Blog: Climate

4 reasons why we could all be fracked by fracking

Posted by leila - 12 August 2013 at 12:00am
Cuadrilla's drilling rig in Balcombe, Sussex
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Drill, baby, drill: Cuadrilla's rig in Balcombe, Sussex

As David Cameron warns the nation: like fracking or lump it, we examine why shale gas extraction is a bonkers idea for Britain.

Of Shell, spill plans and sea ice

Posted by ben - 8 August 2013 at 7:12pm
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Leading polar bear expert Dr. Ian Stirling said this bear, found in Svalbard, died of starvation due to a lack of sea ice from which to hunt. In the last 30 years, 75% of Arctic sea ice has disappeared.

It's pretty safe to say that the Arctic is under pressure like never before. Climate change is warming it faster than any other part of our planet. Sea ice is shrinking. The way of life of Indigenous Peoples is seriously threatened and animal habitats are vanishing. Oil companies eye a polar bonanza while hulking fishing fleets are edging ever northwards.

The birds have gone silent: how a fracking company is changing my village

Posted by Kathryn McWhirter - 8 August 2013 at 1:08pm
Anti-fracking protester at Balcombe drilling site
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Balcombe is surrounded by woodland which could be affected by drilling and fracking

I’m just back from the local anti-fracking camp outside Balcombe in Sussex, where Cuadrilla workers are noisily drilling their oil well despite not having the necessary permits and huge local opposition. Many hugs from the campers and villagers down there, and frankly too many Balcombe courgettes: I’ve brought mine back home due to lack of demand.

Video: how to climb the tallest building in western Europe

Posted by victoriah - 24 July 2013 at 6:08pm

Since the six of us climbed the Shard, many people have asked: how did we do it? How much training did it take? How did we go to the toilet?

Road-building plans are being driven round the bend

Posted by Sian Berry - 12 July 2013 at 6:26pm
Car exhaust fumes
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New road-building plans ride roughshod over the green economy

Last week's spending round was another nail in the coffin of "the greenest government ever". Treasury minister Danny Alexander's speech was a stream of plans and proposals to carve up the countryside, ratchet up road emissions and slash funding for green transport. So much for a green economy.

Hell yeah, I'm scared, but I'm still scaling the Shard to save the Arctic

Posted by victoriah - 11 July 2013 at 8:26am
The Iceclimb team
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Victoria, third from left, with her fellow activists before heading up the Shard

With any luck, as you read this I’ll be clinging to the side of the Shard, hundreds of metres up in the sky.

But as I write this, with less than a week to go, I’m just feeling... tired. I have sores on my shoulders from training with backpacks full of weights, and every night brings tiresome dreams about carabiners and tangled ropes.

Climate change is kept in the curriculum but it’s a bittersweet victory

Posted by Esha Marwaha - 8 July 2013 at 12:43pm
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Esha and fellow activists handing in the petition calling for climate change lessons to be kept in the curriculum to the Department for Education

A few months ago, I sat expressing my anger towards the removal of climate change from the geography curriculum for key stages 1 – 3. The Department for Education seemed to overlook the very people who this decision would affect – school students. A few months later, I am happy and relieved to say that our request to keep climate in the curriculum has been acknowledged. 

Sympathy for the revel - Glastonbury 2013

Posted by kcumming - 5 July 2013 at 4:07pm

It’s not every day we trump the Rolling Stones. But more than once at Glastonbury 2013, I overheard people pointing to the Greenpeace field and saying “that’s been my favourite thing at the festival”.

Where did all the fun go?

Posted by Hugh Mouser - 4 July 2013 at 6:43pm
Electric car charging station sign
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Sign of the times, but car companies are dragging their heels over electric vehicles

I grew up on a diet of TV shows like Knight Rider and The A Team. I saw Ferrari and Mclaren produce faster cars as time went by. I admired how the car industry kept on trying to improve.

But it seems like some carmakers have lost the fun of innovation.

Power up: world's largest wind farm switched on

Posted by Liam Kirkaldy - 4 July 2013 at 1:40pm
Wind turbine, part of the London Array
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Winds of change: the London Array is the largest windfarm in the world

It would be an understatement to say that today is a big one for renewable energy in this country. Because today the London Array – the world’s largest offshore windfarm – becomes fully operational. The scale is breath-taking – it will supply electricity to around half a million homes while providing a technological benchmark for future renewable sources across the globe to aspire to.

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