Environment
‘Human safari’ row goes to India’s Supreme Court
09 Jan 2013
Transocean to pay $1.4 bn for 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill
05 Jan 2013
British oil giant BP, which had leased the rig at the time of the blowout, had already agreed to pay a penalty of $4.5 billion
Himalayas could see massive earthquakes: Experts
01 Jan 2013
UK government greenlights shale fracking
14 Dec 2012
Clean-up makes Gulf of Mexico spill 52 times more toxic
12 Dec 2012
If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was an ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up apparently made it even worse
Powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake shakes northeast Japan
07 Dec 2012
There were no reports of any major damage or injuries from the earthquake, which was centered off the Miyagi prefecture in northeast Japan at a depth of 10 km
Airborne particles smuggle pollutants to far reaches of globe
21 Nov 2012
Pollution from fossil fuel burning and forest fires reaches all the way to the Arctic, even though it should decay long before it travels that far
Argentine court orders seizure of Chevron’s assets to enforce $19-bn Ecuadoran ruling
08 Nov 2012
An Argentine court has ordered to seize US oil giant Chevron Corp's assets in the country in order to carry out an Ecuadorean court ruling that awarded $19 billion to plaintiffs in an environmental damage lawsuit in the Amazon