The battle of a third runway at Heathrow in the UK is really intensifying.
Now the British Government Agency in charge of environmental issues - the Environment Agency - has added its weight to the growing criticism by saying the government has failed to prove that expansion plans will not breach EU rules on air pollution.

Flooded highways, railroads and airport runways are among the transportation snarls looming as the world’s climate changes, and officials should plan with this in mind, a U.S. study says.
“We’re not just concerned about gradual changes in temperatures,” said Henry Schwartz, who chaired the National Research Council panel that wrote the report. “We’re mostly concerned about […]

When people do not know about a problem, it is difficult to expect them to act. The problem comes when they do no about a problem but then do nothing. Take the issue of climate change and flying.
Climate change’s threat to the existence of the exotic resorts and beaches tourists crave has not dented […]

Environmental groups are accusing UK Prime Minster, Gordon Brown of the “Great Green Betrayal”. They are arguing that his government’s green policies are standing still or even going backwards.
First, environmental taxation, which could help curb greenhouse gas emissions and much other pollution, is actually falling rather than rising – and falling substantially, a powerful all-party […]

The world’s first commercial aircraft powered partly by biofuel took off from Heathrow yesterday to a storm of criticism from climate change experts, who insisted it was nothing more than Sir Richard Branson’s latest “nonsensical” publicity stunt.
The Virgin Atlantic 747 flew from London to Amsterdam using a 20 per cent biofuel mix of coconut and […]