The Competition Commission - the government body charged with investigating whether companies are stifling competition within markets - has published its 'emerging thinking' document on the actions of the major supermarkets.
Pictures available online for the first time show that the effects of global warming are far worse than previously expeced. The images produced by the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Meteorological Office, show for the first time that the Stern Review's timeline for action is wrong.
When a group calling itself Sense About Science launched its 'Science for celebrities' pamphlet in the national media last month, it was supposed to look like the long-overdue backlash of a normally passive science community to years of misinformation from ill-informed celebrities.
Collusion between UK carbon trading firms and Chinese factories is allowing them to make big profits without any significant reduction in carbon emissions.
The government will announce voluntary standards today to regulate carbon off-setting programmes - the schemes by which environmentally friendly projects such as planting trees are undertaken to 'off-set' the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.
84 plot owners at Manor Gardens allotments in East London are soon to have their lovingly tended vegetables bulldozed for the 2012 olympic games. We asked the gardeners, including one man who has held his plot for fifty years, how they felt about the London Development Agency's decision, and what they plan to do now.
Reports from Downing Street officials that US President George Bush was to use next week’s State of the Union address to announce a successor to the Kyoto protocols have been denied by Tony Snow, a Senior White House spokesman.
The European Commission has set out plans to keep global temperatures from increasing more than 2 degrees. The authors said that limiting global warming to 2ºC is both technically feasible and economically affordable if the international community acts swiftly.
Caroline Lucas was arrested on 8th January for protesting against the Trident missile system at the Faslane naval base in Scotland. She spoke to the Ecologist shortly after her release to talk about the illegality of the weapon, and why politicians should be spending less time in the House, and more time under the placard...
Graham Thompson, from the pressure group 'Plane Stupid', talks to the Ecologist about facing an ASBO, what needs to be done about aviation, and who's next on the target list. Watch out, O'Leary...
