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Of Shell, spill plans and sea ice

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...
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Opencast South Wales

WAGing the Environment

If you visit the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff Bay or one of its regional offices in Llandrindod or Merthyr Tydfil you will be told about how sustainability is...
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Irradiating Democracy #2

Britain's nuclear weapons are up for renewal. In 2015 the UK's Government has to decide whether or not to upgrade the Trident weapons system. Or rather that is...
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Irradiating Democracy

Irradiating Democracy Yesterday saw the by-election for the welsh assembly seat on Ynys Mon (Angelsy)  All the candidates except the Socialist Labour...
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UK failing to protect the Arctic from drilling, warn M.P.'s

The coalition government is failing to protect the Arctic from drilling for oiland gas, by allowing new projects to go ahead with too little...
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Another Day, Another Anti Windfarm letter in the Western Mail

Another day, another anti wind letter in the Western Mail. Mr Ivor Rees rails against Pen Y Cymoedd windfarm on the Western Mail letters page saying it will...
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James Delingpole

The strange tale of the lights that went out...but then didn't...!

  James Delingpole is back and he's angry! Be in no doubt about that....the reason he's so angry is because the lights it now seems are staying on and...
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Reasons to be cheerful: Parts one , two and three...

Reasons to be Cheerful, Parts one, Two and Three....  The first reason to be cheerful this week is that the Republican Party did not oppose President...
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Egypt: A taste of things to come?

Last week's ousting of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian army comes as no surprise. Despite being Egypt's first freely elected leader, his attempts...
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10 Dumbest things said about Global Warmimg

The 10 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Global Warming BY BROOKE JARVIS A list of the dumbest things ever said about global warming is, sadly, almost impossible...
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Middelgrunden offshore windfarm in Denmark

Dirty Fossil Minority

This month the government  announced that local communities would get a say in energy policies-a breakthrough it would seem regarding local democracy....
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Save the Climate hot air balloon

Hey G8, What about the Climate?

Hey G8, what about the climate? Posted by Daniel Mittler - 17 June 2013 at 10:06am All rights reserved. Credit: Robert Visser As leaders of...
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IMPORTANT: Change of local group meeting time

Please note our local group meeting will now be on the 20th June at 7.30pm instead of the 13th of june as previously advertised.
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Kumi Naidoo in front of the Rainbow Warrior

The last tree or the last straw

The Greenpeace office in Istanbul has been under siege. It is in the heart of Taksim, an area in which a brutal police clampdown has been trying to end the...
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Documents reveal UK govt. support for Canadian tar sands

The UK appears set to change its position and push the EU to allow the import of carbon-intensive oil from Tar Sands. Read, search and annotate the...
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Frank & Go

Flaring-More bad news when it comes to fracking...

The UK's two largest Fracking companies have admitted they plan to burn some of the gas they extract as part of the process of drilling for oil and gas,...
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Championing small-scale fishermen in court battle for fairer quotas

Imagine if someone claimed ownership of a percentage of the sparrows in the sky or a share of the deer in our forests? Would this seem absurd to you? I...
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Save the Bees

Buzz killers: UK blocking bee-killing pesticide ban Posted by Graham Thompson - 25 April 2013 at 12:47pm - 2 Comments All rights reserved...
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Arctic/Swansea

Saving the Arctic in Swansea

We're often cynically told that green issues are of no interest to 'ordinary' people especially in these austere times. And yet today in Swansea , South...
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Wind cheaper than gas

Imagine a wind turbine so big that it would take Usain Bolt 19.32 seconds to run across the 200m diameter of its blades (before plunging tragically into the...
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