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16/5/2012
The gas leak from the Elgin platform in the North Sea has been stopped, according to oil firm Total.
The company's platform was evacuated when the gas began leaking on Sunday 25 March.
An attempt to stop the leak by pumping ...
16/5/2012
ccLike most developing countries, Pakistan is staring at the spectre of food insecurity, with its food production out of sync with population growth. The food availability scenario is further complicated by changing weather patterns with ...
16/5/2012
A gas leak on a North Sea oil platform has been stopped, according to the operators.
Work to "kill" the leak started yesterday on Total's Elgin platform, around 150 miles (241km) from Aberdeen, with heavy mud being pumped into the ...
16/5/2012
The advertising watchdog has given Greenpeace a dressing down for running an "irresponsible" ad campaign to raise funds to takeover and deface property to make environmental protests.
Greenpeace ran a campaign on its website, ...
16/5/2012
A pioneering UK project to test technology for a climate "tech fix" has been postponed for at least a year.
The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (Spice) project would have pumped water droplets into the atmosphere ...
16/5/2012
Divisions have again emerged on the first few days of the latest round of international climate change talks in Bonn, with the EU and groups of developing countries clashing over the future of the controversial Kyoto Protocol.
Under the ...
16/5/2012
France's Total said it had succeeded in stopping the gas leak at its well at the Elgin platform in the North Sea after it pumped heavy mud into it.
During the coming days, teams of experts from Total and specialist contractors will ...
16/5/2012
Secret plans reveal Peru is actively pursuing new gas reserves inside protected tribal land, a flagrant violation of laws that prevent such projects.
The Nahua-Nanti Reserve in southeast Peru is known for its uncontacted Amazon tribes, ...
16/5/2012
Could Christiana Figueres have the world's toughest job: getting all nations to agree how to tackle climate change? We talk to the UN's climate chief
You are in charge of the United Nations climate negotiations - a notoriously tricky ...
16/5/2012
South African police have arrested a Vietnamese man suspected of being in illegal possession of 10 rhino horns, one elephant tusk and cash with a total value of nearly $3 million, an official said on Wednesday.
South Africa, the country ...
16/5/2012
Sustainable development talks at next month’s Rio+20 summit are set to be “very helpful” for the UN climate change negotiations, said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ...
16/5/2012
Government representatives started meeting Monday in the German city of Bonn to embark on the next essential steps required to curb global greenhouse gas emissions and help developing countries adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change. ...
16/5/2012
A proposed study of people in northern Pennsylvania could help resolve a national debate about whether the natural gas boom is making people sick.
The study would look at detailed health histories on hundreds of thousands of people who ...
16/5/2012
South Korean businessmen, typically clad in uniform dark blue suits, are being urged to dump their jackets and ties as the summer looms in a bid to save electricity amid tight supplies as offices turn up the air conditioning.
Those ...
16/5/2012
UK families are wasting £270 a year (£5.20 a week) on discarded food and drink, according to a survey of their kitchen habits.
Most families massively underestimate the amount of food they throw away each week, according to new ...
16/5/2012
Millions of Japanese homes are preparing for a long hot summer after Japan's government warned that a shortage of electricity generation could lead to mandatory power cuts. Critics say the threat is a ploy to force the restart of the nation's ...
15/5/2012
A new study led by Carrie Schloss, an analyst in environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington, finds that nine percent of the Western Hemisphere`s mammals, and nearly forty percent in particular regions, will fall victim to ...
15/5/2012
The year 2011 was one of extremes for the small Sri Lankan village of Verugal.
Lying on the island’s Northeastern coast, Verugal began the year with incessant rainfall. Between January and February of 2011, the East coast received a ...
15/5/2012
The joint investigation team collected more than a dozen soil samples as well as measuring peat depth from various hotspots in SPS2 concession. Upon multiple results of in palm oil plantations in peat deeper than 3 meters, Ministry of Environment ...
15/5/2012
Wildfires
Crews in B.C., Manitoba and Alberta are already busy this week fighting wildfires. A First Nations community in British Columbia has been put on evacuation alert, about a dozen people have been forced from their homes in ...
15/5/2012
THE future of a much-vaunted $30 million Australian project to protect Indonesian forests for their carbon is in doubt after an independent review found it is not the best use of the money.
The project on the island of Sumatra was ...
15/5/2012
As the host of Rio+20, the Brazilian government has defined guidelines for achieving success at the upcoming world summit, whose aim is to assess and strengthen what has been done since the 1992 Earth Summit, the first global meeting on ...
15/5/2012
In a joint announcement two weeks ago, the United States and Japan (along with ConocoPhillips, the U.S.-based multinational oil company) announced the world's first successful field trial (in Alaska) of a technology that uses carbon dioxide to ...
15/5/2012
Human society is consuming natural resources as if there were one-and-a-half Earths, and not just a single blue planet, according to the most recent Living Planet Report released today. If governments and societies continue with ...
15/5/2012
Models integrating air quality and climate change data will help reaching compliance with new emission targets.
New air pollutant emission targets have just been introduced in the EU. Chance of meeting these new targets has recently been ...