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• Shortage threatens low-carbon targets, argues business group • Gap comes as demand for scientists and engineers increasing Britain lacks the skills or training facilities to make the successful transition to a low-carbon...
Of all the companies whose shares have fared badly in the past couple of years, National Grid is among the most perplexing. It has many of the qualities investors would be expected to cherish in times of trouble. Yet the Grid’s...
MOSCOW, November 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russian and Iranian officials confirmed on Friday that work to launch Iran's first nuclear power plant is going as scheduled, Russia's state nuclear power equipment and service export...
By Tim Johnston in Vientiane, Laos From the window of his office in the Laotian capital Vientiane, Jeremy Bird looks down on a lazy arc of the Mekong river about half way along its 4,400km journey from its turbulent headwaters...
The world’s major challenge in combating climate change is to devise a strategy that encourages growth in the developing world, but on a path that approaches safe global carbon-emission levels by mid-century. The way to achieve...
Guernsey-based Renewable Energy Generation (REG) said it plans to significantly increase its wind-power assets next year. The firm currently has wind projects in Cornwall, County Durham, Cumbria and Gwynedd with a total...
Q. I have been in contact with Carphone Warehouse (CW) since July regarding problems with my new mobile phone. I raised this as an official complain on 9 September, but I have hit a brick wall. CW says it can't resolve my...
My critique of a proposal for expanded tax credits to promote the electrification of transportation prompted some interesting comments. It also got me thinking again about an underlying problem that leads to the kind of...
Why the tar sands are important for anti-military campaigning The extraction of dirty oil from the Canadian tar sands is having an immense regional and global environmental impact and driving the planet towards catastrophic...
The state visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is seen by the Obama administration as a new beginning for U.S.-India relations and a window to work on pressing issues, a senior U.S. diplomat says.
