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Canadian province cancels tar sands pipeline due to environmental impact

Suzanne Goldenberg 4 Jun 2013

Is it possible to reduce the impact of oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 May 2013

Citizen group finds 30 toxic chemicals in air following tar sands oil spill in Arkansas

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2013

Tar sands oil spill: ruptured pipe pours 200,000 gallons of oil into suburban neighborhood (photos)

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2013

After decades of turning a blind eye, Peru declares state of emergency due to oil contamination in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

NGOs call on Obama Administration to suspend Arctic oil drilling after series of blunders

Jeremy Hance 10 Jan 2013

Oil drilling approved for national park in Belize

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 20 Nov 2012

BP fined $4.5 billion for Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but company may spend more buying its own stocks

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2012

Above the ocean: saving the world’s most threatened birds

Jeremy Hance 1 Nov 2012

Penguins face a slippery future

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2012

Another mishap kills Shell’s Arctic oil drilling for the year

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2012

Shell begins offshore drilling in the Alaskan Arctic

Jeremy Hance 10 Sep 2012

Obama approves preparation for oil drilling in Arctic, Shell en route

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2012

Greenpeace abandons occupation of Arctic oil drilling rig after workers throw metal at them

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2012

Shell running out of time to drill in U.S. Arctic – this year

Jeremy Hance 20 Aug 2012

Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have played role in dolphin deaths

Jeremy Hance 22 Jul 2012

Greenpeace activists occupy icebreaker set for Arctic drilling

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2012

BP Deepwater Horizon deformities: eyeless shrimp, clawless crabs

Jeremy Hance 24 Apr 2012

Obama Administration, Shell moving ahead with Arctic oil exploitation

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2012

Indigenous groups fight for recognition and illumination in Peru

Patrick Le Flufy 26 Mar 2012

Featured Video: the true cost of the tar sands

Jeremy Hance 15 Mar 2012

Opposition rising against U.S. Arctic drilling

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2012

Black Swans and bottom-up environmental action

Ryan King 8 Feb 2012

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2011

Jeremy Hance 22 Dec 2011

12,000 surround White House to protest tar sands pipeline

Jeremy Hance 7 Nov 2011

Photos: pelicans covered in BP oil wins top wildlife photo prize

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2011

Photos: New Zealand oil disaster kills over 1200 birds to date

Jeremy Hance 16 Oct 2011

Bird-killing oil spill New Zealand’s ‘worst environmental disaster’

Jeremy Hance 12 Oct 2011

Deepwater spill ‘meets the Titanic’: groups sue to stop Arctic drilling

Jeremy Hance 29 Sep 2011

Deepwater oil spill likely to hurt fish populations over decades

Jeremy Hance 28 Sep 2011

Climate test for Obama: 1,252 people arrested over notorious oil pipeline

Jeremy Hance 6 Sep 2011

Mass walrus haul-outs, polar bear cub mortality linked to climate change

jeremy-hance 1 Sep 2011

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