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Ships work to contain the oil spill ? Sean Gardner/Greenpeace
Will they never learn? Today the Gulf coast of the southern US is facing environmental catastrophe. Over 200,000 gallons of crude oil a day is leaking from the wellhead of the destroyed BP rig Deepwater Horizon, creating a giant slick visible from space.
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Fears that oil slick will get worse after coastguards said a second rig has overturned in the Gulf of Mexico.
The harshest winter for 30 years has caused populations of rare black grouse to fall to their lowest recorded level in northern England, according to conservationists.
David Cameron used the environment to ‘decontaminate’ the Tories. But are the Tories as green as they say they are?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Despite a trend toward going “green,” most U.S. offices get low or average grades for being environmentally friendly and few use renewable energy sources, according to workers in a poll released on Thursday.
A mysterious disease that is threatening to wipe out England’s oaks could alter the landscape even more than Dutch elm disease, foresters have warned.
David Cameron has attempted to regain the green vote with a pledge to launch a ‘low carbon revolution’ and plant a tree for every child born in England.
Families are being forced to separate their rubbish into nine different bins in order to meet tough recycling targets.
Greenpeace have described the Lib Dems plans for the environment as the most ambitious of any party. But both Tory and Labour say their plans to cut carbon to zero without nuclear are unrealistic.
Melting icebergs are causing sea levels to rise, scientists have discovered, but only by a hair’s breadth every year.