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Euratom: nuking Europe's future

Greenpeace activists delivered 15 barrels of fake radioactive waste to the doors of the European Parliament. Nuclear power is being promoted at the heart of Europe's new Constitution. Rolling an outdated and undemocratic treaty into future EU law is not just inappropriate - it's dangerous.

The UK's first wind farm in the Irish Sea which will supply 50,000 homes with power. Enlarge Image

UK launches first offshore windfarm

The UK's first major offshore wind farm has now been launched. It's situated off the coast of North Wales in the Irish Sea, and is now harnessing some of the UK's massive sea wind resource. It is a big step toward the only energy of the future - clean, green, renewable energy.

The original viewpoint taken at the HPS31 glacier fifty years ago. Enlarge Image

World Bank, Pentagon warn: climate changing

A world thrown into turmoil by drought, floods, typhoons. Whole countries rendered uninhabitable. The political capital of the Netherlands submerged. The borders of the US and Australia patrolled by armies firing into waves of starving boat people desperate to find a new home. Fishing boats armed with cannon to drive off competitors. Demands for access to water and farmland backed up with nuclear weapons. Sound like the ravings of doom-saying environmental extremists? It's actually from a report commissioned by the Pentagon on how to ready America for the coming climate Armageddon.

Greenpeace activists climb a 700-ft coal plant smokestack to denounce Bush's dirty power plan. The Hatfield's Ferry Power Station is a symbol and an example of the Bush administration's dirty energy policy that favors polluting fossil fuels over clean energy sources. Enlarge Image

Why climb a 700 foot smokestack?

The Bush administration has trashed US clean air laws by allowing power stations to install new equipment without adding pollution controls, and permitting coal-fired power plants to continue to release tons of mercury. This dirty energy also wreaks havoc on the environment, causing global warming, acid rain, and smog. That's why our activists are 700ft up a chimney in Pennsylvania to call for clean energy now!

Fishermen in front of the Mihama nuclear plant after the 1991 accident at the plant. Now a second accident has claimed the lives of at least four workers. Alternative energy sources like wind and solar would have avoided this pollution and death. Enlarge Image

Accident at Japan nuclear plant

A fatal accident has killed at least four people at the Mihama nuclear power plant in Japan. There was no leak of radioactivity but it is the deadliest accident in a catalogue of nuclear scandals in Japan.

Wind farm near Nan'ao. The current installed capacity is 60MW but will be increased to 200MW. Enlarge Image

China's push for a renewable energy future

Take a minute to consider the following. What if the world's most populous nation had the necessity-driven willpower to develop the massive uptake of renewable energy like wind and solar power to offset the catastrophic effects of climate change and to secure clean, safe, abundant energy for 1.3 billion people?

15,000 postcards from the public calling for renewable energy are delivered in a ball of ice to the Bonn Renewables conference. While there was some progress at the conference it still left much to do to tackle global warming. Enlarge Image

The Solar Generation

Who are we? Young people who want to change the world! What do we want? Renewable Energy! Make no mistake - the world is heading for climate disaster if we don't change our dirty energy ways soon. The young people of the Solar Generation project don't want to be living in a disaster of our making. They are campaigning now for the switch to clean renewable energy across the globe.

Local resident contemplates the roof of his home perched on a nearby tree after Hurricane Charley. Enlarge Image

Extreme weather warnings

Hurricane devastation in the US, flash floods in Japan and a UK village washed into the sea. As climate change gathers pace, devastation caused by extreme weather is becoming more common. Take a visual tour of storm and flood destruction.

Polar bears in Churchill in Manitoba, Canada have to be tranquillised then airlifted north in order to access their natural habitat as the sea ice is returning later and later after the summer months. Enlarge Image

Polar bears dream of a white Christmas

An Arctic without ice. Polar bears extinct in the wild. Mass starvation of reindeer. And as a result of their snowy world melting, the possibility of a global sea-level rise of devastating proportions. It's the worst disaster film you've ever seen. Made real.

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Floods in France Floods in southern France this week illustrate once again the unacceptable risk of nuclear power. Two nuclear power plants have been shut down, and a major waste storage facility is in the impacted region. In a world threatened by terrorism and extreme weather events like the storms in France (which will only increase as global warming worsens) nuclear power is too dangerous. No terrorist has every threatened to blow up a wind turbine, and a flood doesn't stop a wind farm. No nukes. Go wind.