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Shipping has made slow progress on climate change – can methanol help?

31 August 2021

Maersk, the world’s biggest shipping company, has ordered eight ships capable of running on methanol, which could prove a crucial route to helping the shipping industry decarbonise


Oil pump

Fracking wells in the US are leaking loads of planet-warming methane

22 April 2020

Satellites have revealed the fracking heartland of the US is leaking methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, at a record-breaking rate.


Oil well

Peak oil demand could arrive much sooner than expected, says oil firm

4 January 2020

The world’s appetite for oil could peak within five years according to one of Europe’s biggest oil and gas firms, much earlier than most rival oil companies expect


oil wells

The compelling tale of how climate change denial came to grip the US

20 March 2019

The Drilled podcast reveals how money and politics in the US beat science to create climate change denial – and how the nation could rewrite its future


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Norway is starting the world's biggest divestment in oil and gas

8 March 2019

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund plans to sell its stocks in oil and gas exploration firms, which is the biggest divestment of its kind yet


This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

30 January 2019

The environmentally damaging melting of polar ice is also exposing minerals, archaeological wonders and even ice volcanoes and there's a race to get to them


A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 15, 2014 in New York City. As fears from Ebola and a global slowdown spread, stocks plunged on Wednesday with the Dow falling over 400 points during the afternoon before recovering slightly

Fighting climate change could trigger a massive financial crash

30 June 2017

The risks of global warming go far beyond the physical. If we don’t start preparing for the transition to a low-carbon economy we’re in for an incredibly bumpy ride


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