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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

Monbiot has got it wrong: feed-in tariffs are not a waste of money. They work – just look at the German renewables industryThank goodness Jeremy Leggett stepped in to correct some of the inaccuracies in George Monbiot's...

What brings Arnold Schwarzenegger to eBay HQ? An ex-Nasa scientist's cheap energy invention made from sand inscribed with special inksNot every company can boast Arnold Schwarzenegger, Colin Powell and the heads of Google...

Vermont would be the first state to close a nuclear reactor after 38-year-old Yankee's history of leaking cancer-causing tritiumBarack Obama's new dream of a nuclear renaissance faces a major reality check tomorrow when the...

Anticipation and suspicion run high before launch of Bloom Box, claimed to be a cheap source of clean energy from a device the size of a loaf of breadA new but still unseen technology that its creator claims can be an off-grid...

Only 9,100 homes last year given green energy makeover out of 500,000 target, but government says pace of retrofits has risenBarack Obama's $5bn programme to help fuel America's economic recovery by making more than half...

Political pressure is growing to make big businesses pay for the damage they cause to the environmentPolitical pressure is mounting to make businesses pay for the damage they cause to the environment, and the latest UN study...

Report for the UN into the activities of the world's 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment• Andrew Simms: Putting a price...

All new buildings to be wired with chargers ahead of release of new vehicle models marketed to middle-class familiesSan Francisco has adopted building codes requiring all new homes and offices to be wired for electric car...

US president announces $8.3bn in loan guarantees for construction of first nuclear reactors in almost 30 years

Barack Obama's promise to fund new nuclear power plants is a major financial gamble – and US taxpayers will foot the billIn his first state of the union address last month, Barack Obama declared that creating new clean...

US president announces $8.3bn in loan guarantees for construction of first nuclear reactors in almost 30 yearsBarack Obama pressed the start button on the first new construction of nuclear reactors in a generation today,...

An Australian government scheme to promote loft insulation is backfiring on the country's environment minister, former Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett'How can we sleep when our beds are burning?" sang Peter Garrett in 1987,...

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...