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James Lee, named as hostage taker at Discovery Channel building, had a bizarre record of targeting the TV networkJames Lee, the man police identified as the gunman who entered the headquarters of the Discovery Channel and took a group of hostages, was a self-styled eco-warrior and author of a manife

When you're on a bad run, you're on a bad run. One might have thought that a nut who has taken a hostage at the headquarters of the Discovery network in Silver Spring, Maryland might be from the right, because Discovery devotes lots of admirable programming to saving the environment and the whales a

Controversy erupts over attempts to keep trapped miners' spirits up by censoring bad news in newspapers and family lettersThe 33 trapped Chilean miners were today delivered their first hot meals in nearly a month, as a debate broke out over how much information should be shared with the men before t

Craig Bennett joins us as Director of Policy and Campaigns.

Don't let IPCC reform distract from climate change action

New Policy and Campaigns Director joins Friends of the Earth

A new CD from the British Library has digitally slowed down birdsong to allow the human ear to hear the wealth of hidden notes and melodiesPaddy AllenEric HilaireShiona Tregaskis

I wasn't insulted to be asked to be a podium girl. As long as a hot guy awards me my prize when I triumph - and women's cycle sport gets the attention it deservesAfter reading Helen Pidd's blog, Wanted: top women cyclists (to look pretty), the other week, I had a phone call from someone at British C

Exclusive 'Skeptical Environmentalist' and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing worldThe world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge huma

Political action seems again improbable, but it remains more urgent than everClimate change now reveals itself on a weekly basis. Scientists this month identified a colony of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries both yellow fever and the dengue virus, in the Netherlands. This African insect had

The recent furore surrounding the rebuilding of the ancient stepping stones at the lower end of Dovedale at the behest of the nanny state reminds me that the line of equally ancient stepping stones on the river Derwent upstream of Hathersage were the subject of interference by the do-

With his new book, Danish scientist Bjørn Lomborg has become an unlikely advocate for huge investment in fighting global warming. But his answers are unlikely to satisfy all climate change campaignersFew statisticians can have inspired more passion than Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish academic who became

The Danish economist 'solutions' to climate change still don't address the real issue of CO2 warming the planetFor the last 40 years the American scholar and war critic Noam Chomsky has argued that there is a question missing in the perennial debates about whether the US should go to war against its

Former government chief scientist Sir David King, in the green corner, to take on arch-sceptic Lord Lawson in public showdownThe most prominent climate sceptic and the most vocal advocate of the cause in the UK are to take part in their first public debate on the subject.The "clash of the titans" wi

Ullock Pike towers tar black above as the cyclists start out from Overwater at midnight. Their lamps light the road ahead with Bassenthwaite Lake their next goal, followed by Derwentwater, Thirlmere, Ullswater and Brotherswater, each one arriving like clockwork as leader Barry Johnson, a local fitne

Charity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020European Union countries must drop their biofuels targets or else risk plunging more Africans into hunger and raising carbon emissions, according to Friends of the Earth (Fo

It's right to be anxious. To be completely fatly smugly relaxed about our problematic world is the definition of the Tory soulA basic British political division is not between left and right, or liberal and conservative, but between Schlegel and Wilcox. What separates the two families of EM Forster'

? Government to water down 2016 'zero carbon' target for new homes? Environmentalists call the move a 'travesty'One of the UK's most radical environmental policies - requiring all new homes from 2016 to be "zero carbon" ? is set to be scaled back amid pressure from the housebuilding industry.Builder

Cap-and-trade has had the perverse effect of subsidising politically dominant industries. We should try something elseThese days, it's hard to have inspiring Mr Chips moments when you teach climate change policy. My students at least seem increasingly demoralised by the tepid and technical nature of

As the new school year begins, it's worth thinking about getting an A for your uniformWhile the nation's kids mope into their cornflakes, the apparel trade gets disrespectfully excited about the start of the new school year, with feverish speculation over teen clothing, school uniform and sportswear