In November 2007, Greenpeace released Cooking the Climate, an 82-page report summarising the findings of a two-year investigation that revealed how
the world’s largest food, cosmetic and biofuel companies were driving the
wholesale destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests and peatlands through growing
palm oil consumption.

This follow-up report provides further evidence of the expansion of the palm
sector in Indonesia into remaining rainforests, orang-utan habitat and peatlands
in Kalimantan. It links the majority of the largest producers in Indonesia to
Unilever, probably the largest palm oil corporate consumer in the world.

Conservationists in Kenya have called for a ban on an agricultural pesticide which is killing wildlife.

Roger Highfield reports that another step towards predicting disease hotspots when the next Aids, Ebola or BSE will strike has been taken by scientists.

The promise of super strong medical sutures, bullet proof vests and biodegradable fishing lines made of spider silk may at last be realised, reports Roger Highfield.

Chickens deserve to be treated with a little more respect in light of new evidence about their terrifying T rex ancestry, writes Roger Highfield.

A new process of creating ultra-thin photovoltaic cells has been developed by US researchers - the new cells also have a higher electrical output

Oil is more expensive than it’s ever been, and consumers in the US are starting to feel the burden. has a radical short-term solution

Our recent polls on biofuels and solar energy have shed some interesting light on the public’s opinion of these energy sources. So far, it looks like a majority people believe solar energy has great potential as an energy source, while opinions about biofuels are split almost 50/50. If you browse through our articles you’ll notice many more opinion polls posted at the bottom of each of our articles on topics like tidal energy and more controversial issues like geo-engineering. While all of these polls are great, we thought we’d dedicate a post to finding out just which energy technologies people are most excited about. (more…)

Currently at prototype stage, the novel devices could exploit an enormous resource of reliable, renewable energy

The big money’s behind an ambitious plan to build zero-emission power stations that burn coal or gas