The remarkable Leuser ecosystem in Aceh, Sumatra, has faced massive destruction over recent years with rice farms, palm oil, roads and mines, writes Bill Laurance. But that's all set to end with a moratorium on forest clearance that's supported at the highest levels of government, both state and national. This is definitely news to celebrate! But we must also maintain our vigilance.
… Good news for the only place on Earth where tigers, … both state and national. This is definitely news to celebrate! But we must also maintain … and environmental scientists are used to bad news. So when there's some really good news, …
The BBC disgraced its obligation to political impartiality by ignoring the Green Party throughout the recent election campaign, write Morgan Meaker & Bradley Allsop - we should all support calls on the BBC to give the Greens and their policies fair coverage.
… BBC - end your Green Party news blackout! Morgan Meaker Bradley Allsop | … the BBC directly . The petition attacks the news organisation's almost "complete absence … party is repeatedly denied the spotlight by newspapers and news sites, prompting growing …
Japan's government is trying to get its failing nuclear power industry up and running, write Jim Green and Peer de Rijk. But in the post-Fukushima world, it faces formidable obstacles. Experts believe most reactors will never restart - and Japan's stricken utilities may have to find $30 billion or more to finance their decommissioning.
… de Rijk Nuclear Monitor | 26th September 2014 News Japan Nuclear Energy Politics … Shinzo Abe - received some welcome good news this month. On September 10, Japan's … earlier this year by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper found that there was no near-term …
Believers in the possibility of a better civilization, one rooted in increasing co-operation and harmony, find ourselves in a world where demagogues are empowered to bring about the polar opposite, writes Jeremy Leggett. A new despotism rooted in isolationist nationalism and conflict is gaining strength. The battle is not lost: but first we must understand the dangers.
… Jeremy Leggett | 22nd February 2017 News Future Politics Society Technology Energy Media Renewables War trump-fake-news=cut.jpg Believers in the possibility of a … It would be more positive, had the scientific news from the climate itself not been so bad …
Matt Adam Williams explains why yesterday's European Parliament vote will likely have environmentally negative impacts on the other side of the world.....
… Biofuels vote bad news for orangutans Matt Adam Williams | 12th September 2013 News Biofuels Politics Economics orangutan.jpg … of www.shutterstock.com READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS How your fuel bills are …
A consistent pattern is emerging in the UK government's plans and policies, writes Paul Mobbs: the stripping away of human rights and freedoms; the detachment of public institutions from democratic accountability; an increase of the powers of the state; and the empowerment of corporations at the expense of people. We must act to preserve our liberties, while we still can.
… is taking shape Paul Mobbs | 11th June 2015 News Human Rights Politics UK Society Fracking … states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers." … Queen's Speech 2015: Bill-by-bill , BBC News On-line, 27th May 2015 - …
We have a new European Commission - so what does it mean for the environment, GMOs and trade negotiations? Lawrence Woodward can't help feeling that the best part of the package is Commission President Juncker himself. Now, will his 'team' pull together and work to deliver his vision? We can't quite count on it.
… the environment in which we live." More good news - TTIP, Food safety He followed this up … on the altar of free trade." The good news of the appointments is that the Health … been too close to industry . Bad news for agriculture and environment? Other …
Personnel at the EPA have been heavily impacted by the ongoing shutdown, leading some commentators to question the necessity of the government agency post-shutdown. Ben Whitford reports....
… Agency? Ben Whitford | 16th October 2013 News US Government Politics EPA epa-logo.jpg … hard-hit by the shutdown. "There is some good news out of the shutdown, the EPA can't issue … . Follow him @ben_whitford READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS Less than 1 percent of tar-sands …
Following high-level criticisms of the Hinkley C nuclear plant from HSBC and the Chancellor's father in law, EDF, the company in line to build the power station, is fighting back hard, writes Oliver Tickell. But it could all be too late to rescue the doomed project.
… over now? Oliver Tickell | 6th August 2015 News Nuclear Energy Politics Finance China UK … be too late to rescue the doomed project. The news pages this week have been full of … in the UK in October" , according to the newspaper. "More than two thirds of the …
Russia has announced that it will build the first thermal nuclear power station in Kazakhstan, the world's largest uranium producer, writes Komila Nabiyeva. But where in that vast country will it be located? Who will own and operate it? How many reactors are planned? Who will get the power? And will it ever actually happen?
… deepen Komila Nabiyeva | 19th August 2014 News Nuclear Power Russia Kazakhstan Energy … stations." In an interview with the Climate News Network, Svoik confirmed that the MoU on … from the Rosatom press office, told Climate News Network. The signed document mentions the …
Peru is in hot competition with Brazil to be the main focus of Amazonian deforestation, writes Clément Doleac. A neoliberal government desperate to hand over the country's forests, oil, gas, minerals and indigenous lands for corporate exploitation is unafraid to break national laws, turn a blind eye to air and water pollution, and respond to any challenges with overwhelming violence.
… the Amazon Clément Doleac | 5th October 2015 News Peru Forests Land Grabs Indigenous … deforestation in Peru continues' in Forest News CIFOR , on January 9th 2015. Consulted on … deforestation in Peru continues' in Forest News CIFOR , on January 9th 2015. Consulted on …
The US's drive to become a top global oil and gas exporter by fracking has been blown wide open by a 96% write-down of California's Monterey Shale - meant to hold two thirds of the US's shale oil. How long before the whole enterprise is exposed as a monstrous Ponzi scheme?
