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Cancun climate summit fails to agree successor to Kyoto Protocol
Tom Levitt
12th December, 2010
Major industrialised powers claim progress has been made towards a legally-binding agreement but campaigners warn new deal will be 'weak' and 'wholly inadaquate' in preventing climate change more...
Addicted to frack: the dirty gas drilling coming to a field near you
Ecologist
7th December, 2010
Exclusive film examining the bitter fall out from gas extraction in the US involving a process known as hydraulic fracturing - or fracking. And it's coming to Europe... more...
Europe's scramble for gas sees controversial hydraulic fracturing cross the Atlantic
Luke Starr
30th November,2010
In the US, gas-extraction in the Marcellus Shale has been linked to pollution and social conflict. Now Halliburton, Chevron and Exxon, among others, want to bring the so-called 'fracking' process to Europe, reports Luke Starr more...
US natural gas drilling boom linked to pollution and social strife
Jim Wickens
30th November, 2010
The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights more...
How to have sex (sustainably and ethically)
Eifion Rees
9th November, 2010
Kicking off a new series of 'how to...' we show you the most satisfying way to 'green up' your lovemaking between the sheets. Now relax, lie back and think of the Ecologist… more...
Campaigners issue warning on refrigerant emissions
Dearbhla Crosse
October 27th, 2010
UK efforts to combat ozone-depleting CFC gases has seen supermarkets and other refrigerant users switch to a problematic alternative in HFCsmore...
Why 'eco-friendly' heat pumps increase, not reduce, your carbon footprint
Eric Johnson
8th October, 2010
Switch to heat pumps to warm your home and you'll qualify for the Renewable Heat Incentive subsidy. But new research reveals the pumps release potent hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases, says Eric Johnson, significantly increasing the true carbon footprint of this supposedly green technologymore...
US climate sceptics fail to stop carbon emissions being labelled danger to health
Ecologist
30th July, 2010
Campaigners say ruling 'opens the door' to the US to limit carbon emissions from industry under existing laws and removes the need to force through new bitterly opposed climate legislation more...
Greening my office: I got them to switch the heating off!
Sylvia Sunshine
9th July, 2010
Sylvia scores her first eco success - persuading her sceptical boss that heating an unoccupied portion of the office is a terrible waste of resources more...
Let's stop people scamming billions from the carbon market
Fionnuala Walravens
8th April, 2010
It was a loophole that most of us thought had been sewn up. But new research shows that companies are continuing to cash in on the 'super' greenhouse gas HFC-23 more...
Installing a biogas digester
Ecologist
23rd February, 2010
This gallery of images shows the simple, low-tech processes involved in turning organic wastes into a clean-burning, forest-preserving cooking fuel more...
UK to pay public for generating green energy - but will it be enough?
Ecologist
1st February, 2010
Campaign groups believe the payments will be too low to encourage significant numbers of people to install small scale renewable energy in their homes and communities more...
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Greenpeace calls for a ban on Arctic oil drilling
Ecologist
25th January, 2010
Immediate moratorium on all activity by oil and gas industries would help safeguard the local community and ecosystem as well as reduce potential carbon emissions more...
Face up to natural limits, or face a 1970s-style energy crisis
Paul Mobbs
19th January, 2010
None of the various technofixes on offer alter the fact that humanity has to learn to stop living on the last drops of cheap energy, and to start living within its means more...
Carbon emissions: the world in 2010
Tom Levitt
23rd December, 2009
A post-Copenhagen look at where the carbon emissions are coming from and how that is projected to change over the coming decade more...
'Green' gas supply for homeowners
Ecologist
22nd November, 2009
UK energy company promises to use gas from food waste and sewage to provide homes with 'green' gas supplies more...
We should all know how RBS spends our money
Dan Box
26th October, 2009
Officials can sternly lecture the City on its excesses as much as they like: when it comes to actually regulating it, politicians just don't care. And don't want us to know... more...
National Grid plan for local waste-to-biogas plants
Ecologist
8th October, 2009
Electricity operator National Grid believes that with the right Government incentives, renewable gas could be produced from our waste and fed straight into the mains more...
Councils accused of ignoring biogas
Ecologist
7th August, 2009
Find out if your council is about to waste your waste in favour of incinerators with our interactive map more...
Biogas: is your council about to waste your waste?
David Strahan
4th August, 2009
Biogas - a methane-rich fuel made from rotting food waste or sewage - has huge potential as a clean, green fuel for the UK. But a perverse web of subsidies, rules and contracts could mean UK councils are about to kiss goodbye to the real power of waste... more...
ExxonMobil and Venter sign $600 million algae biofuel deal
Ecologist
15th July, 2009
Oli giant ExxonMobil has signed a $600 million deal with controversial genome scientist J Craig Venter to develop biofuels made from algae more...
Turkish dam project scrapped, but pipeline gets go-ahead
Ecologist
13th July, 2009
Turkey's plans for a hydroelectric dam on the Tigris have been scrapped as Europe withdraws funds for a failure to meet environmental obligations, while plans for the trans-Europe Nabucco gas pipeline are ratified more...
Change farming to cut CO2 emissions by 25 per cent
Eifion Rees
3rd July, 2009
A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year more...
Legal challenge to Treasury over RBS investments
Ecologist
2nd July, 2009
A green coalition has brought a legal challenge against the Treasury for refusing to rein-in the Government-owned RBS bank, which continues to invest in polluting industries more...
Industrial nations must tackle deforestation at Copenhagen, say MPs
Ecologist
30th June, 2009
A Commons environmental audit committee has called for industrialised nations to change their patterns of consumption if alarming rates of global deforestation are to be arrested and reversed more...Members
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