Iraq’s parliament will re-start negotiations next month on the country’s controversial oil law, according to Khaled al-Attiya, the deputy speaker.
Attiya said the parliament would take its time to discuss the draft oil law, but he expected it to pass before the end of the year. Attiya, a senior member in the ruling Shi’ite Alliance, has […]

The BBC is under fire for dropping an awareness-raising programme on climate change.
The scrapping of the programme, Planet Relief, an awareness-raising broadcast similar in concept to programmes such as the poverty-focused Comic Relief and Live8, and planned for early next year, is a real cop-out by the BBC.
Environmentalists and politicians have rightly criticised the BBC […]

We know that the Bush administration has consistently tried to water down policy documents on climate change, both home and abroad.
Now there is evidence that the White House’s pointman at the bank, the now disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, personally intervened to remove the words “climate change” from the title of a bank progress report and ordered […]

Former Vice President Al Gore has criticised some of the world’s largest oil companies, including Exxon for continuing to fund climate sceptics as part of a campaign to mislead the public.
“There has been an organized campaign, financed to the tune of about $10 million a year from some of the largest carbon polluters, to create […]

The sceptics must be choking on their corn-flakes this morning, as one of their main arguments to counter the mainstream consensus about climate change has yet again been shot down in flames.
In building their argument that human activity is not to blame for climate change, the sceptics have argued that the current warming is just […]