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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...

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...

• 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...

Project could power Rwanda for decades, while reducing risk of disaster for 2 million people living alongside 'exploding lake'It's dusk on Lake Kivu and the fishermen sing while paddling out in their catamarans, three canoes...

China's economy has been growing at almost 10% since it embraced economic reforms and free-market principlesChina's rise to be crowned as the world's second-largest economy today is the latest milestone in a boom that has...

Dams in Brazil, Ethiopia and Malaysia will force people off land and destroy hunting grounds, says Survival InternationalGiant hydroelectric dams being built or planned in remote areas of Brazil, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Peru...

Brazil would not be the first nation to become rich from its resources - but its challenge is to compete economically without destroying its environmentOutside Dr Gilberto Cãmara's office, there is a large and beautiful...

The pipe will deliver cheaper, cleaner energy to Manaus but environmentalists fear it will lead to rainforest exploitationA gas pipeline cutting through 660km of Amazon rainforest will deliver cheaper, cleaner energy to a...

Pioneering deal signed with UN sets up trust fund by wealthy countries worth half expected earnings from potential sale of oilHow much would you pay for the most biologically rich patch of land on Earth – some 675 sq miles...

China has overtaken the US as the world's biggest consumer of energy, according to preliminary data from the IEA• Get the dataChina's energy use has more than doubled over the last decade to overtake the United States as...

Increasingly affluent and energy-hungry nation reflects the dramatic increase in the wattage of China's economyDeclarations of love do not get much more highly charged than the one Zhao Xiuxia received from her husband recently...

British firm to design mammoth offshore wind turbines with 275m wingspan that produce three times power of standard modelsBritish, American and Norwegian engineers are in a race to design and build the holy grail of wind...