Environment
15 January 2013
London’s Met Office revised its predictions about climate change last week.
04 September 2012
The reality of how devastating storms affect different populations differently can be seen with 1994’s Hurricane Jeanne. Like Isaac, it raged through the Caribbean and the coast of the US.
19 June 2012
The United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainability is set to begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday of this week.
12 June 2012
Activists and academics are preparing for an alternative summit this weekend in advance of the United Nations Rio+20 summit on climate change.
29 May 2012
Enthusiastic meetings of 50 people in London and Manchester wrapped up the Caravan for a Million Climate Jobs tour last Friday.
25 May 2012
The Caravan for Climate Jobs completed its tour of Britain today (Friday) after nearly two weeks of spreading the word about its campaign for one million climate jobs.
22 May 2012
Climate activists are touring Britain with the Caravan for a Million Climate Jobs. Some 30 people attended the caravan’s meeting in Leeds last week, with a similar number turning out in Derby.
15 May 2012
The Campaign Against Climate Change Caravan for a Million Jobs has started a two week tour of Britain. It is demanding jobs to solve both unemployment and climate change.
13 May 2012
Climate campaigners gathered in London and Edinburgh yesterday (Saturday) to wave off the Caravan for a Million Climate Jobs on its tour of Britain.
17 January 2012
Some 200 residents of Balcombe, West Sussex, met on Wednesday of last week to oppose shale gas drilling.
15 December 2011
The United Nations climate talks in Durban, South Africa, have ended. Evil has been done on a scale that is hard to grasp.
13 December 2011
Politicians from around the world last week gave up any attempt to stop global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.
06 December 2011
The UN climate negotiations—the Conference of Parties, or ‘the Cop'—in Durban, South Africa, are deciding to do nothing about climate change for many years to come.
22 November 2011
There will be mass demonstrations outside the United Nations (UN) climate summit in Durban, South Africa, next month.
17 May 2011
Activists debated whether nuclear power has any place in the fight against climate change at a meeting organised by the Campaign Against Climate Change last week.
12 March 2011
The government unveiled its draft Carbon Plan this week. It is supposedly a scheme to tackle climate change, but in reality it is a plan to use the free market to back up business.
14 December 2010
The outcome of last week’s climate conference in the luxury resort of Cancun, Mexico, shows the utter contempt the world’s richest governments have for the planet.
30 November 2010
World leaders are meeting in Cancun, Mexico, this week for the COP 16 climate talks. But they don’t believe these will have any impact.
23 November 2010
Trade unionists, students and climate activists will converge on London on Saturday 4 December as part of a global day of action against climate change. Protesters will call on the government to take action to create a zero carbon Britain. Demonstrators will meet in Hyde Park at 12 noon for a march to parliament.
31 August 2010
The Daily Express newspaper lied about climate change once again this week.