Oliver Tickell

A campaign has been launched to force the UK's Co-operative Bank to retain its ethical and green principles - in the face of a hostile takeover by hedge funds and financial speculators.

Over one million whales, dolphins and porpoises killed by Japan's fishing industry in 70 years. And the persecution continues.

Japan's new State Secrets Act promises a fearful clampdown on journalist and whistle-blowers. Critics say its main purpose is to lock down information about Fukushima.

Big Six energy bosses join David Cameron's campaign against energy efficiency and green energy. Just the way for them to keep on ripping us all off.

The UK government's policy to pay for more for nuclear power than for power from solar PV is in direct contradiction of EU rules on state aid.

20,000 square kilometres of Ethiopia are suitable for grid-based wind power generation, with a total capacity of 100 GW.

India has blocked progress on an agreement to reduce emissions of the HFC super-powerful greenhouse gases.

"We all have yet to see what the surface environmental impact of fracking is and when we have seen it, then we would reach a view about it."

There are 14.6 million hectares of already deforested land in Indonesian Borneo alone that are suitable for palm cultivation.

"Most of the recently discovered plants and animals are thought to be endemic to small parts of the Amazon rainforest."

"Extraordinary pricing opportunities will lower utility costs by an estimated $53 million in the first year and even more thereafter."

The Hinkley deal is a disastrous one for the UK, its taxpayers and energy users, writes Oliver Tickell. We will be locked into a punitively high electricity price, index-linked, from 2025 until 2060, and the cumulative cost of this one nuclear power station will be well in excess of £100 billion, or around £1 billion per year in today's money.

If we are to move beyond the political impasse generated by the IPCC report and prevent catastrophic climate change we must look to market mechanisms, specifically price competitive renewables, writes Oliver Tickell......

Today the IPCC launches its latest review of world climate. But how to translate its grim findings into action when US is deploying its full armoury of intelligence and diplomatic dirty tricks to sink any prospect of an effective global climate agreement?

Owen Paterson answered MPs' questions today about bovine TB and the badger cull. Answers were few, but the emphasis has shifted ... could the revised BTB strategy contain a significant omission - the cull?

Japanese prosecutors have dropped all charges against Tepco, the operator of the stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima, along with senior Government officials.

After 40,000 Facebook posts on General Mills Facebook page demanding GM-free Cheerios, the company announces - 'original' Cheerios contain no GM ingredients.

The rapid spread of solar power across China, India, Africa and Latin America is being driven not by subsidy but by the market

German energy giant RWE will transform into a decentralized energy provider and enabler of renewable technologies.

What can we expect of December’s meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan, Poland? The main question will be how to follow the Kyoto Protocol’s first ‘commitment period’, which ends in 2012.

Research from China suggests that even low levels of nitrites in drinking water can cause cancer. Why is the West ignoring the evidence? asks Oliver Tickell

Are we losing our minds? And could something as simple and inexpensive as diet and lifestyle prevent it from happening? Yes, says Oliver Tickell

The market can solve climate change and tackle world debt if we start to sell emissions right