Bill McKibbenWed 19 Jun 2019 03.00 BST Before 1988, climate change was a subject confined to the realm of academic journals. That all changed when the scientist James Hansen told Congress that global heating was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of the burning of fossil fuels. That […]

Dozens of people could be in line for payments after judge’s landmark ruling Severin CarrellLast modified on Fri 28 Jun 2019 21.15 BST Dozens of cyclists in Edinburgh could be in line for damages after a judge ruled the city’s tram tracks were to blame for two incidents. In a landmark legal ruling, the court

In 1986, millions of Filipinos took to the streets of Manila in peaceful protest and prayer in the People Power movement. The Marcos regime folded on the fourth day. In 2003, the people of Georgia ousted Eduard Shevardnadze through the bloodless Rose Revolution, in which protestors stormed the parliament building holding the flowers in their

Friday, 21 June 2019 A Cycling UK complaint about an inaccurate national news headline suggesting cyclists had killed more people than motorists in the Netherlands has been dismissed by the press watchdog because it says the article was not aimed at a UK audience. The charity made its complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation

Overview We want your views on our proposals to make the streets we manage in central London 20mph by 2020 and the associated measures. Last year, in partnership with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), we published the Vision Zero Action Plan. The Action Plan sets out our ambition to eliminate death and serious injury from

Lithium, sometimes referred to as ‘white petroleum,’ is a key component in energy storage and in recent years demand has skyrocketed ForbesJun 11 Almost three-quarters of the world’s lithium raw materials come from mines in Australia or briny lakes in Chile (one of which, in the Atacama Desert, is seen here) giving them leverage with

Heather Cairns says woman ‘masqueraded’ as her daughter Eilidh’s aunt at council meeting Helen PiddLast modified on Mon 24 Jun 2019 20.57 BST A woman posed as the aunt of a cyclist who was killed in London in order to oppose plans for a new segregated bike lane, according to the victim’s mother. Eilidh Cairns,

Megan DarbyPublished on 03/06/2019, 2:10pm Incoming prime minister Antti Rinne presented the climate goal as part of a package with increased welfare spending on Monday Finland will go carbon neutral by 2035, under a coalition deal published on Monday, setting one of the world’s earliest timelines for reaching that mark. After more than a month

What happened to Chris Boardman’s plans for the UK’s biggest cycle route network in Greater Manchester? Helen PiddLast modified on Mon 24 Jun 2019 16.08 BST Almost exactly a year ago, Chris Boardman – the Olympic champion turned walking and cycling czar – revealed a bold vision: Greater Manchester was to turn itself into a

By Karen Savage March 21, 2019 Exxon’s history of publicly sowing doubt about climate science despite internally acknowledging the impacts of its products on climate change was the subject of a public hearing on climate denial held Thursday in the European Parliament in Brussels. Thought to be the first-ever hearing by a major government body