… scam Dylan Murphy Jo Muphy | 19th June 2014 News Oil USA Fracking Politics … of America's shale oil reserves - is big news. However, this news was overshadowed by the giant mega gas …
With 20 months to go until the next general election, Britain's energy policy debate is already heating up, reports Alex Stevenson.....
… gambit Alex Stevenson | 26th September 2013 News Energy Politics pricefreeze.jpg With 20 … headaches beginning to dominate the news agenda - including an important decision … Follow him @Alex_Stevenson READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS DECC won't back Cameron's …
Journalism in the United States is a dying profession, says Paul Craig Roberts, recipient of the International Award for Excellence in Journalism 2015. Corrupted by corporate wealth and power, and intimidated by a repressive state, the mainstream media have assumed a new role as messengers of fear, hatred and naked aggression that's driving the world to nuclear war.
… Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence … Recently, Brian Williams, the television news anchor at NBC, destroyed his career … as Managing Editor and Anchor of NBC Nightly News. Think about this for a moment. It makes …
A bill to quadruple the UK's aid funding to a profit-driven 'private equity' company owned by the government comes before MPs today for its third reading, writes Global Justice Now. Trouble is the investments do little or nothing for the poor, and instead entrench corporate power in health, education and infrastructure. Parliament should seize this last chance to reject the new law.
… on a briefing by Global Justice Now with news updates by The Ecologist. References 1. … November 2016, http://www.cdcgroup.com/Media/News/NewsNew-CDC-Bill-our-briefing/#sthas… 14. …
Despite record heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are soaring, says a new report, and both are increasing as a matter of government policy. But a homegrown climate action movement is putting a spanner in the works - and just stopped its first coal train.
… Cooke Oliver Tickell | 19th December 2014 News Australia Coal Fossil Fuel Politics … months. Kieran Cooke writes for Climate News Network . Oliver Tickell edits The …
If we are to move beyond the political impasse generated by the IPCC report and prevent catastrophic climate change we must look to market mechanisms, specifically price competitive renewables, writes Oliver Tickell......
… Now what? Oliver Tickell | 2nd October 2013 News Climate Change Ipcc Renewables Carbon Tax … (Zed Books, www.kyoto2.org ) READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS Will the IPCC report spur U.S. … in the US are feeling motivated........ NEWS ANALYSIS The forgotten crisis: Why is no …
The UK's fracking protests are working says Jan Goodey who has been reporting for the Ecologist from Balcombe since the first of the protestors turned up to stop the drills
… Jan Goodey Will Cottrell | 27th August 2013 News Climate Change Fracking Energy Politics … Caroline Lucas, there has been even more bad news for the company in the form of a report … by Jo Makepeace of radical UK direct action news sheet schNEWS : "There is a new tribe …
We live in an age of propaganda by the 'mainstream' media, writes John Pilger. Inconvenient stories, truths and even entire countries are airbrushed away, while dominant narratives are parroted incessantly to bludgeon our minds in acceptance of war, injustice, austerity, all to serve the interests of our ruling elites.
… airbrushed. Or he was vilified. On the BBC's Newsnight programme, the presenter Jeremy … one should doubt the augmented power of his newspapers - all 127 of them, with a combined … propaganda is found not in the Sun or on Fox News - but beneath a liberal halo. When the …
President-elect Trump's widely anticipated appointment of Exxon's CEO Rex Tillerson as new US Secretary of State is creating a government of, by, and for the oil and gas industry, writes Steve Horn.
… Steve Horn DeSmogBlog | 12th December 2016 News Politics Oil Gas Energy Climate Change … the decision likely coming this week. The news comes amid reports that Congressional … And this is 'draining the swamp'? But the news has caused alarm among environmentalists. …
Of 5,500 badgers to be shot during the pilot culls, only 240 will be independently monitored for humaneness, it has emerged. And just 4 Natural England officials will oversee the killing in Gloucestershire and Somerset
… the cull Dominic Dyer | 12th August 2013 News Badger Cull Wildlife Food And Farming … with Care For The Wild READ MORE... NEWS Asian factory farming boom spreading … - to assess their very different approaches NEWS Farmers could be allowed to kill badgers …
As governments in economic difficulties increasingly turn to environmentally damaging extraction industries for quick cash, citizens of those countries are responding with increasingly louder cries of protest. Lorna Howarth reports...........
… Lorna Howarth | 11th September 2013 News Protest Politics Economics Mining … Lorna@resurgence.org READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS The heavy price of Greek gold … opening a rift in a cash-strapped society NEWS ANALYSIS The hidden costs of gold: …
With a government seemingly intent on pushing through the latest road-building programme via its localism agenda campaigners are readying themselves for combined resistance using legal experts, alliance groupings and direct action
… by stealth Jan Goodey | 5th October 2012 News Road Building Government Politics News newbury4.jpg With a government seemingly … a major vote loser.” Jo Makepeace, of radical news-sheet SchNEWS was more interested in the …
The UK's insistence on opening up the UK to fracking is symptomatic of a deeper malaise, writes Paul Mobbs. Of course we need a change of government, but more than that, we need a deeper, enduring change of the nation's governance if we are ever to effect the transition to sustainable policies on energy and environment. It's time for the UK to become truly democratic.
… agenda Paul Mobbs | 21st December 2015 News UK Politics Energy Fracking Regulation … pass without comment. All sorts of unwelcome news came out last Thursday: from the widening … people by removing their benefits. More bad news for the environment Other announcements …