Cindy Baxter writes:

As BP´s oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, I´m sitting here in Bonn at the first full round of climate talks since the fiasco in Copenhagen.   

We are doing our best to get this lot to make some progress. To get an a... Read more >

Mike Townsley writes:

In the span of a decade global military spending has jumped by over 50 percent to 1,531 billion US dollars (1,255 billion Euros), according to the Stockholm International Peace Institute's latest year book. 

So now we know why ... Read more >

As the next round of climate talks kicks off in Bonn, there's big news from several of our partners in the Global Coalition for Climate Action, the alliance of non-governmental organisations working to create the race to a green future, also known as ... Read more >

Indonesian forests got some love and some money this week.

The money came in the form of a 4 billion USD fund contributed to by seven wealthy countries - US, UK, Norway, Germany, Australia, Japan and France - to be used for forest protection global... Read more >

I guess my pessimism yesterday was not justified. We haven't won the war, but we won the battle for this year on offshore drilling in the United States. All plans for exploratory drilling in the Arctic Ocean have been suspended, there will be no deep ... Read more >

Originally posted by Greenpeace US.

The news today out of Washington has been somewhat promising, but these are small steps in a very long march towards a clean energy economy — an economy with none of the potential for massive ecological destruct... Read more >

Like most people following closely news of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, it didn’t escape us this morning that the Obama administration had leaked news that Arctic drilling plans will be suspended for this summer. Like less people, it also di... Read more >

On the wake of the Deepwater Horizon, there are calls left, right and centre to increase the security of oil rigs, improve oil spill response and whatnot. This is good, but far from sufficient. What we need to address is the world's dependence on oil,... Read more >

Amsterdam: Orang-utan finally gets a well-deserved rest in a popular park (above), KitKat campaign 'Killer' logo moves from Facebook profile pics to grocery store shelves (below)

The end of April passed without any concrete commitment from Nestlé tha... Read more >

This is an update on the coal-fired power plant in the Czech Republic, which Juliette wrote about a couple of weeks back.

This week - our activists in Prague displayed a banner, saying "Welcome to the CEZch Republic" on the roof of the Czech ... Read more >