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  • Sun shines on US solar sector

    8 March 2014, 2:55 am

    The US Solar sector boomed in 2013, with a record breaking volume of new solar capacity added - almost 5,000MW. And as John Rogers reports, the party is set to carry on through 2014.
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  • Largest US grocery stores say 'no' to GMO salmon

    7 March 2014, 10:45 am

    The two largest grocery stores in the United States, Kroger and Safeway, have promised to not sell GMO salmon. Over 9,000 stores nationwide have now committed to being free of the controversial fish.
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  • The Real Power in Politics

    7 March 2014, 7:25 am

    Environmental campaigner and former politician Donnachadh McCarthy on the power of political lobbyists and the damage they do to democracy.
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  • West Papua's 'Act of Free Choice' - 45 years on

    7 March 2014, 5:30 am

    As global media focus on Crimea's forthcoming referendum on whether to join Russia, we remember another 'Act of Free Choice' in West Papua in 1969 - which set off 45 years of military occupation, theft, repression and murder.
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  • Pentagon warns of climate change 'devastation'

    6 March 2014, 9:49 am

    Unlike many US politicians the Pentagon is a firm believer in climate science. But although it foretells climate devastation on a global scale, reports Steve Horn, it has no credible plan to cut its own gigantic fossil fuel burn.
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  • All at sea - the UK's policies for wave and tidal power

    6 March 2014, 9:06 am

    First the UK made a mess of wind and let Denmark take the prize. And now, writes Godfrey Boyle, the government's prevarication is risking our lead in another key renewable energy sector - marine power.
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  • Redwood thieves force California forest curfew

    5 March 2014, 2:20 pm

    Thieves are stealing valuable growths of bud tissue from the trunks of Coast redwood trees in California, putting their long term survival at risk. Park authorities have responded by closing a road used by the thieves at night.
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  • Pollution - EU takes UK to court

    5 March 2014, 10:27 am

    The European Commission has launched legal proceedings against the UK for persistent air pollution problems - specifically its failure to cut toxic oxides of nitrogen, known as 'NOx'.
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  • The floods - blaming the climate change messengers

    5 March 2014, 10:01 am

    Mainstream media reporting of the recent UK storms rapidly degenerated into narratives of blame focused on environmentalists, writes George Marshall. It's time they uncovered the real villains!
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  • Fracking's radioactive legacy - we lack the technology

    5 March 2014, 7:27 am

    Fracking operations produce radioactive waste derived from naturally occurring uranium and thorium - until now, safely buried deep underground. And right now the industry has neither a plan, nor the technology, to deal with it.
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  • First Americans lived on Beringia for thousands of years

    5 March 2014, 7:15 am

    The ancestors of America's Indians lived in Beringia - the land exposed during the last ice age that is now the Bering Strait - for millennia, genetic studies have determined. Scott Armstrong Elias reports.
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  • Fracking is the death spasm of a defunct economic order

    5 March 2014, 5:11 am

    Political support for fracking is not just about energy, writes Paul Mobbs. It reflects the greater ecological and resource crisis at the root of our current economic woes - and only postpones the essential shift to a new kind of economy.
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  • Fukushima - all charges dropped

    4 March 2014, 12:13 pm

    Japanese prosecutors have dropped all charges against Tepco, the operator of the stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima, along with senior Government officials.
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  • GMOs show 'substantial non-equivalence'

    4 March 2014, 8:38 am

    New studies document substantial differences of GM maize and GM soybean from their non-GM counterparts, writes Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji - exposing a permissive regulatory regime that has failed miserably in protecting public health and safety.
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  • UK taxpayer will be liable for Hinkley C billions

    4 March 2014, 5:21 am

    The EPR nuclear reactor is a busted flush. The two examples under construction in France and Finland are way over time, and budget. If the UK goes ahead with an EPR at Hinkley Point in Somerset, writes David Toke, the taxpayer will pay a huge price ...
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  • Maybe we can all learn from smaller islands?

    3 March 2014, 12:27 pm

    Europe's periphories are meant to be in a state of collapse - but not so the Shetland Isles, where Thembi Mutch found a land of open skies, howling storms, historic traditions, and an active, growing community of notable individuals ...
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  • Defender of the Rockies

    3 March 2014, 9:45 am

    For sheer guts, vision and results, a single organisation stands out among the US's environmental defenders - the Alliance for the Wild Rockies. Jeffrey St. Clair met its leader, Mike Garrity, winner of 2014's Grassroots Activist Award.
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  • Nepal's year of zero poaching

    3 March 2014, 7:00 am

    Nepal has added a new milestone in conservation by achieving zero poaching of rhinos, tigers and elephants for the year period ending in February 2014.
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  • Rising sea levels threaten Los Angeles

    2 March 2014, 5:58 am

    As much of California and the western US endures a severe drought, the city of Los Angeles is at increasing risk from rising sea levels. Tim Radford reports on the risks to the 12,000 square mile conurbation.
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  • Natural gas field discovered on Gaza's coast

    1 March 2014, 12:58 pm

    The besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza now enjoys the prospect of energy independence - a huge gain as fuel supplies to Gaza have restricted by Israel and Egypt. The big question - will Israel allow the gas field's development?
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  • Woods and trees are functioning parts of a living landscape

    28 February 2014, 2:54 pm

    Trees, woodlands and hedgerows do much more than enhance the appearance of Britain's rural landscapes, writes Mike Townsend. They diminish flooding, reduce erosion, assist water infiltration, enhance biodiversity - and we need more of them!
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  • The chemical dangers in food packaging

    28 February 2014, 12:41 pm

    The long-term effects of synthetic chemicals used in packaging, food storage and processing food could be damaging our health, scientists have warned. Jo Adetunji reports.
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  • Are we recreating a 3 million year-old past?

    28 February 2014, 11:53 am

    Our emissions of greenhouse gases may end up recreating the conditions of the Pliocene era of 2.6 to 5.3 million years ago. Warm and wet, life could still thrive, writes Richard Pancost. As for a 40 metre rise in sea level ...
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  • Small is the New Big

    28 February 2014, 9:18 am

    Vandana Shiva reminds us that the very future of food security in India (and indeed worldwide) lies in protecting and promoting the country's small farmers.
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  • We must protect NHS democracy

    28 February 2014, 8:15 am

    The UK's Coalition Government told us it wanted to hand control of the NHS to patients. In truth, writes Caroline Lucas MP, it is attacking NHS democracy on every side.
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