Environment
Branson offers £10m to the person who can prevent the climate change crisis
Published: 09 February 2007
Sir Richard Branson is raising his game as "saviour of the planet" .
Snow falls - and much of Britain comes to a predictable standstill
Published: 09 February 2007
A flurry of snow slowed down southern Britain yesterday and brought much of it grinding to a halt.
Inuit accuse US of destroying their way of life with global warming
Published: 09 February 2007
A delegation of Inuit is to travel to Washington DC to provide first-hand testimony of how global warming is destroying their way of life and to accuse the Bush administration of undermining their human rights.
Sabina Ali: 'By the fourth or fifth train, I managed to squeeze on '
Published: 09 February 2007
Saviour of the planet - or a space-hopping hypocrite?
Published: 09 February 2007
The latest "green" offering by Sir Richard Branson has much to commend it. If scientists can devise a sustainable and cheap way of capturing and storing the CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere, it could amount to a huge breakthrough in tackling climate change.
Global warming 'Live Aid' planned
Published: 09 February 2007
A day of concerts across the globe intended to exceed Live Aid in scale and ambition is to be held this summer to highlight the issue of climate change.
Could avian flu spell end free range eggs?
Published: 08 February 2007
Peter Barton is as uneasy as the rest of them. The organic poultry farmer has 50,000 hens scuttling around his fields in East Sussex. He, like many farmers, thought if anyone was going to be hit by bird flu, it would be someone like him. "We are obviously very concerned about what has happened, but it's not a total surprise," he says. "We've been expecting this for the last two or three years. However, I am very surprised how it turned up on an intensive farm rather than on one of ours. They are able to have much higher biosecurity. Our birds just run around and come into close contact with all things wild and natural. It flies in the face of logic. Something has gone wrong somewhere."
Climate campaign issues 'wake-up call' to world leaders
Published: 07 February 2007
George Bush, Vladimir Putin and Jacques Chirac are in bed, fast asleep. All around them the evidence of climate change is clear and pressing but nothing can rouse the world leaders from their slumber.
Waste firms 'exporting non-recyclable rubbish'
Published: 07 February 2007
Private firms are routinely breaking the law on the export of British rubbish to the developing world, say the Government's environmental investigators.
The former banker advertising his green conversion
Published: 06 February 2007
Peter Myers remembers his environmental epiphany very clearly. As a corporate financier working in the frenzied atmosphere of the City in the late 1990s he was responsible for a £100m portfolio of loans on behalf of his employer, a company in the NatWest group.
Carbon-free living: China's green leap forward
Published: 06 February 2007
Compost heap could help in the war on waste
Published: 06 February 2007
Shoppers are being encouraged to solve the problem of excess packaging by taking direct action and dumping trays and wrappers in their gardens.
British abroad: 'The amount of frivolous travel is a problem'
Published: 06 February 2007
The founders of Lonely Planet have condemned "frivolous" British travellers who fly to European cities with no real sense of purpose.
Stores 'should be responsible for disposal of packaging'
Published: 05 February 2007
Shops should be forced to provide containers for customers to dump packaging in before they leave the store, one of Parliament's senior environmentalists says.
Green: They are. Are you?
Published: 04 February 2007
Chirac leads calls for new UN body to save the environment
Published: 04 February 2007
More than 40 countries are backing calls for an international organisation to police governments that fail to act against climate change. It would also fight threats such as global warming, water shortages and the loss of species.
Doomed: the songstress of the deep
Published: 04 February 2007
Global warming: the final warning
Published: 03 February 2007
UN delivers definitive warning on dangers of climate change
Published: 03 February 2007
A terrifying leap in average global temperatures of 6.4C with higher figures nearer the poles could occur over the next century, according to the most authoritative report yet on global warming.
North Sea gas and oil boom threatens dolphins
Published: 03 February 2007
Marine conservationists have called for permanent protection of one of the UK's most important colonies of dolphins which is being threatened by a boom in North Sea oil and gas exploration.
Supermarkets discover shoppers hate excess packaging
Published: 03 February 2007
Supermarkets have detected considerable annoyance among their customers about excessive packaging, as The Independent's campaign against waste gathers support from politicians and stores.
The temperature is rising - and humans are to blame
Published: 03 February 2007
It's a pretty grim conclusion: greenhouse gas reduction targets being talked about to stop climate change will not now avoid potentially catastrophic rises in global average temperatures, yesterday's report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), makes clear.
Carbon dioxide rate is at highest level for 650,000 years
Published: 03 February 2007
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at their highest levels for at least 650,000 years and this rise began with the birth of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
All pupils to be given climate change lessons
Published: 02 February 2007
MPs and retailers rally behind campaign to reduce packaging
Published: 02 February 2007
MPs backed The Independent's campaign against excess packaging in the Commons yesterday, as retailers promised to cut back on unnecessary plastic and cardboard. Asda pledged to dump packaging on fresh fruit and vegetables, and Tesco signalled that it will announce a new initiative later this year,
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