As we’ve already seen, April can be a tricky month. On warm, bright days it’s tempting to be out in the garden planting and sowing, with a feeling that summer is only just around the corner. But then we get a few cold days and nights, with frost and...
Campaigners against a new oil well near Puddletown in Dorset are celebrating after the applicant withdrew their application.
The site just north of Athelhampton had been proposed by South Western Energy Ltd for 20 years of oil production, which would have released millions of tonnes of carbon emissions. Objectors raised various issues...
XR UK has announced that there will soon be actions at oil refineries in the run up to the April Rebellion. We wrote this statement for use during these actions. XRTU are rank and file trade unionists who are also active in Extinction Rebellion (XR).
This is our message...
Bombs are raining down on Ukraine, and our government is using it as an an opportunity to take us back to the dark ages.The pressure to wean ourselves off Russian oil and gas could supercharge the transition to renewables. Instead, Boris Johnson is pushing for more UK oil production...
WiFi operates in the 2 to 5 GHz range - part of the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is in the same part of the spectrum where cell phones operate so I may refer to WiFi or cellphone electromagnetic radiation interchangeably. These are radio waves - no...
Has humanity just became even more meaningless?
The laws of physics demand that we cannot see through a black hole's event horizon; it is fundamentally impenetrable. Even light cannot escape it.
But in a new study, a physicist from the University of Michigan has proposed a technique to do just that,...
A coalition of investors, who own the Camborne constituency office of Environment Minister George Eustice, announced today that they have donated all of his rent so far to the Insulate Britain campaign.
In the run up to the Extinction Rebellion protests at G7 in Cornwall in June 2021, the group...
Cuadrilla is to plug and abandon two shale gas wells in Lancashire following orders from the government's industry regulator, it confirmed in a statement.
Cuadrilla's parent company AJ Lucas said the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) had ordered it to permanently seal the two shale gas wells drilled at the...
Campaigners are urging members of the public to object to a planning application to drill for oil in the Dorset countryside, which they say is incompatible with Dorset Council policies and the need to address the climate emergency.
If approved, the proposal will see an oil well being drilled...
Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public.
There is nothing that cannot be corrupted, nothing good that cannot be transformed into something bad. And there is no clearer example than the great climate land grab.
We now know that it’s...
