How much renewable energy could you buy for the 700 billion US dollars about to be spent bailing out failed banks? Here's a quick calculation.

I've just been reading an interesting article in Tuesday's English-language Japan Times. Journalist Bharti Legros eats some whale meat at a restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo, but then explores the different aspects of the whaling issue...

Here in the UK, bluefin tuna has suddenly become the posterboy for overfishing, largely thanks to the new film The End of the Line. I was at the premiere screening of the film (a documentary based on the book by journalist Charles Clover) here in...

It’s a while since we’ve hear from our old friend Tricastin but she’s never really very far from our thoughts or the headlines. France’s nuclear power facility had a very busy time last year. There was a leak of 30,000 litres of a uranium...

Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Seven of Britain's new nuclear plants will be on Irish Sea coast ‘Fears have been raised about the health and environmental risks to Ireland after the British Government gave the green light for the...

On the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, in the heart of the Pacific ocean, we have witnessed one of the titanic struggles of our age, an issue that can divide communities and and often times dare not be spoken. I am of course talking vegemite or...

This is a follow up to Brian's post, "They said we were crazy", The New York Times has an editorial today calling on the Senate to pass a strong chemical security bill: The requirements are reasonable, vital and long overdue. If terrorists were to...

Work for the nuclear industry? It seems your private life is no longer private… Thousands of staff at UK nuclear power stations have been told to spy on the private lives of workmates and inform on colleagues who might be “vulnerable” to...