The giant waves that hit Cornwall's coast this weekend form part of a long term trend, writes Tim Radford. Extreme weather linked to global warming is leading to more violent and more frequent storms devastating beaches, ports, infrastructure and coastal communities on Europe's exposed Atlantic coastlines.
… England was lashed yesterday by strong winds and giant waves, with Cornwall taking the brunt of the fierce weather. Huge winds swept in over coastal town seafronts, …
With the UK's Hinkley Point deal hanging in the balance, a new study casts fresh doubts over future of nuclear energy in Europe, writes JAMES HAKNER
… countries have been much slower to implement wind, solar and hydropower technologies and to … expense of more radical technologies, such as wind or solar. Professor Benjamin Sovacool, …
On the day Obama bans Artic Offshore Drilling, RUPERT READ predicts a 'volte face' by the climate-change-denying President Elect, Donald Trump. But if this were to happen, would it make things better or worse?
… warn you about something that might take the wind out of our sails, something which might … persona and stance. And it could take the wind out of the sails of a remarkable number … Be prepared for this. Don't let the wind be taken out of your sails. People are so …
JP Morgan's announcement that it's pulling out of coal is purest doublespeak, writes Assaad Razzouk. But it's not the only financier to engage in climate hypocrisy, as banks prepare to lend $5 trillion to build 2,440 new coal power stations. To deliver the Paris Agreement they - and the loans that would finance them - must be cancelled.
… is endowed with lots of free sun and free wind as well as large water resources. With … they were prepared to provide to new solar or wind power plants. And the same holds true in …
The massive methane leak at Aliso Canyon in California tell sus everything that's wrong with fossil fuels, writes Pete Dronkers: toxic, under-regulated, unsafe, and climate destroying. But the catastrophe also brings us a timely message: this is the time for the California, the US, and the world, to begin a rapid transition away from fossil fuels and into our clean, green, renewable future.
… from the leak is being blown by prevailing winds right into their community of Porter … a plume nearly 1,000 feet high under calmer wind conditions. The pilot can't help but note …
Koide Hiroaki has spent his entire career as a nuclear engineer, and has become a central figure in Japan's movement for the abolition of nuclear power plants. He met with Katsuya Hirano and Hirotaka Kasai to discuss the catastrophic nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daaichi in March 2011, and the crimes and cover-ups committed both before and after the event.
… American coast, and the prevailing westerly winds will carry anything released into the … of this material will ride the prevailing winds across the Pacific Ocean. On the other hand, closer to the ground, the winds will be east, south, and north, and …
As the global assault on indigenous lands intensifies, the world's largest conservation group, the IUCN, has just voted at its World Conservation Congress for the sacred natural sites and territories of indigenous peoples to be recognised as 'No-Go Areas' for destructive industrial scale activities, writes Hal Rhoades - and for corporations to permanently withdraw from such areas.
… agricultural expansion, industrial-scale wind and solar power, and other extractive … "By adopting this measure the IUCN has blown wind into the sails of indigenous campaigns … By adopting this measure the IUCN has blown wind into the sails of indigenous campaigns …
Renewable electricity is already undermining the big energy utilities' business model, writes Emma Howard, breaking their monopoly and bringing down energy bills. But with the unfolding battery revolution, it's going to reach a whole new level as wind and solar powered families and communities become ever more self-sufficient, leaving utilities high and dry.
… it's going to reach a whole new level as wind and solar powered families and … went negative during a particularly sunny and windy May day and firms had to pay consumers … is to use surplus renewable electricity from wind and solar to produce hydrogen, a valuable …
The French and the Chinese may be celebrating the UK's decision to press ahead with the Hinkley C 'nuclear white elephant', writes Oliver Tickell. But the deal is a disaster for the UK, committing us to overpriced power for decades to come, and to a dirty, dangerous, insecure dead end technology. Just one silver lining: major economic, legal and technical hurdles mean it still may never be built.
… even high-cost renewable power from offshore wind; security concerns over China's … be doing all it can to support offshore wind, energy efficiency and innovative new …
The greatest myth of the consumer society is that modern lifestyles are 'normal' - and this can continue forever because we're clever little apes who can solve any problem, writes Paul Mobbs. That hubris, in the face of insurmountable ecological limits, will be our collective downfall.
… on use. For example, the large, direct-drive wind turbines which are the core of expanding wind power are reliant on the use of rare … limited supply - which limits the roll-out of wind power well below the theoretical wind …
Next April the UK government proposes to increase taxes on self-consumed solar electricity installations on schools, offices, warehouses and factories by a whopping 6-8 times, write the STA and undersigned. This inexplicable move, which threatens a once thriving solar industry already on its knees, must be abandoned.
… Kronos Solar Dr Elaine Booth, CEO, Greenside Wind Energy Ltd and Bruxiehill Wind Energy Ltd Paul Robinson, CEO, Ednie Wind Energy Ltd and Ednie Farms Christian …
EDF's unfolding fiasco over the Hinkley C nuclear power station proves that nuclear power can come only at enormous financial cost to consumers and taxpayers, writes Caroline Lucas - and even then, investors are scared off by the risks. The government must get over its nuclear obsession and seize our renewable future.
