Climate Change

Prime Minster David Cameron has turned his back on his pledge to give the British public a vote on EU membership.

The foundation aims to help and support anyone suffering from drug related problems, and could include the induction of a rehabilitation centre.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair believes politicians must get their relationship with the media on "better footing".

A new report from the U.K.'s Energy and Climate Change Committee on Ofgem's Retail Market Review has demanded that companies pay compensation after it discovered that numerous energy companies were mis-selling electricity and gas.

According to experts, day after day, Bangkok sinks, with the most pessimistic saying part of Thailand's capital could be submerged by 2030, Le Monde has reported.Specialists have also warned that special preventive policies should be implemented as in the case the natural disaster does take place, thousands of lives could be at stake.

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An independent review of the BBC's science coverage has indicated that the news agency gives far too much credence to fringe views that border on opinion rather than fact.

During a climate change debate at the National Press Club in Canberra Australia, Lord Christopher Monckton argued that cutting emissions to curb global warming is like trying to "swat" an asteroid away with a cricket bat.

While announcing that the U.K. had exceeded its target to reduce its carbon emissions, Energy Secretary Chris Huhne warned that global warming and its affects could reverse the progress of civilisation leading to all-out wars between nations.

China's soaring coal consumption in the last decade held back global warming as sulfur emissions served as a coolant, according to a study led by Boston University.

A new study into climate change has revealed that Brits may soon be forced to contend with much harsher winters, with as many as one in seven casting the country into sub-zero temperatures for pro-longed periods.

New research has revealed that all current data regarding climate change may be inaccurate as sulphur emissions from Chinese coal powered power stations mask the real data.

The remarkable weather extremes of the past decade, including this year's Queensland and Victorian floods, were not caused by global warming, according to one of Australia's most eminent climate scientists.

Just two days after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11, U.K officials reportedly contacted energy companies warning that they could not allow the disaster to dent public support for nuclear power.

Shares in Stagecoach were down on the FTSE 250 in morning trading after the group reported a rise in pre-tax profit in the full year ended 30 April.

Britain and China unveiled a series of deals worth 1.4 billion pounds ($2.3 billion) during a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday, including a new agreement between energy group BG Group and Bank of China to help BG expand there.

UK Government plans published yesterday revealed that Wales faces the prospect of new nuclear power stations in the north and near the south coast.

On 21 June 2011, the first sea-ice thickness map of the Arctic was presented by the European Space Agency (ESA) at the Paris Air and Space Show. From an altitude of just over 700 km and reaching unprecedented latitudes of 88º ESA's CryoSat mission has spent the last seven months delivering precise measurements to determine changes in the thickness of Earth's ice, which is necessary to fully understand how climate change is affecting the fragile Polar Regions.

The state of the world's oceans are in a far worse state than ever previously suspected according to a new report from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean. The new report has detailed the severe damage the human race has directly and indirectly had on the world's oceans.

ust a few days after the 2011 G8 summit in Deauville, Oxfam warns that the prices of staple foods will more than double in 20 years unless world leaders take action to reform the global food system.According to the organisation's forecast, by 2030, the average cost of key crops will increase by between 120% and 180% and insists that half of that increase will be caused by climate change.In its newly published report, "Growing a better future", the charity calls on world leaders ...

Created as part of a French initiative to address the first oil crisis in 1975, the G8 is an informal group of advanced economies, which meets once a year at a Summit of Heads of State and Government.

Us President Barack Obama's trip to Europe is indeed quite a trip as it will include visits to Ireland, Britain, France and Poland and a G-8 summit. The visit will start with Ireland, and finish with Poland.

The government's new environmental deal counters criticism from environmental charities that the coalition is failing to live up to its ambition of becoming the "greenest government ever".

Shares in Drax were down on the FTSE 250 in morning trading despite the power station owner reporting a rise in earnings and pre-tax profit in the full year ended 31 December 2010.

Last night BBC Four aired a documentary which took a look at climate change sceptics and in particular one of the movement's most prominent poster boys, Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount of Brenchley.

Powerfuel Plc, the owner of Hatfield Colliery and Powerfuel Ltd, has gone into administration, it was announced today.

The latest Wikileaks "revelations" have got the internet and the media all abuzz with excitement and yet they pale into insignificance when compared with the leaked emails by a group of scientists in what came to be known as "Climategate".

With the Comprehensive Spending Review to be announced this month Chancellor George Osborne is set to tell the country what he the government will be spending taxpayer's money on, or perhaps more accurately, what the government will no longer be spending taxpayer's money on.

Labour's new leader and possible next UK Prime Minister, will be announced on the 25th of this month. The contest started from the moment Gordon Brown conceded defeat and stood down as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party after May's General Election gave the Conservatives the largest number of seats, though not a clear majority. There are five candidates standing: Diane Abbott, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham, David Miliband and his brother, Ed Miliband. These candidates offer those e...