The US is starting to break its “addiction” to foreign oil as high prices, more efficient cars, and the use of ethanol significantly cut the share of its oil imports for the first time since the late seventies.
According to a report in today’s Financial Times, the country’s foreign oil dependency is expected to fall from […]

Nearly every day we get another warning over the impact climate change is having on the world’s wildlife. As the predictions get ever gloomier, soon species will become extinct before the world has acted.
The latest assessment is on birds. Climate change is “significantly amplifying” the threats facing the world’s bird populations, a global assessment […]

As the world rapidly runs out of oil, one place seems to be swimming in the stuff, and no prizes for guessing who that is …
Iraq has dramatically increased the official size of its oil reserves after new data suggested that they could exceed Saudi Arabia’s and be the largest in the world.

Two different stories from separate parts of the world, but one underlying trend that signals just how bad the energy crunch has become. It may be the price of oil that is grabbing the headlines but you should also keep an eye on what is happening to gas.
The Emirates may have been built on […]

Never trust a politician over climate change, that’s the lesson of this story.
Britain’s £800m international project to help the poorest countries in the world adapt to climate change has come under fire after it emerged that almost all the money offered will have to be repaid with interest.