Economic slump may limit moves on clean energy
International Herald Tribune | 25 Nov 2008
From Italy to China, a poor global economy and plunging prices of coal and oil are upending plans to wean businesses and consumers from fossil fuel.
 United Kingdom | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Global Warming

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cash row at wildlife trade forum
BBC | 18 Jun 2007
A budget row dominated the final day of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) forum.
 Biodiversity | Threatened Species

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | World 'failing on hunger pledges'
BBC | 31 Oct 2006
Little progress has been made in tackling world hunger despite pledges by leaders to halve the number who are underfed, the UN's food agency says.
 Food Security

Shell Ordered to Appear by Nigerian Court
Friends of the Earth- England, Wales and N.Ireland. | 12 Apr 2006
The Federal High Court of Nigeria today (Tuesday 11 April) ordered the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (Shell Nigeria) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to end flaring in Iwherekan community (Nigeria) by April 2007 and to appear in court in person on 31 May with a detailed plan to this effect.
 Nuclear Power | Energy Consumption | Renewable Energy | Gas-Fired Power Plants | Fossil Fuels | Hydropower | Economics and the Environment | Impacts on Ecosystems | Energy Conservation

Contempt case for Shell over gas
BBC | 26 Dec 2005
The oil multinational Shell is facing contempt of court proceedings in Nigeria over gas flaring.
 Nuclear Power | Energy Consumption | Renewable Energy | Gas-Fired Power Plants | Fossil Fuels | Hydropower | Economics and the Environment | Impacts on Ecosystems | Energy Conservation

US and British interest in Nigerian oil fuel fears of "another Iraq"
Environment Times | 30 Nov 2005
In a week that is seeing record prices for natural gas in the UK and the UK Government prepares to launch an energy review, peers and MPs gathered in the House of Lords on Thursday to hear about the role of an increasingly unstable Nigeria in US and UK energy security plans.
 Nuclear Power | Energy Consumption | Renewable Energy | Gas-Fired Power Plants | Fossil Fuels | Hydropower | Transport | Urban Environment | Aviation

'Historic' decision on Nigeria's gas flaring
Green Consumer Guide | 21 Nov 2005
Environmental campaigners have welcomed a Nigerian Federal High Court judgment this week that ordered oil companies to stop oil companies from gas flaring in the region, calling it an historic decision.
 Nuclear Power | Energy Consumption | Renewable Energy | Gas-Fired Power Plants | Fossil Fuels | Hydropower | Urban Environment | Urban Pollution | Economics and the Environment

The Shell Report: Continuing Abuses
Friends of the Earth- Scotland | 11 Nov 2005
As the world marks the 10th anniversary of the state murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other leaders of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), the Environmental Rights Action (ERA)/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (FoEN) has today published a report that details environmental and social practices of Shell in the Niger Delta.
 Transport | Urban Environment | Aviation | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Encroachment on Ecosystems | Urban Planning | Local Environment Initiatives | Urban Ecosystems | Corporate Social Responsibility

Shell faces flaring lawsuit
Guardian Unlimited | 21 Jun 2005
Shell and its partners yesterday found themselves facing a legal suit from local rural communities and western environmentalists over allegations of causing pollution and global warming by flaring gas in Nigeria.
 Renewable Energy | Carbon Storage | Energy Efficiency | New Technologies | England | Scotland | Wales | Northern Ireland | United Kingdom

Early humans 'followed coast'
BBC World Service | 16 May 2005
The first humans who left Africa to populate the world headed south along the coast of the Indian Ocean, Science magazine reports.
 Agriculture and Fisheries