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Britain has a duty to exploit its shale gas reserves, says David Cameron. But is fracking the answer to Europe's reliance on cheap Russian gas? With your help, Karl Mathiesen investigates

Journalistic standards won't be upheld by attempting to discredit science we don't likeEnvironmental journalism's watchdog strikesBlogger Keith Kloor, who writes for Discover magazine, claims that my article on a Nasa-funded...

Brazilian electricity company developed a new business model to rebuild trust with and provide services to favelasThe city of Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by the Atlantic ocean on one side and forested hills on the other, is...

A new post-carbon era dawns as the old fossil fuel system dies. It's time to step up.Last Friday, I posted an exclusive report about a new NASA-backed scientific research project at the US National Socio-Environmental Synthesis...

Natural and social scientists develop new model of how 'perfect storm' of crises could unravel global systemA new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation...

In growing maize for biogas, the crop that does most damage to the soil is being specifically exempted from the rulesIn principle it's a brilliant solution...

It will take months of legal wrangling and opposition before the creation of a new energy supplyFracking might be a controversial proposition, but there is no need to panic just yet...

With predictions of up to 50% efficiency and named one of the breakthroughs of 2013, perovskites are the clean tech material development to watch right now • This is the first in a new monthly series on early stage technologies...

What does the carbon bubble mean for the global economy and action on climate change? With your help, Karl Mathiesen investigates

Join us on Thursday 13 March 12-1:30pm to discuss whether CSR is better than social enterprise in terms of social impactCorporate social responsibility schemes have now become mainstream – with large corporations such as...

The move looks like an act of party political positioning or, at worst, an attempt to influence an independent inquiryMinisters are free to pick fights whenever they wish, but this is a strange moment for Liberal Democrat...

Islands follow Aruba's lead in switching to renewable energy sources and reaping health and economic benefitsAruba in the southern Caribbean has 107,000 people, a lot of wind and sun and, until very recently, one very big...

Arwen Colell and Luise Neumann-Cosel have set up a co-operative to buy the grid and move Berlin towards a sustainable energy strategy"If we're going to make a difference, then our only option is to buy the whole of the Berlin...

Large-scale clean energy projects shouldn't eclipse the urgent need to provide electricity to low-income and rural communitiesThe 84 wind turbines erected just south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, tower above an arid...

As the government finally publishes its community energy strategy, Alison Cahn reflects on how much easier her hydro scheme near Lancaster would have been with a bit of guidanceIt's nearly a year since I wrote about my community's...