President Trump's recent executive order could open an area of America's most precious landscapes bigger than Yellowstone to oil drilling and coal mining, write Lawrence Carter & Joe Sandler Clarke. The 27 monuments 'under review' harbour huge volumes of oil, gas and coal: just what's needed to fuel Trump's vision of fossil fuel-led development - never mind the cost to scenery, wildlife, historic sites and indigenous cultures.
Trump's National Monument order could open 2.7 million acres to oil, gas, coal Lawrence Carter Joe Sandler Clarke Greenpeace Energydesk | 12th May 2017 News USA Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Coal Climate …
Lord Lawson, the chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, was invited on to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, where he mislead listeners about the science of climate change. Should the journalists on the programme have received better training on climate science? Mat Hope reports.
No BBC science reporting course since 2012, documents reveal Mat Hope | 6th November 2017 News Lord Lawson Global Warming Policy Foundation Radio 4 BBC Climate Science. 405663.jpg Lord Lawson, the …
A local food-production scheme, dedicated to conservation and sustainability in East Sussex, has been crowdfunding to finance the legal battle that will see it in the High Court today. The Crossing - a micro-farm providing affordable and pesticide free food for the surrounding Forest Row community - is taking its local council to the High Court to challenge a decision to turn down its application for planning permission and, say the petitioners, to fight for the rights of small food growers. MATTHEW NEWSOME reports
Ecologist Special Report: Community Farm takes local council to High Court this Solstice Matthew Newsome | 21st June 2017 News Community Farming Sustainability Smallholder Farming the crossing.jpg A …
ExxonMobil has been funding high quality science while also funding and supporting climate denial. So should scientists continue to accept money from oil companies and other vested interests? KATHARINE HAYHOE, a climate science professor, discusses her own early ExxonMobil funding and the ethical issues it raises
I was an Exxon-funded climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe | 6th September 2017 News Oil Denial Exxon Climate Change 405218.jpg ExxonMobil has been funding high quality science while also funding and …
The UK government hates to be held accountable in court when it breaks environmental laws like those on air quality. So it has created new rules - coming into force today - that expose environmental litigants to unlimited financial liabilities. Now three leading NGOs have done to the High Court to argue that the rules themselves are in breach the UK's international obligations.
Government tries to puts itself above environmental law Oliver Tickell | 28th February 2017 News Law UK Pollution Politics FOI london-smog-2-cut.jpg The UK government hates to be held accountable in …
A 2001 study that showed that glyphosate caused cancer in mice was ignored by the EFSA after the unsubstantiated allegation of a former US-EPA official that the mice used in the study were suffering from a viral infection that might have given them cancer, writes Claire Robinson. The EFSA failed to properly investigate the allegation, which appears to originate in a document linked to Monsanto, maker of the world's top-selling herbicide, glyphosate-based Roundup.
… and published in the journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology , which has industry …
Donald Trump defined the future of his presidency this week with a series of executive orders and speeches that promised corporations everything they ever wanted, writes Patrick Martin: the scrapping of environmental, energy and labour regulations, massive tax cuts, and approval of two fiercely resisted oil pipelines.
… expedited permitting and environmental reviews of infrastructure projects designated … bosses immediate changes to expedite such reviews: "We're gonna make a very short …
As Kraków, Poland's second city, takes steps to protect its citizens from rising electromagnetic 'smog' from mobile phones, wifi, Bluetooth, smart meters and other devices, Lynne Wycherley summarises 2016's news highlights on the emerging bio-risks of rising exposure to non-ionisiong radiation. For how much longer can governments continue to ignore the growing evidence of harm?
… study design team, confirmed "after extensive reviews, the consensus is that there was a …
Analysis from Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit finds average annual profit margin of 32% in monopoly sector. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Electricity network firms’ profits add £10bn to bills Brendan Montague | 6th September 2017 News Energy Bills Profits Margins Households Green Levies 405246.jpg Analysis from Energy and Climate …
Ultimately the UK Government's new industrial strategy has the potential to use government investment to shift the country in the right direction for the environment. But we need more than just ‘public money,' we need the public's money too writes JOE WARE
Decarbonising the UK economy Joe Ware | 26th January 2017 News Energy Renewables Deacarbonisation Green Economy marine pollution.jpg Ultimately the UK Government's new industrial strategy has the …
They promote GMOs, defend toxic chemicals, and attack people who raise concerns about those products as 'anti-science'. But behind the slick 'astroturf' PR fronts lurk some very dubious funders: the same arch-conservative foundations that finance climate science denial. Stacy Malkan exposes the key players in the agribusiness and chemical industry propaganda wars.
Propaganda wars: 'pro-science' GMO, chemicals boosters funded by climate change deniers Stacy Malkan | 28th February 2017 News GMOs Pesticides Toxics Climate Change Media Spin Finance USA …
Cutting-edge molecular profiling analyses reveal that the popular weedkiller Roundup causes serious liver damage to rats at low doses permitted by regulators, reports Claire Robinson. The findings suggest that residues of glyphosate-based herbicides in food could be linked to rises in the incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, diabetes and 'metabolic syndrome'.
