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Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta by the photojournalist Ed Kashi documents the consequences of 50 years of oil extraction in the Niger delta

Evidence from Institute of Physics drawn from energy industry consultant who argues global warming is a religionEvidence from a respected scientific body to a parliamentary inquiry examining the behaviour of climate-change...

The coal 'gasification' stakes are high – not least because the company behind the plan is called Clean Coal LtdKing coal is ready for a British comeback in a form that sounds more like medieval hellfire than an energy...

Peak oil should be good news for the environment, but not if it stimulates investment in even dirtier sources of energyWhen forecasts of fossil fuel reserves improve, how should we respond? A new report (pdf) by the trade...

Amendment to energy bill which would set new emissions standard could fail if Tory backbenchers abstain as expectedA significant number of Tory MPs are expected to abstain today on a vote to cut emissions from coal-fired...

• North Sea could power third of UK in 2020, says industry• Reserves nearly 25bn barrels, but more investment neededBritain's offshore oil and gas fields could still be delivering 1.5m barrels a day by 2020, enough to...

Canada courts Chinese investment in Alberta oil projects as US firms boycott tar sands fuelCanada, faced with growing political pressure over the extraction of oil from its highly polluting tar sands, has begun courting China...

• Californian legislation branded 'unconstitutional'• Lobby group includes UK energy companiesA lobby group that includes BP and Shell in its membership has launched a legal challenge against low-carbon legislation in...

The UK's largest private landowner says the move will cut emissions from energy use for heat and electricity by 45%The National Trust has unveiled plans to reduce its use of fossil fuels by 50% over the next 10 years, to...

Vladmir Putin attends summit to discuss 'environmental aspects' of controversial Nord Stream pipeline between Russia and GermanyVladimir Putin today threw Russia's weight behind an ambitious international plan to clean up...

Warnings of a crash in oil production are no longer limited to a prescient few individuals - major British companies and oil CEOs are now sounding the alertIn the years approaching the credit crunch, whistleblowers were limited...

• Virgin chief and fellow business leaders call for action• Energy crisis threatens to be more serious than credit crunchSir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world...

President Obama pledges to help pass 'comprehensive' climate change law, but also backed nuclear power and drillingBarack Obama put himself firmly behind the effort to get a climate change bill through Congress last night...

In his state of the union address, Obama seemed willing to trade nuclear power and offshore drilling for climate bill votesA guest blog by Suzanne Goldenberg, the Guardian's US environment correspondentGreens probably didn't...

In an attempt to step up pressure on the developing countries to take up ambitious emissions reductions and forcing them to move to renewable energy sources for power generation, a high ranking US official has written to...