Our favourite video of the week examines this year's State of Union address reveals and what it reveals about the US Administration's stance on clean energy and climate change. Take a look above.... Read more »

Severe flooding that could affect millions of people is the United Kingdom's most pressing climate-change risk, says a study released yesterday by the country's government. ... Read more »

Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week inNew Scientist magazine.... Read more »

Greenpeace has filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over TransCanada’s “false or misleading statements about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project.”... Read more »

According to the affidavit, the Prime Minister's Office has informed Tides Canada CEO, Ross McMillan, that it considers ForestEthics to be an "Enemy of the Government of Canada", and an "Enemy of the people of Canada", and that unless Tides Canada alters its charitable support of... Read more »

With a 0.68 degrees Celsius increase in temperature so far in India, it is expected that there will be pronounced warming in future, particularly during the post monsoon period and winter. This could have disastrous effects on agriculture and food security.... Read more »

The City of Bogota, Colombia, has launched an innovative pilot project to spur the use of electric vehicles by introducing 50 electric cars into Bogota's center-city taxi fleet.... Read more »

UK scientists have detected a huge dome of fresh water that is developing in the western Arctic Ocean. The bulge is some 8,000 cubic km in size and has risen by about 15cm since 2002.... Read more »

'Forecast the Facts' calls out 47 well-known TV weatherman for deliberately misleading the public on climate change.... Read more »

Food prices and security, threatened by weather-caused production declines and relentless rising demand, will be a key issue at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the conference of world business, political and social leaders.... Read more »

Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly $500 billion in 2010, in contrast to just $66 billion for renewable energy. ... Read more »

President Obama confirmed his commitment to clean energy and to environmental and public health protections in his State of the Union Address last night. He celebrated the extraordinary growth of the clean energy economy, and he laid out a plan to create more clean energy jobs an... Read more »

Reports by non-governmental organizations show that the companies that developed the Jubilee field, and the World Bank Group officials who lent hundreds of millions of dollars to jumpstart the project, were aware of the risks from the beginning. What’s also clear is that everyo... Read more »

With all of the activity and energy marking the end of 2011, it’s not surprising to see our partners and allies in the climate movement taking some much needed time to regroup, plan and prepare for the challenges of 2012. Not to say they haven’t stopped fighting - far from it... Read more »

New Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said yesterday that Spain supports the introduction of a Financial Transaction Tax. Speaking at a joint press conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Madrid, Rajoy confirmed that France could count on Spain's "political support", sayi... Read more »

Over the last few weeks, Keystone XL has become a major political fight as Congress and Big Oil (now there are two popular institutions) have tried to slam the project down the American people’s throats, despite the fact that President Obama already delayed the project for at l... Read more »

The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time is making available detailed information on sources of greenhouse gas emissions, from the Mount Sinai Hospital heating plant in Manhattan to the nation’s largest coal-burning power plant in Georgia.... Read more »

The water supplied by the glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca, vital to a huge region of northwest Peru, is decreasing 20 years sooner than expected, according to a new study.... Read more »

A startling new study from the Center for Global Development shows that full development of the Canadian Tar Sands would have a devastating effect on global food production, especially in climate vulnerable continents such as Africa.... Read more »

Religious groups large and small across the state have expressed their concerns about the state’s ridge tops over the 40 days.... Read more »

China’s accelerated growth parallels the emergence of a new urban middle class. Studies estimate that 14 per cent of the current Chinese population belongs to the middle class, and this percentage will only grow further. These citizens are economically better off, well-edu... Read more »

Mexico’s social development secretary says an estimated 600,000 households suffered property damage or crop losses due to an unusual combination of floods, drought and freezing weather in 2011.... Read more »

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic clock focused on how close we are to tremendous global catastrophe… or doomsday, was moved from 6 minutes to midnight to 5 minutes to midnight today.... Read more »

Scotland is poised to sign a renewable energy technology research deal in the Middle East. Under the agreement, the Energy Technology Partnership - a union of 12 Scottish universities - will develop green energy products with Masdar.... Read more »

Experts say the slow formation of winter ice on Hudson Bay this year has pushed some of Canada's polar bears to the brink of starvation and forced them to scrounge for food near old garbage dumps.... Read more »

Last year, global corporate and venture capital investments in cleantech grew 13% over 2010, reaching almost $9 billion, according to preliminary figures released from the Cleantech Group.... Read more »

Creating a different system of accounting for climate change -- one that puts all countries on an even legal playing field while still remaining sensitive to different levels of wealth and historic emissions -- promises to be a politically fraught and divisive task.... Read more »

2011 was a year of changes and challenges. As millions suffered through the impacts of extreme weather and climate change, our partners in the climate movement rose up for them and with them. The victories of 2011 were hard fought, and they give us the foundation upon which our c... Read more »

At an event in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that utility ComEd will invest $2.6 billion into modernizing its power grid, including building out a smart grid using Silver Spring Network’s technology, and creating thousands of jobs in the process.... Read more »

Nigerian villagers say oil washing up on the coast comes from a Royal Dutch Shell loading accident last month that caused the biggest spill in Africa’s top producer in more than 13 years. Shell denies that any of the oil is from its 200,000 barrel per day Bonga facility, 12... Read more »