Greenpeace UK as a core member of the Big If coalition sends a video to Ed Milliband – NO to dirty coal. What will you do for the Big If?
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Climate
New research by the American Psychological Association suggests helplessness is one of the reasons of inaction towards climate change.
Flooding is common in the world’s largest remaining tropical wilderness, but this year the waters rose higher and stayed longer than they have in decades. Experts suspect global warming may be driving wild climate swings that appear to be punishing the Amazon with increasing frequency…
Not every barrel of oil has the same carbon footprint – some extraction processes radically increase the amount of greenhouse gases which are released. A report from Greenpeace singles out Shell as the most carbon intensive oil company in the world…
Less than three weeks away from the European elections, the dilemmas facing Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party, are daunting. If she campaigns on climate change alone, she demotes her party to the status of a single-issue outfit…
In a thought-provoking video Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, makes a passionate and personal analysis of the energy crisis. If we’re to wean ourselves off our addiction to fossil fuel we need to reduce our energy consumption significantly…
Global warming is likely to overshoot a 2C (3.6F) rise, which is seen by the EU and many developing nations as a trigger for dangerous climate change. Experts also said the evidence that human activity is to blame for climate change had grown stronger in the past two years…
An ice bridge linking the Wilkins Ice Shelf, in Antarctica, has snapped. Scientists say the collapse could mean the ice shelf, which is the size of Jamaica, is on the brink of breaking away and provides further evidence of rapid change in the region…
A last-ditch effort is being made to insert clearer green commitments into the global economic recovery package being discussed at the G20 summit. The move comes amid fears that the G20 summit is in danger of missing a unique opportunity…
