The Chukchi Sea stand-off between environmental and Alaska Native groups and Shell has taken another twist, with a new legal action to stop the oil company’s plans to drill in the region next summer.
Yesterday’s challenge was filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals a group of Native Americans and environmental organisations including the Natural [...]

For those of you who have not seen the film the Age of Stupid, Pete Postlethwaite, puts in a great performance as a despairing  archivist wondering how we allowed the world to be ravaged by climate change.
You could imagine Pete putting in a similar performance as an archivist looking back at how the oil industry [...]

And so it goes on. We may be able to send people to the moon but we are not able to stop a simple leak on an oil rig.
Over two months after Thailand’s PTTEP’s well sprung a leak in the Timor Sea, the oil continues to pour into the sea at a rate of some [...]

The joke going round Europe is that the only reason that President Obama won the Nobel Peace prize is that he is not President Bush. It’s not who he is but who he is not, that matters.
He might not be President Bush but Obama is continuing the mistakes of the Bush era. In fact he [...]

A 4 C rise and counting. By 2060.
That is the message from the UK Met Office in a study prepared for the British Government. Unless there is a radical action on carbon emissions, a catastrophic four degree rise in centigrade (7.2 F) could happen in many people’s live-times.
That is five decades before most people thought [...]