Mining giant has approval for eight wells in New South Wales, but environmentalists say plans to protect water are unclear Mining giant Santos must “come clean” on its plans to deal with millions of litres of waste water it will produce at new coal seam gas wells, New South Wales environmentalists say. The NSW government…

Falling in love with a new technology and wanting to apply it everywhere is not a good idea Will nanotechnology become an object of harsh controversy like genetically modified organisms? Or will it take the path of the less controversial stem cell therapy? What lessons can be learned from past innovations, in order to avoid…

London court may now decide how much firm should pay 11,000 fishermen and others who lost incomes when pipeline burst Niger delta communities devastated by giant oil spills from rusting Shell pipelines have unanimously rejected a compensation offer from the company, calling it an insult, and cruel and derisory. A court in London is now…

Beijing unveils measures to close old polluting mills and smelters and cut coal use to halt worsening air pollution China has revealed sweeping measures to tackle air pollution, with plans to close old polluting steel mills, cement factories and aluminium smelters, and slash coal consumption and boost the use of nuclear power and natural gas….

By Alan Buis, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Steve Cole, NASA’s Headquarters A NASA-led team of scientists has uncovered strong evidence that soot from a rapidly industrializing Europe caused the abrupt retreat of mountain glaciers in the European Alps that began in the 1860s, a period often thought of as the end of the Little Ice…

By Fiona Harvey / The Guardian A major survey of the coral reefs of the Caribbean is expected to reveal the extent to which one of the world’s biggest and most important reserves of coral has been degraded by climate change, pollution, overfishing and degradation. The Catlin scientific survey will undertake the most comprehensive survey…

There’s widеѕрrеаd соnѕеnѕuѕ among thе ѕсiеntifiс соmmunitу thаt humаn асtivitiеѕ аrе аltеring thе Earth’s climate thrоugh inсrеаѕеd grееnhоuѕе gаѕ еmiѕѕiоnѕ, саuѕing thе potential fоr lаrgе-ѕсаlе аdvеrѕе hеаlth, ѕосiаl, есоnоmiс аnd есоlоgiсаl еffесtѕ. Thеrе’ѕ also an abundance of ѕсiеntifiс evidence thаt many оf the рrеdiсtеd еnvirоnmеntаl changes аrе now occurring. Whаt mау nоt bе ѕо clear…