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A planet in peril
Oxfam's Phil Bloomer wonders whether the positive signals about a US change of direction on climate change under Obama will be met by the right response in Europe
Climate change - are we doing enough?
Are plans to cut carbon emissions by 60 per cent enough to stave off the worst effects of climate change?
Has global warming really stopped?
Mark Lynas responds to a controversial article on newstatesman.com which argued global warming has stopped
Nuclear fallout
The government’s commitment to nuclear power will undermine national and environmental security for decades
Has global warming stopped?
'The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001'. Plus read Mark Lynas's response
And the biggest NGO in Bali?
Who is actually attending the Bali climate conference
Blogging Bali
The World Development Movement's Peter Hardstaff reports from the Bali conference on climate change
Not the general election
Instead of the 1 November election and in association with The Fabians we've asked a range of people their views on the direction Gordon Brown should be taking ahead of what is expected to be a 2009 poll. Look out for Clare Short, Anthony Giddens, Shami Chakrabarti and more. Then why not add your own five point plan?
Zac, are you serious?
On 13 September, Sian gave her reaction to the Tory Quality of Life group's report. Then we gave its co-author Zac Goldsmith, a right of reply. Here Sian answers back.
Green papers, white lies, hot air
Britain's policy on global warming remains mired in confusion, with too much debate and too little action. But there is a solution ...
The mother of all injunctions
In our first Heathrow Climate Camp report Plane Stupid's Robbie Gillett gives his take on BAA's injunction
Positive energy
The terrifying prospect of a post-oil future: no more ready meals, traffic jams or lonely nights in front of television.
Nuclear: The risks remain
Incidents involving reactors in Germany and Japan have again demonstrated the dangers of nuclear power, writes German Green MEP Rebecca Harms
It is not right, and it is not a right, to fly all the time
Cheap air travel is leading us to squander earth's limited natural energy resources. Alex Owen tells us to stop
Round table: The future for energy
Alistair Darling MP and other top energy experts discuss the most important issues surrounding energy and how best to solve them
Bush's bluff has been called by China
Even for George Bush, the apostle of climate-change deniers, an out-and-out obstructionist US position is no longer tenable
Fred Flintstone didn't drive a gas guzzler...
Has global warming replaced Communism as an anti-capitalist weapon? Read Ruth Lea and don't miss comments from Minister Ian Pearson and more
Seven reasons why your lightbulb matters
Lib Dem international development spokeswoman Lynne Featherstone explains why she thinks everyone can make a difference on the environment
Climate change: Why we don't believe it
We reveal an unreported gulf between the pronouncements of campaigners and politicians and British public opinion plus in the comments below we have responses from David Miliband, Peter Ainsworth, Sian Berry, Friends of the Earth and more...
Reason and light
John Houghton tells Caspar Henderson how he convinced the leaders of 30-40 million evangelical Christians in the US to get serious about climate change
Fidel Castro
The last revolutionary
Steve Richards
On Tory policy
Science
Religion and Darwin
James Macintyre
Miliband's dilemma
Will Self
On Oscar Wilde
Film review
Bright Star
Books
Paul Auster
Interview
Alain de Botton
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