Greenpeace singles out Amazon Web Services and Twitter for siting data centres in coal areas and failing to reveal energy use The rise of social media is being powered by dirty forms of energy such as coal, a report from the campaign group Greenpeace said on Wednesday. The Clicking Clean report praised six companies Apple, Box, Facebook, Google, Rackspace and Salesforce for committing to power their...
John Vidal meets the Filipino diplomat whose emotional reaction to typhoon Haiyan made him the face of UN climate talks Yeb Sano, the young Filipino diplomat who became the face of the UN climate talks in Poland last year when he wept and fasted for two weeks after super-typhoon Haiyan devastated his country, is now an unlikely climate justice superstar. He has the same job, the same friends and he...
Scientist behind the Gaia hypothesis says environment movement does not pay enough attention to facts and he was too certain in the past about rising temperatures Environmentalism has "become a religion" and does not pay enough attention to facts, according to James Lovelock. The 94 year-old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, also...
Today programme's debate between former chancellor Nigel Lawson and climate scientist Brian Hoskins was crass There have been grumbles over the BBC's climate coverage for years, but when the Today programme last month covered the floods with a debate between climatologist Brain Hoskins and politician Nigel Lawson , the volume of grumbles markedly increased. University of Leeds researcher, Simon Lewis,...
A Greenpeace campaign forced Asia Pulp and Paper to change direction, but unless it acts too many will remain sceptical When Ken dumped his long-term girlfriend Barbie via giant Greenpeace poster on the Mattel toy company HQ in Los Angeles in 2011, he said: "Barbie: It's over. I don't date girls that are into deforestation." Mattel was one of over 130 global companies that bought paper packaging...
Lucas is one of five on trial charged with breaching Public Order Act and wilful obstruction of highway at Balcombe site The Green party MP, Caroline Lucas, told police after being arrested at a protest camp that she wanted "to send a clear message to the government that fracking was not needed nor wanted", a court has heard. Lucas, the representative for Brighton Pavilion, is on trial with four others...
Police use money and ruses to persuade campaigners to inform on their fellow activists A little more light was shone into the clandestine world of informants this week. Three more campaigners have stepped forward to describe how covert police officers attempted to induce them into becoming informers. You can read their accounts in more detail here . As we reported on Monday, a 23-year-old single mother...
Energy firm had told watchdog shingle bank between reactors and sea was 'not as robust as thought', environmentalists say EDF has failed to be open and transparent by shutting down its Dungeness plant in Kent for two months without properly informing people, environmentalists have said. The energy company put a one-line statement on its website in May last year saying unit 22 at Dungeness station...
A new post-carbon era dawns as the old fossil fuel system dies. It's time to step up. Last Friday, I posted an exclusive report about a new NASA-backed scientific research project at the US National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (Sesync) to model the risks of civilisational collapse, based on analysis of the key factors involved in the rise and fall of past civilisations. The story went viral...
Force defends use of covert tactics against campaigners A young anti-racism protester abandoned her campaigning work because she felt intimidated by a covert police officer who tried to persuade her to spy on her political colleagues, she has said. The 23-year-old said the officer, working for a secretive police unit, threatened to prosecute her if she told anyone about the attempt to enlist her as...
Activists ask European court of human rights to declare illegal Russian seizure of Greenpeace ship protesting at oil drilling Lawyers for the Arctic 30 , a group of Greenpeace activists and freelance journalists who were detained in Russia last year, have applied to the European court of human rights for damages from Moscow. They are also seeking a declaration Russian authorities broke international...
Protesters at Barton Moss IGas site win 11th hour permissions to stay while they go to Court of Appeal ...
Jonathon Porritt: Why are we afraid to talk about the direct link between rising population and environmental disasters? Jonathon Porritt ...
Yale Environment 360: Local food effort tiny while industrial agriculture is blasting ahead at a great rate, says author, farmer and activist ...
s Media City in Salford and the Manchester ship canal – wants demonstrators to leave its land at Barton Moss by the M62 in Irlam, Salford. The energy firm iGas has been carrying out exploratory drilling at the site since before Christmas in spite of near daily attempts by protesters to slow down or block access to the area. Two self-described "protectors" from the Barton Moss Community Protection Camp...
s Political Consultative Conference, calling on China...
s role in promoting sustainable housebuilding resembles Tory outlook on green issues Michael Gove has hailed the Prince of Wales as a "natural conservative environmentalist" for his role in promoting sustainable housebuilding. As the Tory leadership issued conflicting signals on the causes of climate change, the education secretary said that the heir to the throne embodied an approach to the environment...
Van Badham: Two Girl Scouts campaigned for sustainable palm oil to be used in cookies to save endangered orangutans – and made great progress. Don’t listen to the cynics: all efforts are worthwhile Van Badham ...
besetting' the Cuadrilla's test drilling plant at Balcombe, West Sussex The daughter of musicians Ray Davies and Chrissie Hynde has been found guilty after supergluing herself to a fellow anti-fracking protester outside the main gate of an exploratory oil drilling site. Natalie Hynde, 31, and Simon Medhurst, 55, were convicted of "besetting" energy firm Cuadrilla's test drilling plant during high-profile...
t work Nearly a month since the first shark was killed in Western Australia's controversial cull , and with the recent release of attack statistics , the decision still appears to be drastic. Global opposition from scientists, conservationists and even shark attack victims shows there is little justification for these actions. The Australian public is up in arms over the way the country is being run...