Government ‘lacks ambition’ on transport pollution

NEWS: An important report by MPs says the government’s attempts to reduce pollution from transport do not go far enough.

£200m a year to avert global-warming starvation

NEWS: Scientists will receive millions of pounds a year to develop food crops which will survive climate change.

Energy firm pays for children to see Gore film

NEWS: An energy company is offering to pay for thousands of schoolchildren to see Al Gore’s film about global warming.

US politicians put climate change back on agenda

NEWS: George Bush’s rivals are forcing him to take environmental issues seriously.

Hydroelectric plants ‘harm environment’

NEWS: Scientists have cast damaging doubts over the green credentials of hydroelectric power.

Bush faces lawsuit over climate change report

NEWS: Environmentalists are suing George Bush for refusing to produce a climate-change report they say is required by law.