A group of campaigners from Alaska have stepped up their campaign against plans to build one of the world’s largest goldmines by buying shares in Anglo American
Alaskan fishermen to fight mining giant at its own AGM The Ecologist | 18th April 2010 News Energy Natural World Mining Alaska Share Holder bristol bay watershed.jpg Campaigners say an 86-mile access …
Climate activists stage mass protest outside headquarters of tar sands funder RBS as campaigners urge holidaymakers to boycott Canada
Tar sands campaign targets holidaymakers and pension funds The Ecologist | 20th August 2010 News Oil Tar Sands Energy Climate Change tarsands1.jpg A landscape created by a love of oil in Alberta, …
Nuclear industry's need for subsidies rather than political opposition remains main obstacle to building of a new generation of power plants in the UK
Finance, not politics, the main obstacle to nuclear, say campaigners The Ecologist | 14th May 2010 News Nuclear Energy Politics And Economics nuclearpower.jpg No nuclear power stations will be built …
Greenpeace's 'Unfriend Coal' campaign is calling on the world's biggest social networking site to free its energy-intensive business from coal power
Just how green is Facebook? The Ecologist | 5th April 2011 Other Climate Change Coal Facebook Greenpeace Video Energy facebook-480x360.jpg Greenpeace's 'Unfriend Coal' campaign is calling on the …
'We all live in Khimki Forest' has become the rallying cry of a local forest defense campaign. Goldman Prize winner Evgenia Chirikova describes what it's like to be green in Russia the why a culture of impunity and corruption risks destroying the country's natural heritage
… who is facing five years of imprisonment for campaigning for environmental protection for …
Ukraine's state-owned nuclear generator is suing anti-nuclear activists in its latest attempt to stifle public debate over the country's ageing fleet of 15 nuclear reactors, while refusing to release information in breach of international obligations.
… Ecoclub-Rivne, NECU and others - have been campaigning since more than five years for of …
Damning Indian government report says British-owned mining company’s plans should be blocked, as two local tribal campaigners are abducted
Vedanta ‘in total contempt of the law’ says Indian government The Ecologist | 17th August 2010 News Vedanta Mining Energy Natural World 37405.jpg There have been numerous meetings of tribal …
Climate change minister urges more urgent cuts to greenhouse gas emissions while allowing renewed push for oil in remote regions
Huhne accused of 'hypocrisy' for promoting offshore oil in Scotland and Arctic The Ecologist | 4th March 2011 News Oil Energy Climate Change Arctic Renewables shetlands.jpg The UK recently approved …
Sanctions and legal action against BP unlikely to prevent further oil spill, say environmental groups that argue the US needs to cut its ties with oil industry
BP criminal action will not safeguard against oil spills, say campaigners The Ecologist | 3rd June 2010 News Oil Bp Energy Natural World OIl Spill oilspillbpmexico.jpg The US Department of Justice …
The aviation industry deserves credit for being proactive about looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, says Paul Steele from the Air Transport Action Group
Campaigners should support aviation industry biofuel trials The Ecologist | 20th April 2011 Comment Aviation Airlines Jathropa Biofuels Energy jatrophaaa1.jpg Aviation industry demand for biofuels …
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
UK to pay public for generating green energy - but will it be enough? The Ecologist | 1st February 2010 News Renewables Energy Electricity Solar Wind Biogas Biomass solarinstalling.jpg A similar …
Study contradicts Alberta government and industry claims that pollutants are from natural sources and not from the expanding production of oil from tar sands
Canada tar sands industry ignoring toxic river pollution The Ecologist | 1st September 2010 News Tar Sands Oil Energy Climate Change Canada tarsands.jpg Study findings back up the protests by …
Campaigners say the Government is underestimating the potential of small-scale renewable electricity generation in the UK
Feed-in tariffs in danger of being watered down The Ecologist | 30th November 2009 News Energy Soalr Power Renewables Renewable Electricity solar1.jpg Campaigners say the Government is …
Local residents say they have been ‘insulted’ rather than ‘consulted’ over Government plans for new nuclear power stations
UK Government nuclear consultation ‘farcical’, say locals The Ecologist | 29th January 2010 News Nuclear Energy Planning Consultation nuclearpower.jpg Residents have complained about receiving 10 …
In a dramatic decision this morning, Lancashire county councillors voted 9:3 to reject Cuadrilla's planning application to frack at Preston New Road, defying the warnings of their own planning officers.
… and across the UK who have been tirelessly campaigning against fracking will breathe a … we must invest. "The Green Party will keep campaigning until fracking is banned in the …
European Commission guidance would allow biofuels to be labelled as sustainable even if forests have been destroyed to make way for the palm oil plantations
Palm oil plantations could be classified as forests The Ecologist | 8th February 2010 News Renewables Palm Oil Plantations Energy Biofuels palmoillogging.jpg The EU is currently deciding upon its …
Campaigners have criticised the Environment Agency for not requiring a new wood-chip power plant in South Wales to reuse its waste heat
Biomass plant gets go-ahead but will not use waste heat The Ecologist | 2nd October 2009 News Biomass Combined Heat And Power Energy porttalbot.jpg Campaigners have criticised the Environment Agency …
So much methane is bubbling into a river surrounded by hundreds of fracking wells that it's a fire hazard! Local campaigners blame the coal seam gas industry for the gas releases which are spreading along Queensland's river Condamine and gaining in intensity.
Australian river on fire with fracked coal seam gas The Ecologist | 22nd April 2016 News Fracking Australia Fossil Fuels Gas Climate Change Energy jeremy buckingham river fire and boat-cut.jpg So …
A higher tariff for green electricity generation would help the UK catch up with the rest of Europe
10p to create a solar power sector in UK The Ecologist | 29th September 2009 News Renewable Energy Solar Power Energy Feed-in Tariffs indiasolarplan.jpg The UK lags badly behind the rest of Europe …
Green leader Caroline Lucas will today use a Campaign to Protect Rural England lecture to call for urgent action to resolve conflicting land use issues
Lucas: sustainability requires urgent planning reform The Ecologist | 9th July 2009 News Take Action Investigations Food And Farming Green Party Caroline Lucas CPRE Transport Emissions Renewables …
Oil companies planning 'billion-pound blunder' into environmentally damaging tar sands production in Canada, says Co-op/WWF report
Tar sands money could pay for desert solar or electric cars The Ecologist | 16th March 2010 News Tar Sands Oil Climate Change Energy refinerypic.jpg A tar sands oil production refinery in Alberta, …
Environmental groups in Germany, Finland and Denmark claim gas pipeline will devastate the Baltic Sea's already fragile marine ecosystem
Gas pipeline through contaminated Baltic given go-ahead The Ecologist | 19th February 2010 News Energy Baltic Sea Marine Renewables balticpipeline.jpg Environmental groups in Germany, Finland and …
So-called extreme energy - including fracking, coal bed methane extraction and underground coal gasification - is being rolled out with little concern for the environment, leading campaigner, author and engineer Paul Mobbs tells the Ecologist Film Unit
Underground coal gasification: the 'nuclear option' of unconventional energy The Ecologist | 23rd September 2013 News Fracking Energy Comment Climate Change Politics And Economics what-the-frack.jpg …