Ten years after promises of 'no mining' in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a $5 billion diamond mine opens a few miles from a Bushman village. Elsewhere in the Reserve, fracking is under way. And President Ian Khama, a director of Conservation International, denounces the Bushmen as 'poachers' and evicts them from their land.
Botswana government lies exposed as $5bn diamond mine opens on Bushman land Oliver Tickell | 4th September 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Botswana Hunting Mining Fracking kalahari-diamond-mine-cut.jpg …
There's an Alice in Wonderland flavour to the nuclear power debate, writes Jim Green. Lobbyists are promoting all sorts of new reactor types - an implicit admission that existing reactors aren't up to the job. But the designs they are promoting have two severe problems. They don't exist. And they have no customers.
'New' reactor types are all nuclear pie in the sky Jim Green | 2nd October 2014 News Technology Nuclear Corporations Energy ebr-argonne-cut.jpg There's an Alice in Wonderland flavour to the nuclear …
This chronicle of over two centuries of melting Alpine and polar ice, seen through the works of contemporary artists, is at its best both powerful and provocative, writes Martin Spray. But he wonders - is art really such an effective force for environmental protection?
Vanishing ice through artists' eyes Martin Spray | 9th May 2014 Reviews Art Climate Change Water Travel iceberg-cut.jpg This chronicle of over two centuries of melting Alpine and polar ice, seen …
The Kenyan government has sent troops to the Embobut forest to forcefully - and illegally - evict thousands of its indigenous inhabitants, to make way for a World Bank-financed 'Natural Resource Management Project'.
Kenya - forest people facing violent eviction Oliver Tickell | 9th January 2014 News Forests World Bank Indigenous Peoples Conservation sengwer-protest.png The Kenyan government has sent troops to …
The cash-strapped Cumbrian Museum is rebranded to tell 'The Sellafield Story'. The UK's favourite scientist Brian Cox and Government Minister Baroness Verma provide razzmatazz along with the Happy Robot. Lollypops anyone?
… photographs, archive footage, factoids and timelines. All this serves to give the …
Fossil fuel companies are a risky investment thanks to the 2.8 trillion tonnes of 'unburnable' carbon in their reserves, writes Franklin Ginn. But there's an even stronger reason to support fossil fuel divestment: to erode their political power, which they use to block progress to a sustainable, low carbon future.
… can work, but only if clear goals and timelines are set. Research that helps …
The UK Government promises that the Hinkley C 'EPR' nuclear reactor will lower electricity bills, but Keith Barnham shows that this is the very reverse of the truth. Our best hope is that it will never be built. Legal challenges aside, no sane investor will commit until one of the two EPR prototypes is working, which will be in 2016 at the earliest.
Hinkley C will cost Britain dear - if it's ever built Keith Barnham | 15th October 2014 News UK France Finland EU Nuclear Energy Renewables olkiluoto-demo-cut.jpg The UK Government promises that the …
Scientists know that if Antarctica's ice sheets and glaciers collapse, sea levels could rise 5 metres. But the idea that it will take 200 years to happen is based on a linear model, writes Dady Cherry. In fact, the process is exponential - and could take place 'within decades'.
… equivalent of feigning surprise when their timelines, based on a completely bogus …
The European Commission has launched its public consultation over the UK's proposed state aid to the proposed Hinkley C nuclear plant in Somerset - and in the process delivered a mighty broadside against the UK Government's plans.
European Commission: Hinkley C subsidies are unfair State Aid Greenpeace UK The Ecologist | 11th March 2014 News Nuclear Power Energy UK EU Regulation hinkley_point_b.png The European Commission has …
The nuclear industry and its supporters have contrived a variety of narratives to justify and explain away nuclear catastrophes, writes John Downer. None of them actually hold water, yet they serve their purpose - to command political and media heights, and reassure public sentiment on 'safety'. But if it's so safe, why the low limits on nuclear liabilities?
Fukushima and the institutional invisibility of nuclear disaster John Downer | 20th December 2014 News Energy Politics Finance Science Nuclear Japan fuku-blacksmoke-cut.jpg The nuclear industry and …