Sophie Yeo

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onFeb 5, 2019 @ 07:21 PST

The UKโ€™s use of export finance to fund overseas fossil fuel projects is โ€œflatly inconsistentโ€ with both domestic climate policy and efforts to meet the 1.5C warming limit, according to academics at...
onJan 31, 2019 @ 07:17 PST

Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a โ€œclimate emergencyโ€, and will work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030, bringing forward its current 2050 goal by 20ย years. The ...
onDec 13, 2018 @ 06:08 PST

JSW, the coal company sponsoring the UN climate negotiations in Poland, has a plan to revive the coal industry: renameย coal. Daniel Ozon, CEO of JSW, believes that coking coal has been tainted by ...
onDec 6, 2018 @ 01:56 PST

We were told to meet by the glowing jellyfish. Pascoe Sabido was holding it aloft, its plastic tentacles tangling, as journalists and campaigners closed in around him. A campaigner for Corporate Eu...
onOct 12, 2018 @ 09:36 PDT

The rig standing in a field in Little Plumpton, Lancashire, is about to start drilling. Today, Cuadrilla finally got the all-clear to start fracking, after the High Court rejected a request for a l...
onOct 11, 2018 @ 14:11 PDT

โ€œItโ€™s 4.21pm. Iโ€™m just saying. Iโ€™d like to say itโ€™s all okay, but itโ€™s really not. Itย sucks.โ€ Itโ€™s difficult to hear Tina Rotheryโ€™s gloomy pronouncement, as heavy rain has just started to hammer t...
onFeb 23, 2017 @ 02:30 PST

The famous Brent oil field is dead, but is it buried? After ten years of study, Shell has found that the once-productive field, sucked dry of its resources, is not all that useful after the oil has...