Roundup residues in food cause fatty liver disease Claire Robinson GMWatch | 9th January 2017 News Science Health Pesticides obesity-cut.jpg Cutting-edge molecular profiling analyses reveal that the …
I am pro-vaccine, writes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I had all of my six children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines save millions of lives. So let me explain why I edited the book 'Thimerosal: Let The Science Speak', which exposes the dangerous and avoidable use of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines given to millions of children and pregnant women here and around the world.
Vaccines, mercury and thimerosal: let the science speak! Robert F. Kennedy Jr | 7th February 2017 News Health Toxics Corporations Regulation Politics USA vaccines-cut.jpg I am pro-vaccine, writes …
Natural disasters like flood and drought have cost the Australian government more than A$12 billion since 2009, write Tayanah O'Donnel & Josephine Mummery, with even harsher weather events predicted for coming decades. Clearly, it's just the time for Australia to eliminate funding for research on adapting to climate change.
Australia axes climate change adaptation research Tayanah O'Donnel Josephine Mummery University of Canberra | 16th May 2017 News Climate Change Politics Finance Australia Adaptation …
Colombia is now closer than ever to finding a peaceful resolution to generations of violence. With so much to gain in a post-conflict world - as much for the Colombian people as for their environment - the sudden prospect of losing it all will make for tense months ahead writes FOREST RAY
Ecologist Special Report: Ecological Conservation in Post-Conflict Colombia Forest Ray | 10th February 2017 News Colombia Conservation Conflict Ecological Restoration Biodiversity hillsidevillage …
The US has ended its funding to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change despite the serious national security implications for the country, argues BRENDA EKWURZEL
Donald Trump ends IPCC funding and 'abandons global science leadership' Brenda Ekwurzel | 17th August 2017 News US Abandons Global Science Leadership Zeroes Out IPCC Funding …
Letters from an EPA toxicologist to the EPA official in charge of assessing whether glyphosate, the active ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, causes cancer, reveal accusations of 'staff intimidation' and 'political conniving games with the science' to favour pesticide corporations, writes Carey Gillam. Could this be a game-changer for cancer-suffering plaintiffs?
Suppressed EPA toxicologist: 'it is essentially certain that glyphosate causes cancer' Carey Gillam | 14th February 2017 News Law Health Pesticides Corporations Un USA EU crop-dusting-cut.jpg Letters …
Urgent government action is needed to stop Big Pharma making mega profits from drugs developed with taxpayers' money. HEIDI CHOW from Global Justice Now reports on her charity's new ground breaking report.
… the five years of negotiations, spanning two reviews, and following pressure from patient …
The UK government claim that fracking is a 'clean' energy source rests on the conclusions of a single scientific paper, writes Paul Mobbs. And now that paper has been conclusively invalidated: it uses misleading figures that understate the methane emissions from fracking, and subsequent findings have left it totally discredited. Yet the paper is still being quoted to justify fracking, and the fool the public on its climate change impacts.
Whitehall's fracking science failure: shale gas really is worse for climate than coal Paul Mobbs | 24th May 2017 News Fracking Climate Change Science Fossil Fuels USA UK ch4-cut.jpg The UK government …
The rejection of a plan to import vast amounts of high-level nuclear waste from around the world for profit was a significant result for campaigners but that threat is still far from over, writes JIM GREEN
How the South Australians who dumped a nuclear dump may soon have another fight on their hands Jim Green | 15th June 2017 News Nuclear Waste Australia Campaigning Citizens' Jury adelaide rally …
The government / NFU badger culling policy is based on a single study, the Randomised Badger Culling Trials (RBCT), which found that area-wide badger killing reduced TB 'breakdowns' in cattle herds. But a robust reanalysis of the RBCT data reveals that culling is entirely ineffective, writes Tom Langton. The only scientifically valid conclusion is that culling badgers has no effect on TB in cattle. Defra and Natural England must think again!
Lies, damned lies and twisted statistics - fake science set to kill 100,000 English badgers Tom Langton | 13th April 2017 News Badgers Science Health Farming Politics UK England …
Nuclear power is suffering one of its worst ever years, writes JIM GREEN. Even nuclear enthusiasts agree that the industry is in crisis. The bankruptcy filing by US nuclear giant Westinghouse has sent a cold chill through the industry which elsewhere, is suffering from crippling economic problems, successful legal challenges, and public opposition
Nuclear power's annus horribilis Jim Green | 13th July 2017 News Nuclear Renewables Hinckley Point Economic Downturn hinkley c.jpg Nuclear power is suffering one of its worst ever years, writes JIM …
As deadly H5Nx bird flu strains diversify in giant, fast-rotation flocks and and adapt to poultry that tens of thousands of human handlers care for and process every day, the emergence of a deadly human-specific flu becomes ever more likely, writes Robert G. Wallace. The industry can no longer blame wild birds for the problems it is creating - and must urgently reform its own practices.
Deadly bird flu strains created by industrial poultry farms Robert G. Wallace | 30th January 2017 News Health Farming Birds Science poultry-farm-cut.jpg As deadly H5Nx bird flu strains diversify in …
Donald Trump's scheme to rebuild US infrastructure could be among the world's greatest ever financial heists, writes Pete Dolack. He has chosen the most expensive, anti-democratic way to do the job, through the mass privatization of priceless public assets - sticking users and taxpayers for exorbitant charges for decades to come, while banks and speculators reap the profits.
… Dakota Access pipelines without environmental reviews, and an intention to expedite environmental reviews for "high priority infrastructure …