environmental news

There are so many stories we can tell ourselves to justify doing nothing, but perhaps the most insidious is that, whatever we do manage to do, it will be too little too late. Climate change is upon us, and it has arrived well ahead of schedule. Scientists’ projections that seemed dire a decade ago turn out to have been unduly optimistic: the warming and the melting is occurring much faster than the models predicted.

Britain is to launch a huge expansion of offshore wind-power with plans for thousands of turbines in the North Sea, Irish Sea and around the coast of Scotland.

From Jeremy Clarkson on polar bears to Camilla Cavendish on the greening of the Conservative party, we look back at the most popular climate change stories of 2007

A tropical rainforest that was in danger of being destroyed within ten years is expected to win legal protection as a nature reserve today, thanks to the efforts of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

WHO would have thought that saving the planet could be such a lucrative business? Al Gore, the former US vice-president turned environmental campaigner, has made more than £50m in just seven years from his books, speeches and shrewd investments in technology and green ventures.

Environment ministers from more than 180 countries were arriving in Bali this weekend for a second week of climate change talks as a stand-off emerged between the main negotiating blocs.

The debate of cork vs. metal screw caps takes on a new life. The question is no longer about ease of use and corked wine; it's about sustainability of trees and the livelihood of thousands.