Australia's prime minister thinks climate change is 'crap' and has just abolished his country's carbon-pricing system. But scientists say that it's rising levels of CO2 that are leaving the south of the country parched and sweltering - and it's only going to get worse.
… even now, in the Australian winter, New South Wales is being hit by bush fires . Tom …
Owen Paterson's departure from Government could see the end of the hated badger culls and a wider return to environmental sanity, writes Lesley Docksey. Given his disbelief in climate change and his arrogant disregard of science, it's not a moment too soon!
… and ongoing reduction of bovine TB in Wales through proper controls. Farmers have … decline in tuberculosis that we are seeing in Wales, where the infection is being brought …
Reversing the Environment Agency cuts, tightening planning rules for flood plains, holding rainwater back in upland catchments ... all part of the Green Party's new ten-point flood management and resilience plan.
… plan. The Green Party of England & Wales has today launched the following …
As composer Jonathan Dove prepares for the premiere of his 'Gaia Theory' at the BBC Proms this month, he explains to Laurence Rose how his recent work has been inspired by a wake-up call - right from the very top of the world.
… Pinocchio to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. He writes music with immediate broad …
A partnership between an Oxford-based social enterprise and the local Council provides a blueprint for financing community energy projects, writes Wendy Twist. And with £2.3 million in the bank, things are really starting to move ...
… corporate sponsorship. At the Prince of Wales Business Leaders' Forum she directed an … programme launched by HRH The Prince of Wales before joining Forum for the Future to …
Politicians are forever citing 'terror' as a reason to expand the security state and restrict civil liberties, writes Paul Mobbs. But when it comes to the real threats that face the world - ecological breakdown, climate disruption, resource crises, and an unjust and rapacious world order ... well, that's all 'green crap'. Isn't it?
… deaths caused by terrorism in England and Wales over this period compares with total …
A gathering of civil society and social movements in Venezuela concluded last week with a strong demand for climate justice, writes Maruška Mileta. Rich countries must stop passing off their 'false solutions' - from nuclear power to geoengineering - and pay the costs of a rapid transition to low-carbon world that brings renewable energy to all.
… Rehman from Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) said during the …
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.
… much of Queensland and parts of New South Wales are already drought-declared. Resistance …
Antarctica is a desolate place. That much we know, but nothing prepares you for it until you actually get there, writes Erik can Sebille, recently escaped from an icy imprisonment.
… Oceanographer at the University of New South Wales. He receives funding from the Australian …
Last night's speech on Britain's energy choices by former environment secretary Owen Paterson's caused widespread outrage long before it was delivered. But what exactly did he say on the night? Read on, and be surprised to discover that it makes excellent sense - in parts.
… would wall-to-wall carpet Northern Ireland, Wales, Belgium, Holland and Portugal combined. …
What do the Australian Environment Foundation, the Renewable Energy Foundation and the Global Warming Policy Foundation have in common? They are all fiercely anti-environment, writes William Laurance - and we must beware their 'eco-doublespeak'.
Beware environmental wolves in sheep's clothing! William Laurance | 9th June 2014 Activism Climate Change Forests Politics Campaigning Renewables Energy UK Australia Media sheep-wolf-teeth-cut.jpg …
It's time for the Government to get serious about the flooding - and the climate change that is driving it, says Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett. Cameron should begin by dredging the muck out of his own Cabinet.
… is the Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales . The government's energy policy …
The Government has let down Britain with its repeated failures to seize the opportunities of green growth, healthy local food, better housing, environmental protection - and is instead pinning all its hopes on flawed, outmoded ideologies that betray our futures.
… is Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales. Few of us ever quite believed the …
The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record, according to preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Their latest report, issued today at the UN climate talks in Lima, shows exceptional heat and flooding in many parts of the world.
… At the start of the year, northeast New South Wales and southeast Queensland in Australia …
The Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture made its high-profile launch at the New York Climate Summit. But for a huge coalition of civil society organizations, it's a 'greenwash' initiative designed to promote intensive profit-driven industrial agriculture at the expense of small farmers, environment, and the real solutions.
… Russia Friends of the Earth - England, Wales & Northern Ireland Friends of the Earth …
The new Manchester Airport Enterprise Zone is causing the piecemeal environmental destruction of Green Belt countryside, reports Rose Bridger - all sacrificed to an archaic vision of fossil-powered economic growth.
… roads are among 600 throughout England and Wales that were planned, then abandoned, in …