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Reducing funding for household generation of renewable energy will jeopardise job creation and energy security, Huhne is toldA coalition of green, countryside and housing groups has warned energy secretary Chris Huhne not...

Severe weather forces campaigners to give up their perilous position on British-owned rig off the coast of Greenland• Greenpeace 'shuts down' Arctic oil rigFour Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned...

Social networking site under fire over intention to run giant new data centre mainly on coal-powered electricitySocial networking website Facebook is coming under unprecedented pressure from its users to switch to renewable...

Kuupik Kleist claims environmental campaigners are damaging country's economy by occupy drilling platformThe premier of Greenland has accused Greenpeace of threatening the safety of oil workers and the environment after four...

Environmental campaigners slip through security boats to scale Cairn Energy oil rig in dawn raidGreenpeace claims to have shut down offshore drilling by a British oil company at a controversial site in the Arctic after four...

German chancellor adds 15 years to scheduled phase-out of country's nuclear power plantsGerman chancellor Angela Merkel has announced an extension to the nation's nuclear power plant operations for up to 15 years beyond a...

Charity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020European Union countries must drop their biofuels targets or else risk plunging more Africans...

Regulator and builders blame each other for construction hold-up as designs await approvalThe schedule for the UK's nuclear reactor building programme has slipped behind already, the safety regulator has admitted, reinforcing...

Energy company says 12 million homeowners could save £1,000 a year, as it looks to take advantage of government schemeMore than 12 million homeowners would be in line to save up to £1,000 a year, should they install solar...

Energy efficiency scheme funded by energy company Calor identifies Berwick-upon-Tweed among most fuel-poor rural areasSuffolk, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire contain the most areas of fuel poverty in rural England, according...

The Danish navy has warned that the Esperanza will be boarded by armed personnel if it breaches the exclusion zone • Climate Camp day of action – as it happenedA Greenpeace ship protesting against deep sea drilling by...

Find by Cairn Energy off Greenland could open door to huge reserves of oil – and potential for more environmental disastersA British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could...

• Cairn says well has found gas and oil-bearing sands in Arctic• Greenpeace ship already in area protesting against drillingCairn Energy has confirmed that it has discovered gas and oil-bearing sands off the coast of...

Britain's finest export could soon be powering our cars• Scottish scientists develop whisky biofuelIs there no bad news about whisky? Yes, admitted, it can lead you to odd places – specifically to a culvert off the M62...

Behind government dismissals of 'alarmist' fears there is growing concern over critical future energy suppliesSpeculation that government ministers are far more concerned about a future supply crunch than they have admitted...