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Forest destroyer APRIL told to shape up

Posted by Richardg - 12 April 2013 at 3:42pm - Comments

A forest fire on the Indonesian island of Sumatra

Some companies just don’t get the hint. You just can't go around destroying Indonesia's rainforests and call yourself a sustainable businesses.

Article tagged as: APRIL, forests, indonesia, rainforest

We all need to learn about climate change

Posted by Esha Marwaha - 12 April 2013 at 1:59pm - Comments

Esha Marwaha student and campaigner for national climate education

On Monday, 15th April, Esha Marwaha will hand in her petition to urge education secretary, Michael Gove, to keep the climate change debate on the curriculum. The 15-year-old geography student, and 28,000 others are demanding he scraps his plans to remove climate change from geography lessons. Let's see if it can reach 30,000 before the petition is handed over.

Article tagged as: change, climate, education, esha, geogrpahy, petition

When is inevitable not inevitable?

Posted by Charlie Kronick - 11 April 2013 at 7:35pm - Comments

Shell's rig, Kulluk, prepared for transport to asia for repairs

The end of 2012 and first months of 2013 have seen a remarkable change in the fight to protect the Arctic from risky and dangerous oil exploration. Three oil “majors” – Total, Statoil and Conoco-Phillips - have withdrawn from drilling projects in the far North.

Article tagged as: arctic, charlie, climate, company, kronick, oil, shell

Forest solutions: saving the Great Bear Rainforest

Posted by Richardg - 11 April 2013 at 6:12pm - Comments

A Grizzly Bear on a river ledge in the Great Bear Rainforest in British Co

We fought for over a decade to protect Canada's Great Bear Rainforest. Over half of this ancient temperate rainforest is now protected from logging and pipelines. Now it's time for the provincial government to keep its promise and put 70% of the forest out of harm's way by the end of next year.

Article tagged as: forests, GBR, great bear rainforest, rainforest

Three strikes and you're out

Posted by Sune Scheller - 11 April 2013 at 10:14am - Comments

Polar bears climb a Statoil rig on Wednesday

Yesterday morning, two polar bears scaled the Statoil oil rig West Hercules bound for the world’s northernmost drilling sites in the Arctic. Just a few hours later the Norwegian state-owned oil company announced that these frontier drillings will not take place this year. And just now, ConocoPhillips announced that they too will be cancelling 2014 drilling plans north of Alaska due to 'regulatory uncertainties.'

Article tagged as: arctic, bear, climate, conoco, oil, Statoil

Bearing witness to Statoil's Arctic oil drilling madness

Posted by Martin Norman - 10 April 2013 at 4:53pm - Comments

I’m eating butter straight out of the package to keep my body fat high enough to withstand the cold and to resupply myself with sufficient energy. But this morning I’ve received an energy boost far better than any free-roaming cow can produce. Before setting out, I got news from my friends and colleagues home in Norway that they took action today at the Statoil oil rig, West Hercules, that is about to set out to drill for oil in the Arctic.

Do the quake and frack

Posted by Graham Thompson - 10 April 2013 at 4:27pm - Comments

Good news! Fracking doesn’t cause earthquakes. Or, to be more precise, hydraulic fracturing for gas is not a significant cause of felt seismic activity. Or, to be even more precise, it does cause earthquakes, but it’s not one of the biggest man-made causes of large (that is, noticeable at the surface) earthquakes. A new study shows that fracking can reactivate dormant faults, but if frackers use 3D seismic imaging, then according to Richard Davies, director of the Durham Energy Institute and study leader, they ‘can avoid faults that are critically stressed and already near breaking point”.

Deforestation takes flight again in the Amazon

Posted by Jess Miller - 8 April 2013 at 5:15pm - Comments

Burning Amazon rainforest: deforestation caused by fires so that forest can be c

Deforestation rates in the Amazon have increased

As some of us were heading off for the Easter holiday weekend, the Brazilian government was quietly releasing deforestation trends showing an increase in deforestation for the first time in five years.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, deforestation, forests, rainforest