Environment
18 March 2014
Public transport was made free in a number of French and Belgian cities last week, as an emergency measure to deal with air pollution. Paris also imposed restrictions on car use. Paris has the fourth worst average air quality of any city in the world. Last week’s weather briefly made it number one—despite the media’s fixation on pollution in China.
18 March 2014
Around 250 people protested last Sunday in Farndon Bridge, near Chester, against Dart Energy’s plans to drill there.
11 March 2014
An anti-fracking camp faces eviction despite a big demonstration in its support, reports Katrina Lawrie
11 March 2014
Environment Agency (EA) boss Paul Leinster pulled out of a meeting last week to discuss job cuts with EA staff unions. These include Unison, GMB, Unite and PCS.
04 March 2014
Fresh flood warnings were issued for the whole South West coast of England this week. Most of the Somerset Levels have remained underwater for yet another month. Many homes are still flooded.
04 March 2014
Socialist Workers Party member and author Martin Empson was set to debate officials from fracking firm Cuadrilla on Monday of this week
18 February 2014
Politicians say “we” must change our ways to save the planet—but Sadie Robinson argues waste is built into capitalism
11 February 2014
Now that parts of their beloved Eton College are under flood water, you might expect even the Tories to get serious about climate change.
11 February 2014
Services cut by politicians would have protected tens of thousands of people, writes Dave Sewell
11 February 2014
Floods and storms swept over wide areas of southern England, Wales and the Midlands last week.
28 January 2014
Over 300 people poured into a meeting in Burry Port, Llanelli, to voice their anger and concern about plans for underground coal gasification (UCG) in the Loughor Estuary.
28 January 2014
IGas is looking for gas near Salford—but opposition is growing, writes Katherine Jacobs
21 January 2014
With freezing weather confining millions of Americans to their homes for days on end recently, you’d think their TV news would want to discuss climate change. But you’d be wrong.
14 January 2014
David Cameron has announced a bribe worth up to £1.7 million a year in business rates to councils that allow fracking for shale gas.
07 January 2014
Daily protests against exploratory drilling for fracking, or shale gas extraction, are continuing at Barton Moss in Eccles, Greater Manchester.
07 January 2014
The weather has always been difficult to predict. But the past week has been particularly dramatic.
10 December 2013
Martin Empson, author of a new book on ecology and human history, argues that human action is key to the possibility of a sustainable solution to ecological crises
03 December 2013
Around 60 people came together to resist the plans of iGas to extract coal methane and then begin fracking at Barton Moss in Eccles, Greater Manchester.
19 November 2013
As the latest United Nations climate conference takes place Martin Empson examines why governments are so feeble in their efforts to challenge global warming
15 October 2013
Activists from around the world plan to converge on Warsaw in Poland to protest as world leaders assemble for the next climate conference next month.