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RBS faces wrath of climate activists

Climate change protesters set up camp close to the Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters yesterday, accusing the state-owned bank of using taxpayers' money to finance the fossil fuel industry.

Inside Climate Change

Reports suggest that inflow to the Murray-Darling Basin is at an all-time low.

On climate change frontline

Thursday, 19 August 2010

Kathy Marks: It's the burning issue Australia's leaders dare not confront, even on the eve of a general election

Exercising Britain's nuclear options

Tuesday, 10 August 2010

Chris Huhne insists Britain's new nuclear power stations will be built on time, but scepticism remains

The Tiputini river on the border of Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, which is threatened by oil drilling. Ecuador's UN-backed plan to leave the oil in the ground would mitigate global warming

The world's first really green oil deal

Sunday, 8 August 2010

Esm� McAvoy: Ecuador's $3.6bn scheme to save its rainforest from exploitation could point the way to sparing other threatened landscapes

Huge ice island calves off Greenland glacier

Saturday, 7 August 2010

An ice island four times the size of Manhattan broke off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers, scientists said on Friday, in the biggest such event in the Arctic in nearly 50 years.

A large bloom of phytoplankton - which has been described as 'the basis of life in the oceans' - floating in the north-eastern Atlantic, as seen from space

The dead sea: Forty per cent decline in phytoplankton

Thursday, 29 July 2010

Steve Connor: Scientists believe the decline in phytoplankton is linked with rising sea temperatures.

The Independent's environment editor Michael McCarthy examines the 2050 Pathway Calculator

How I tried to save the world – from the comfort of my desk

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Michael McCarthy: From today, you can sit at your laptop and redesign UK energy policy for the next 40 years.

Energy plans will 'reduce UK's reliance on fossil fuels'

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Moves to boost investment in renewable energy and nuclear power stations were set out by the coalition Government yesterday as it promised to reduce Britain's dependency on fossil fuels and cut carbon emissions.

The Dainty Damsefly has returned to Britain

Damselflies in distress forced back to UK

Thursday, 22 July 2010

Michael McCarthy: This dainty flying matchstick of bright blue and black returns as temperatures rise

Climate change threatens poverty fight, report warns

Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Climate change threatens to undo years of work to tackle poverty in developing countries, a report warned today.

'This research helps shed further light on the potential to cut carbon emissions from energy use in the home,' says Caroline Lucas MP, Leader of the Green Party

UK's emissions could be cut at flick of a switch

Sunday, 18 July 2010

Susie Mesure: Basic energy-saving measures could slash domestic carbon gases by up to a third

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