Oil: A global crisis
The invasion of Iraq by Britain and the US has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 trillion in higher energy prices alone.
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Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis
Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry.
Sian Berry: Will the woman described as ‘environmental Viagra’ turn us on to the Green Party?
Where are the Greens when you need them? The climate-change clock is ticking, and globally, we’re told, it’s 10 to midnight. Locally, outside London’s grand Methodist Central Hall, it’s definitely 7.12pm, but there’s still no sign of Sian Berry. The London Citizens’ mayoral hustings is starting in three minutes and the audience has piled through the doors, bombarded on their way by political flyers of every colour… except Green. Where has she got to? Is she riding here by milk float?
Exposed: the great GM crops myth
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
The rise of British sea power
Britain is set this week to enter a new age, generating energy directly from the seas that surge around its shores. On Saturday a strange, 122ft- long contraption – looking like an upside-down windmill – will set off from the Belfast dock that built the Titanic to produce the first electricity ever brought ashore from British tides.