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Gassed by Union Carbide, poisoned by Dow Chemical, betrayed and beaten by their own government, the people of Bhopal, India know a thing or two about injustice but still they refuse to accept it.

SCHNEWS asks who's harassing who as hunt seeks giant exclusion zone.

“If we can get this, it will be a massive victory for hunting and will set a precedent for other hunts to follow.” Simon Bonner – Countryside Alliance chairman.

Is the airship a viable alternative to jet travel?

Plans to build one of Europe's largest onshore wind farms in the Outer Hebrides have been formally rejected after Scottish ministers ruled the £500m scheme would devastate a globally significant peatland.

That's what Archbishop Desmond Tutu is asking the leaders of the most polluting economies, living up to his reputation for calling a spade a spade in, um, spades.

Never mind the economic crisis. Focus for a moment on a more urgent threat: the great food recession which is sweeping the world faster than the credit crunch. While 100m tonnes of food will be diverted this year to feed cars, 760m tonnes will be snatched from the mouths of humans to feed animals. This could cover the global food deficit 14 times. If you care about hunger, eat less meat.

Fossil Fools Day was such a great sucess - Now is not the time to pause for breath, now is the time to continue building out networks, continue skill sharing and continue taking action!

Vegetable evangelist George Monbiot on his healthy obsession with home-grown produce: Why do people become obsessed with growing vegetables?

Climate change campaigners marked the third annual "Fossil Fool's Day" on Tuesday with a series of protests around the world highlighting the need for us all to reduce the amount of carbon we burn.

"Coal is so clean and fresh that the prime minister brushes his teeth with it, Downing Street said last night. Mr Brown said advances in coal technology meant it was now one of the cleanest substances on Earth, and an unrivalled remover of stains and scaling." So says the satirical website the Daily Mash. The real claims are scarcely battier.

The world's glaciers are melting faster than at any time since records began, threatening catastrophe for hundreds of millions of people and their eco-systems. The details are revealed in the latest report from the World Glacier Monitoring Service and will add to growing alarm about the rise in sea levels and increased instances of flooding, avalanches and drought.

Back in 1882, Thomas Edison built the United States' first electric power plant. It supplied electricity for lighting and steam for manufacturing and was around 50% efficient. 125 years on, the typical UK power plant is just 38% efficient. So how did Edison do it? And where are we going so wrong?

Mashing statistics and art is Seattle-based Chris Jordan, who has produced these amazing and profoundly depressing visualisations of the resources we use and the waste we produce.

The world is finite. We won't change this with vegan shoes and hybrid cars, no matter how green. We need to make second-hand shoes and public transportation our fashion statement. Otherwise, we're just greening the Titanic.

From Britain to Botswana, the Philippines to Patagonia, individuals and organisations are buying up vast areas of land in the name of protecting environments. But is private ownership the way to save them?

Kingsnorth in Kent is to be the main focus of this year's Camp for Climate Action. From 4th to 11th of August climate activists will gather at the site of E.On's proposed new coal-fired power station, the first to be built in the UK for 30 years.

Quick: slow down. Try to disengage from the world and do absolutely nothing, just for a second. Difficult, isn't it?

Satellite photographs from new book show how both natural events and people are reshap

An informative article introducing seed laws in UK and Europe and how they are used to restrict the geographic movement and range of crop varieties.

If you're one of the many, many thousands of people involved in the opposition to Heathrow expansion, you may want to give yourself a pat on the back. The day after the 'consultation' closed, there's news that we're getting the message through to 'the highest levels of Labour'.

A small Inuit community is suing 24 big, bad energy companies, claiming damages due to climate change. The melting ice pack has pushed up sea levels and exposed the residents of Kivalina to an increasing number of storms; the cost of relocating the entire village (which is sinking into the sea) is placed at US$400 million.

Micro-hydro power needs no fuel but offers a constant supply of electricity which often increases in winter, along with demand. It has a long life cycle. It can have low implementation and maintenance costs. And, unlike some large scale hydroelectric power schemes, it has minimal environmental and visual impacts.

Four Greenpeace climate campaigners climbed on top of a Manchester to London plane after it parked at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal One. They covered the tailfin with a huge protest banner reading “CLIMATE EMERGENCY – NO 3rd RUNWAY”.

Social networks where guilty greens admit to carbon crimes and are punished for profligacy spread through UK.

The BBC's World on the Move employs Google Maps in a rather funky way to track great animal migrations across the globe.

Every year, we bury thousands of tonnes of waste food in landfill sites around the UK. In all, about half of our total landfill comes from biodegradable waste, where it becomes part of the problem that contributes to climate change. Instead of sending it to landfill, anaerobic digestion allows us to convert this waste into ‘biogas', making it part of the solution.

The Olympic Delivery Authority has unveiled a design for its energy centre - complete with a combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP) plant fuelled by sustainable biomass (woodchip) and natural gas.

A new poll released today shows that the number of Japanese who don't support whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is growing - the 69% figure is a slight increase on the number found by a similar poll last year. Perhaps surprisingly, the Greenpeace commissioned poll showed that 87% were unaware that their tax money was being used to subsidise the whaling operation.

Britain's official approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are, the more yours is worth.

An average person stores as much energy in fat as a 1000kg battery and there are some interesting developments that are trying to harness some of this energy. We're not just talking riding a bike. What if your walk or bike not only got you to your destination, but also charged a battery or a portable device?