Full Coverage: Northern Europe

29.05.2008 Sellafield has the world's biggest stockpile of plutonium and uranium and storage tanks contain highly volatile radioactive waste "more dangerous" than the Chernobyl reactor, according to a study published today.
+ Shutdowns and plunging profits cast doubt on nuclear future

27.05.2008 The energy funding agreement between London and Venezuela's state-owned oil company, instituted by former mayor Ken Livingstone, will not be renewed when it concludes in August.

22.05.2008 Put your questions to a panel of experts, who discuss how current defence systems will cope with enhanced flood risk to the capital over the next 30 years.

21.05.2008 Iceland, Denmark and Norway take the top three spots in the Global Peace Index, and Iraq, Somalia and Sudan come bottom of the list.

20.05.2008 British MPs and peers will attend a House of Commons reception on Tuesday that has the aim of pressing the government to sign up to the international law for tribal peoples. They will also be briefed about British company Vedanta’s plans to mine a sacred mountain in India.

19.05.2008 Controversial author and journalist Naomi Klein is poised to accuse UK companies over plans to plunder Iraqi oil, on the eve of Shell’s annual meeting.
* Klein's speech will be made at the launch of the paperback edition of her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Meeting details

19.05.2008 A new approach is needed for managing England's natural environment if it is to stand any chance of adapting to the next 50 years of climate change and the pressures of development, says a government advisory body.
+ Curbing UK impacts on global biodiversity: an agenda for action

17.05.2008 The natural disaster in Burma has now become a "man-made catastrophe", British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.
+ Children may starve to death in Myanmar, aid agency warns
+ Thousands of children lost and in danger

16.05.2008 How do we deliver equality in the 21st Century? That's the topic billed as "the first major gathering of progressives post the 2008 elections."

16.05.2008 Britain and the European Union have been criticised for not doing enough to prevent the commercialisation of 'Terminator' seeds in the developing world that would threaten the livelihoods of 1.4 billion people and wreak havoc on agricultural biodiversity.

15.05.2008 As mining company Vedanta announces record profits today, India's remote Dongria Kondh people are claiming the company will destroy them forever if it goes ahead with plans to mine their sacred mountain.

14.05.2008 Peter Armstrong listens to Dr. Ian Goldin on Africa's response to globalisation.

14.05.2008 One week after appeal lines opened, £6 million has been raised for the Myanmar Cyclone Appeal.

05.05.2008 Today's Millennium Development Goals summit in London is in danger of becoming an empty gesture for the world’s poor and a public relations stunt for big companies, campaigners warned today as they launched an alternative action plan and challenged UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to support it.
+ Brown slated on ‘cynical’ poverty event

03.05.2008 Queen and Country by Steve McQueen - a cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each one dedicated to a British soldier killed in Iraq - is on tour, starting at the Royal Festival Hall.

02.05.2008 The hit of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Black Watch, comes to London for the first time, following a sell-out tour of Scotland, the US and Australasia.

02.05.2008 Future technology designed to cut the carbon cost of air travel will be displayed to the public for the first time in a new exhibition that opens at the Science Museum in London on 15 May.

02.05.2008 Many British food and drinks processing companies have much to do before they can claim to be operating sustainably in terms of water consumption, concludes a new report.
From Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility

01.05.2008 a British court has ordered the government to disclose previously secret records of lobbying by the Confederation of British Industry, following a court case won by an environmental campaign group.

01.05.2008 About half of the people who moved to Britain from the countries that joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 have already left the UK, according to a new report.
From Institute for Public Policy Research