An Open Letter to Obama from the World’s Poorest Countries

"As president you have helped those who cause climate change more than those affected most by it. Helping the world's poorest adapt is now a matter of urgency, and it can be your great legacy"

Dear President Obama, As the lead negotiator for the world's 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the United Nations climate change negotiations, I congratulate you on your re-election. I also want to express my admiration for your response to superstorm Sandy: without…
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by: The Guardian UK – November 9, 2012

Sandy Puts Climate Change Back on the US Election Agenda

Bill Clinton and Al Gore among those calling for fresh focus on issue that neither candidate mentioned in televised debates

The images of a paralysed New York City at the mercy of Hurricane Sandy's wall of water have forced climate change on to the political agenda in the final week of the 2012 presidential election campaign. Even before Sandy made landfall political…
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by: The Guardian UK – November 1, 2012

Noc the Talking Whale Has Told Us to Get Out of the Water

The beluga's attempted 'speech' echoes a canary in the mine – and only serves to emphasise the distance between our species

In the 18th century, whalers who heard whales singing beneath their ships believed they were listening to the souls of drowned men. The notion of the silent ocean having a voice seemed so improbable. It wasn't until the Second World War and…
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by: The Guardian UK – October 23, 2012

Ash Tree Threat Reminds Us That When We Lose Wildlife, We Lose Stories

Nature has far-reaching roots, not least the magnificent ash tree and its European mythology. Both could be lost to die-back

Photo by Roger Sanderson By George Monbiot Reading the shocking news about ash die-back, the disease that has now killed most of Denmark's ash treesand many of those across the rest of norther Europe, I was reminded that when we lose our…
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by: The Guardian UK – October 15, 2012

Japan Drops Plans to Phase Out Nuclear Power by 2040

Cabinet fails to commit to no-nuclear option by agreed deadline amid pressure from business lobby

Japan has effectively abandoned a commitment to end its reliance on nuclear power by 2040 amid pressure from the country's business lobby, dropping a deadline recommended by a cabinet panel only days ago. Photo by Matthias LambrechtA 2011 anti-nuclear protest in Koenjiminami…
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by: The Guardian UK – September 19, 2012

Dolphin Murals Spark Marine Awareness Campaign in Philippines

A painter's spontaneous reaction to slaughter of dolphins shown in The Cove turns into a movement for protecting ocean life

After watching a documentary about the annual slaughter of 23,000 dolphins that takes place in Taiji, Japan, Filipino artist and environmental activist AG Sano was so overcome with emotion that he quit his job and dedicated himself to giving life back to these dolphins,…
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by: The Guardian UK – September 13, 2012

Facebook Reveals its Carbon Footprint

Data shows social networking site's annual emissions are significantly less than those of Google's

Facebook has, for the first time, revealed the carbon footprint of its operations and its more than 900m users' likes, photo albums and status updates. Photo by Dave RuttThe annual footprint for each active user is 269 grams a month, or around…
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by: The Guardian UK – August 1, 2012

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