Green Times

Britain and Europe will be forced to fundamentally rethink a central part of their environment strategy after a government report found that the rush to develop biofuels has played a “significant” role in the dramatic rise in global food prices, which has left 100 million more people without enough to eat.The Gallagher report, due to […]

Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are walking a delicate line as they promise to aggressively tackle global warming while trying to assure voters that they continue to believe in the future of coal.In states like Pennsylvania, where voters will cast ballots this Tuesday, and in West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Montana - upcoming primary […]

Investment in renewable energy skyrocketed in 2007, but such sources still provided just a tiny fraction of the world’s power, researchers said Tuesday on the sidelines of an international renewable energy conference in Washington. Investment in renewable energy technologies amounted to 71 billion dollars last year, up from 55 billion dollars in 2006 and 40 […]