Suzanne Goldenberg
BARACK Obama is being pressed for proof of his intent to act on climate change before next week’s United Nations global warming summit in Doha. The proof might boil down to an early statement that America
Published 24 Nov, 2012 10:00pm
WASHINGTON: Beyonce was right: it was all the single ladies who put their hands up. New research reveals Barack Obama owes his re-election victory to the unmarried women who turned out in their millions to vote
Published 11 Nov, 2012 03:41am
THE Persian Gulf, Libya, and Pakistan are at high risk of food insecurity in coming decades because climate change and ocean acidification are destroying fisheries, according to a report released on Monday.
Published 26 Sep, 2012 12:00am
THE global sustainable development summit that begins this week in Rio is “too important to fail”, the UN secretary general, Ban ki-Moon has said.
Published 17 Jun, 2012 11:01pm
IT likes to present itself as a grassroots insurgency made up of hundreds of local groups intent on toppling the...
Published 15 Oct, 2010 12:00am
THE White House was accused on Thursday of spinning a government scientific report into the amount of oil left in ...
Published 07 Aug, 2010 12:00am
AFTER 76 days, 190 million gallons of oil, and a $22.5bn clean-up and compensation bill so far, BP is poised to plug...
Published 06 Jul, 2010 12:00am
AN explorer`s life is all about firsts. In a career with records and accolades following one another like pearls on ...
Published 04 Jul, 2010 12:00am
THERE was mounting evidence on Tuesday night that the scale of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has ...
Published 20 May, 2010 12:00am
WASHINGTON BP was aware of equipment problems aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig hours before the explosion pumped...
Published 15 May, 2010 12:00am
THE three oil industry titans behind the Gulf of Mexico spill all sought to blame one another under questioning from...
Published 13 May, 2010 12:00am
A SECRETIVE group linked to a leading European chemical company has joined the campaign to defeat Barack Obama`s...
Published 23 Apr, 2010 12:00am
THE World Bank approved a controversial $3.75bn loan to build one of the world`s largest coal plants in South Africa...
Published 12 Apr, 2010 12:00am
BARACK Obama suffered a setback to his green energy agenda on Tuesday when three major corporations — including BP...
Published 18 Feb, 2010 12:00am
THE average American consumes more than his or her weight in products each day, fuelling a global culture of excess...
Published 15 Jan, 2010 12:00am
TALKS to save the planet from catastrophic climate change were on the brink of collapse on Thursday as officials ...
Published 19 Dec, 2009 12:00am
A LOOMING showdown between the US and China dominated the Copenhagen climate change negotiations even as John Kerry...
Published 18 Dec, 2009 12:00am
INTERNATIONAL negotiators lost one of the key elements to a successful deal on global warming on Tuesday after...
Published 05 Nov, 2009 12:00am
TWENTY-FIVE million more children will go hungry by the middle of this century as climate change leads to food...
Published 02 Oct, 2009 12:00am
THE UN chief, Ban Ki-moon, frustrated at the glacial pace of crucial climate change negotiations, is looking to the...
Published 17 Sep, 2009 12:00am
