Australia's efforts to prevent renewable energy have been quite effective: investment has dropped over 70% since a year ago.

The world's largest coal mine is an impressive feat of technology. Peabody wants to make it even bigger. Too bad it is going to destroy civilization.

Peabody has done other nasty things before.

The UK government, ever eager to boost fossil fuels, proposed to distribute more of the income from fracking to everyone in the north of England.

It would be an appropriate thing to do, if we consider only the short term.

Argentina is trying to prosecute crimes committed by Franco's dictatorship in Spain.

Bravo, Argentina, but please don't stop there — go after Dubya and his henchmen too.

Due to global heating, covering the alps with snow requires artificial help.

90% of Switzerland's glaciers will disappear by the end of this century, and it won't stop there. This does much bigger harm than merely interfering with winter sports.

Morocco is preventing the Moroccan Human Rights Association from holding meetings.