Muslim civil rights group demands apology from Jeff Goldblum
Muslim Advocates, a civil rights group for American Muslims, has called on actor Jeff Goldblum to apologise for anti-Muslim remarks he made on the most recent episode of RuPaul’s Drag…
New research reveals impact of microplastics on marine wildlife
New research has revealed the impact of microplastics on marine wildlife. In recent years public awareness of the plastic pollution problem has soared, but our understanding of how this impacts…
Five bits of environment news you don’t want to miss – week 1
In another eventful week for British politics, there was some good and some less good environment news around the world. Here are five stories from this week that you wouldn’t…
How Evo Morales is fuelling the Bolivian forest fires
Devastating fires caused by human activity have been raging in two of the world’s most important forest areas in Bolivia and Brazil over the last couple of weeks; the Chiquitania…
All eyes are on the Amazon – but another forest is on fire too
As the world’s media finally begins to cover the shocking fires that have been devastating the Amazon Rainforest, which produces 20 per cent of our planet’s oxygen and is home…
BP: Very much business as usual
BP, the British oil major which produces million barrels of oil per day and brought in $ billion in profit in 2018, has been running a PR campaign under the…
Nuclear – a dirty, dangerous and expensive waste
Nuclear power, since its first commercial application in the 1950s, has been thought to offer relatively clean and reliable energy in large enough quantities to meet humanity’s continually growing demand…
Boris Johnson would let the planet burn
Image credit: Andrew Parsons, Creative Commons It’s hard to work out what Boris Johnson, who took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom yesterday, genuinely believes. This is particularly…
The government’s proposed carbon charge for airlines misses the mark
Image credit: Solvay Group, Creative Commons The Department for Transport has proposed to offset the CO2 emissions produced by various modes of transport, most significantly airplanes, by introducing a new…
The EU is subsidising Ryanair’s carbon emissions
Image credit: Bart Busschots, Creative Commons As the number of people flying regularly continues to rise, CO2 emissions from aviation have soared, rising by in the last five years in…