In a move that many environmental rights groups have described as historic, the government of New Zealand has blocked a major new offshore oil exploration project. The decision has been widely applauded however not all …
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EU Scientists Withdraw From Research Project
There’s a fascinating new story doing the rounds at the moment about the huge scientific research centre – Heimholtz Research, which has withdrawn from a project due to political pressure. In many ways this sounds …
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Anonymity is important when you’re online particularly if you have views or opinions that are deemed inappropriate by the government you live under. These links below will help you maintain some sort of privacy and …
Continue readingThe World Keeps Getting Warmer
There’s a definite tendency for climate change to get shuffled back to the back of the political agenda whenever possible. This is probably because it’s difficult and expensive to correct the damage we continue to …
Continue readingShell Admits Defeat on Artic Drillling
The statement from the Shell official, was simple yet it masked a complex and difficult situation for the oil giant. “We had hoped for more,” he stated as it was announcing the company was pulling …
Continue readingLooking Back to the Kyoto Protocol Extension
Possibly the most important climate talks in a generation have just finished in Doha, Qatar. The climate talks were hosted by the UN and have seen an unparalleled shift in principle from some of the …
Continue readingNew and Surprising Results from Cryosat
The European Cryosat mission has been focussing on analysing the sea-ice cover in the Arctic recently. New data has been produced from the spacecraft which uses it’s radar to estimate the thickness of the ices …
Continue readingRemember the Earth Hour Project
Last year, and you may remember on the Saturday 23rd March at 8:30pm, millions of people around the world will be recognising Earth Hour. At this time (your local time) people across the world will …
Continue readingStudying Climate Change on the Ground
The most obvious effects of climate change are of course in the air temperature, the weather and the sea levels. However it is also known to cause other problems indirectly such as damaging the soil. …
Continue readingFrench Firms Warns Off Drilling in Artic
I can’t remember ever hearing a statement like this before, but the CEO of French Total has completely surprised many environmentalists. Christophe de Margerie stated that the environmental risks of drilling in the Artic outweighed …
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