… cost - to the Government and to you and I. Wind power, even with backup, is cheaper than … for nuclear power verses solar power, onshore wind and other renewable technologies. In the …
Given the long list of technical and financial problems afflicting the Hinkley C power plant, writes David Thorpe, the Labour Party's continuing support for the over-priced, highly subsidised project is increasingly paradoxical. Labour must take a fresh look at HPC and the renewable alternatives that can do better at far lower cost.
… being delivered by 40GW of new nuclear, wind and clean coal and gas power - equivalent … which is much more than the cost of offshore wind power at £140 per MWh or that of onshore wind power at less than £90 MWh." British …
With the election of a 'climate hoaxer' to the US presidency James Dyke's normal optimism that we will deal with climate change in time to avoid the most catastrophic impacts has run out. Now his fears are compounded by the likely appointment of the US's leading climate change denier to run the EPA.
… even more reliance on them. Candles in the wind This an example of the intergenerational …
The UK imports millions of tons of American wood pellets every year to be burned in power stations for 'climate friendly' electricity, writes Matt Williams. But his recent visit to the southern US showed him that this practice is devastating beautiful, natural forests rich in wildlife - while the UK government's own research shows that it's worse for the climate than the coal it replaces.
… think of green, low impact technologies like wind and solar. But in fact, 72% of the … such as coal, natural gas, nuclear and wind." Many argue that if the overall size of …
The EDF board is meeting tomorrow to reach its 'final investment decision' on Hinkley C. It was meant to be a rubber stamp but now it's anything but, as EDF's share price sinks to a new low, unions and employee directors harden their opposition to the project, and projects in France, Finland and China run way over time and cost with severe technical problems and safety concerns.
… of this is very unclear : the cost of onshore wind is now cheaper than the proposed Hinkley … analysis. And major companies in offshore wind development, Vattenfall and Statkraft , … cheaper energy sources such as onshore wind that could be subsidy free" , says Dr …
Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG), an anti-fracking group held their national gathering in the heart of Australia's Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry where the ‘Nannas' workshopped ways of evading arrest, media strategies, avoiding defaming energy companies, lawful protest, successful campaigns, protest songs and nanna naps. MAXINE NEWLANDS joined them for the gathering
… under construction. A Change in the Political Wind? Australia's southern state of Victoria, …
If we are ever to bring bovine TB under control in Britain's cattle herd, we must begin with the main disease reservoir, writes Tom Langton: the cattle themselves. The insistence on culling badgers has little to do with disease control, and everything to do with the short term economics of the beef and dairy industries, unwilling to sacrifice an iota of production in the interests of a real solution.
… Can it be ten years since the RBCT began winding up its field work and an Independent …
Anti-EU sentiment and climate change denialism go hand in hand, writes Kyla Mandel. But why? Partly it's down to a belief in unconstrained national sovereignty and economic freedom - threatened by the EU and climate change alike. But it's also because out of the EU, the UK could advance the anti-environment agenda the deniers so passionately believe in, with no one to get in the way.
… EU UK Climate Change Regulation Politics wind-copenhagen-cut.jpg Anti-EU sentiment and …
The EU is already paying farmers and landowners for creating and maintaining valuable habitats, write Dominic Hogg & Luke Dale-Harris. But could the UK do better by creating markets in 'ecosystem services' that would put financial value on clean water, key wildlife habitats, endangered species and precious landscapes?
… of artifice as a Constable painting or the Wind in the Willows. And that artifice has …
The UK's latest carbon budget was well-received, even by environmentalists, write Kate Scott & Marco Sakai. But that's only because they didn't look hard enough. The Paris Agreement hugely elevated ambition to achieve even a 2C temperature rise limit - and the UK's effort is nowhere near the mark.
… now rely largely on an unprecedented boost in wind farms, solar energy and biomass power, … risky and unproven technologies . While huge wind farms, tidal lagoons and so on are …
Forty years ago workers at Lucas Aerospace created a detailed plan to transition out of the arms industry and into green, sustainable products and technologies, writes David King. it never happened, yet the Lucas Plan provides a blueprint for similar initiatives today to build a deep-rooted, broad-based movement for social, economic and ecological progress.
… Amongst their ahead-of-their-time ideas were wind turbines, heat pumps, and hybrid car …
Eight years ago the first exploration applications for unconventional gas extraction were submitted in South Africa. Last week fracking finally received official attention from South Africa's legislature during a debate that revealed how the country's different political parties gauge the benefits and risks linked to the drilling technique. JASPER FINKELDEY was at that debate.
… untapped potential of power generated from wind, solar and waves. Last Thursday's debate … untapped potential of power generated from wind, solar and waves …
Bananas are at the sharp end of industrial agriculture's chemical war on pests and pathogens, writes Angelina Sanderson Bellamy. But even 60 pesticide sprays a year isn't enough to keep the diseases at bay. It's time to seek new solutions with little or no use of chemicals, working with nature, growing diverse crops on the same land - and breaking the dominance of the banana multinationals.
… as complex as soil particles blowing on the wind across long distances - even across …