Divestment League Table: Only Eight UK Universities Committed to Investing in Renewables
Read time: 2 minsWith students across the world taking to the streets to draw awareness to the climate crisis, UK universities are cleaning up...
Divestment League Table: Only Seven UK Universities Committed to Investing in Renewables
Read time: 3 minsCorrected 17/07/2019: The headline and content of this article were changed to reflect corrections to errors in the original data.
With students across the...
Revealed: UK Companies Opening Overseas Carbon Credit Accounts in Preparation for No-Deal Brexit
Read time: 4 minsBritish companies are increasingly moving their carbon credits into new offshore accounts to get around punitive measures from the EU and...
The ‘Historical Jigsaw of Climate Deception’: Private Notes Show How Big Oil Spread Climate...
Read time: 6 minsWe’ve all heard the dodgy arguments: ‘the science is uncertain’, ‘climate change is natural, not down to humans’, ‘science has been...
David Attenborough Calls on Voters in US and Australia to Respond to Climate Science...
Read time: 2 minsVeteran broadcaster David Attenborough has expressed his disappointment at the rise of climate science denial in the US and Australia and...
Big Oil’s ‘Natural Climate Solutions’ Feasibility Overblown, Critics Say
Read time: 7 minsA recently published report has called into question the efficacy of land-based solutions being pushed by NGOs and major oil companies...
Anglia Ruskin University Chairman and Tory Donor Jerome Booth Becomes Trustee of Climate Science...
Read time: 4 minsThe UK’s principal climate science denial campaign group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has appointed one of its donors, Dr Jerome...
Creative Carbon Accounting: How Industry and Government Make Burning Wood Look Like a Climate...
Read time: 10 minsThe UK has recently committed to breaking even on the greenhouse gas emissions generated by its economy. This means that for...
From London to Madrid: How Former Prime Minister José María Aznar Promoted Nigel Lawson’s...
Read time: 3 minsHow did Nigel Lawson become big in Spain? With a little help from his powerful friends, of course.
Spain’s former Prime Minister José...
UK Government Agency’s Annual Support for Overseas Fossil Fuel Projects Rises to £2bn
Read time: 3 minsOfficial figures reveal the UK gave over £2 billion of support to fossil fuel projects abroad in the past year through...
Latest news
Popular Articles
500 incredibly rare monkeys found deep in Vietnam forest
Prior to the discovery, fewer than 1,000 grey-shanked doucs were known to exist, making them one of the 25 most endangered primates on the...
Trump and science: Protesters gather in Boston to “stand up for science”
LYNYRD SKYNYRD'S “Sweet Home Alabama” is a strange choice of song to open a rally of scientists. Written in 1973, the southern anthem was...
The conservative carbon tax: Right idea, wrong tool.
March 13, 2017 — Recently some U.S. conservative leaders proposed a carbon tax to hedge the risks associated with climate change. We welcome these...
Biogeochemistry: Land CO2 sink drivers
Nature 541, 516–520 (2017)
Year to year, variations in the rate of atmospheric CO2 growth arise primarily from fluctuations in carbon uptake by ecosystems on...
Boko Haram terrorists thriving on climate crisis: report
Chronic drought around Lake Chad is reinforcing terrorist group Boko Haram’s stronghold on the region, a report commissioned by the German government has warned.Some...