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Published in: HomeClimate change: canary to ghostThe oil-and-gas industry is impervious to extreme weather events, from the Philippines to Sardinia. But both...
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Published in: openSecuritySharing our future: how the world can avert climate chaosThe latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report calculated a ‘budget’ for greenhouse gas emissions if...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDivestment and ending sponsorship - both tools of oil company stigmatisationThe campaign launched in the UK this month to get institutions to divest from fossil fuel companies is an easy...
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Published in: HomeThe climate cliff: nuclear echoes
During the cold war, nuclear near-catastrophe provoked an enlightened political response. Will history be repeated...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNo, Minister - you are not spending what is needed on flood defencesLast night, Owen Paterson, the UK Secretary of State for the Environment, claimed that he has not cut funding for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHas conference season changed anything?Last week, UK party conference season finished. This week, leading figures from various perspectives will tell us...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKValues, not just science, need to be central to the climate change debateToo many environmental activists try to persuade people about climate change by dazzling them with research of the...
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Published in: HomeHow to deflate the carbon bubble
The fossil fuel industry hurts the climate – and the economy. In Norway, environmentalists and labour union...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat would Attenborough say about the Irish genocide?The exploitation of the Irish economy during the potato famine caused widespread devastation. With the justification...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe hypocrisy of the badger cullThe badger cull seeks the reduction of tuberculosis in our farmers' livestock, but are badgers the real cause of...
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Published in: HomeThe IPCC and new climate paths
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a unique public service that produces valuable scientific...
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Published in: TransformationThe green machine of Copenhagen
When machines break down, don't throw them away, fix them. Anders Koefoed has declared war on “planned...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs fracking all we have to worry about?As protests against fracking rage on, are protesters ignoring a much greater industrial threat to the British countryside?
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Published in: HomeThe great biofuel greenwashThe petroleum giants have been pushing a wave of biofuel advertising. But the nature of such fuel is complex, and...
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Published in: TransformationNaked in the flat
Could you live without any belongings? Helsinki-based Petri Luukainen took radical action to conquer the clutter of...
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Published in: HomeThe global climate cliff
A combination of extreme weather events and a coming temperature rise may be enough to induce the serious political...
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Published in: HomeWeather and humanity remain unpredictableAs a new IPCC assessment is being prepared, head climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri is an optimist - but human...
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Published in: TransformationElemental Dr Watson?Michael Edwards explores a new documentary about three people who are confronting environmental degradation in a...
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Published in: HomeNo control panelStruck by malevolent storms our Sunday Comics columnist finds the ardour and expense of repairs compounded by the...
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Published in: HomeThe great tide of 31 January 1953An enormous surge of water over the coastal lands of south-east England sixty years ago took hundreds of lives and...
