Any additional emissions from a UK gasfield are incompatible with climate targets.
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Industrial renewal coupled with social reforms could support a green transition away from carbon-intensive industries while narrowing social inequalities.
Green hydrogen production is, in effect, a way of bottling renewable energy.
Researchers have used lab models to study how rogue waves form, but these don’t always transfer over to the natural world.
It’s a myth that producing oil with lower upstream emissions benefits the climate.
A large tanker has released jet fuel into the sea near crucial seal and seabird breeding spots, say local marine ecologists.
Oil and gas companies operating in the North Sea are regularly breaching legal limits and releasing too much polluted wastewater, a new report claims.
Norway has become the first nation on earth to allow deep-sea mineral exploration. But opening this industry could put Norway in murky legal waters.
Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea have disrupted trade between Asia and Europe – could ships cross the Arctic instead?
New UK legislation gives the wrong answer to the question of energy security.
More than a century of research shows that burning fossil fuels warms the climate – that’s exactly why granting new North Sea oil and gas licenses is a bad idea.
A thin layer of surface water has been baked by the sun.
Labour would still honour existing licenses to drill for fossil fuels.
A new documentary has tracked a Russian vessel apparently collecting data on energy and communications infrastructure in the North Sea and Baltic.
Despite once holding promise, the UK’s climate compatibility checkpoint has become a formality.
Moving entire communities threatened by rising seas isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds.
When entire sectors shut down, the demand for energy plummets.
Millions of years of on-off ice ages have left behind a mix of different sediments.
Shell’s withdrawal highlights unresolved tensions on the road to net zero.
From its inadequate safety provisions to vague wording around Native Title rights and interests, the bill leaves us wanting.
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