Climate Change spawns ‘dirty dozen’
October 14, 2008 at 12:23 am
Dirty dozen
As if melting ice caps, rising sea levels, hurricanes, flooding and drought weren’t enough to worry about, scientists have warned that global warming could unleash a terrifying spread of twelve of the world’s most dangerous diseases.

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Graffiti’s rainbow
September 20, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Greenpeace
When is causing £30,000’s worth of wanton vandalism not a criminal offence? When it’s committed in order to save the planet.

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Palin into significance
September 16, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Sarah Palin
Unless you’ve been living under a giant rock for the past month, you are unlikely to have avoided the irrepressible Sarah Palin.

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Learjet: I’ll be missing you
September 3, 2008 at 6:00 pm
P Diddy
Proving that every noxious greenhouse gas cloud has a silver lining, the credit crunch is having the unexpected effect of forcing even the most wanton climate criminals to go green. Take P Diddy for example. The struggling rap star has had to keep his private jet locked up in the garage and slum it with the general public.

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Libs have a Clegg to stand on
August 22, 2008 at 9:30 am
Nick Clegg
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has called for Britain to embark upon a mission on the scale of the moon landings to end the UK’s dependence on foreign fossil fuels.

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London’s green fleet hits the skids
August 7, 2008 at 9:00 am
Boris
Boris Johnson’s environmental credentials took another battering after he slammed the brakes on the introduction of 60 hydrogen vehicles in London.

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Water Waster
August 1, 2008 at 11:00 am
Water waster
It’s been hailed as the greatest marketing con-trick of the last century - bottling something that falls from the sky for free and selling it to people at more pence per gallon than milk, beer or oil. But at last it seems that consumers are wising up to the environmental impact of mineral water and bottling the bottle.

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Baby no more times
July 29, 2008 at 10:00 am
stop children
In China, you’ve only been supposed to have one since a law was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979.

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On your bike
July 21, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Velib
Free bicycle hire for all might seem like a utopian pipedream, but it’s already happening in Paris and could be a reality in London as early as next summer.

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And so it came to pass…
July 17, 2008 at 3:35 pm
And so ...
If you’re that blase sort of person of the opinion that global warming will only make the summers hotter and at worst drown Norwich, then think again. Global Warming could be coming for you. Or so scientists at the University of Texas are telling us.

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