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Guest post by Tilak Doshi, Originally published at Forbes To the well-heeled tourist visiting London, the UK Court of Appeal’s decision last week to stop the expansion of Heathrow airport will mean more hassle flying into...

From Popular Mechanics A protester did it. We can do it better. By Andrew Daniels Oct 11, 2019 Popular Mechanics HQ was predictably spellbound yesterday when news reports trickled out concerning a protester who glued himself...

From Adelaide Now Alistair Smout, Reuters September 13, 2019 8:29pm Climate-change activists who had hoped to bring Europe’s biggest airport, London Heathrow, to a standstill have found instead that it was their drones...

A UK group of climate activists is planning to fly drones close to Heathrow Airport next month in a direct action they hope will shut down the country’s largest airport for days or even longer...

A third runway at Heathrow airport is ultimately indefensible on environmental groundsThe decision to go ahead with the third runway at Heathrow was taken two years ago; Chris Grayling’s confirmation yesterday marked the...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Once again the Week In Review-Science Edition over at Dr. Judith Curry’s website brings up interesting news. It appears that the first of July was hot in the UK, and among others the airport...

Later this month world leaders will gather in New York for a historic summit on climate change. This is an opportunity to inspire key decision-makers to act in the face of a growing climate crisis that threatens almost every...

Following the opening of Terminal 5 designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners in 2008, Heathrow has continued with a redevelopment plan funded by over $18 billion from private investors over the past ten years...

Yesterday UK Prime Minister David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet in the first major restructuring since the coalition Conservative-Lib Dem government came to power in 2010...

Tim Yeo MP is agitating vigorously for the creation of a third runway at Heathrow airport. This can only mean three things: 1. David Cameron is even more stuffed than we thought. When a Cameroon Wormtongue as assiduous and...

From badger-culling to the abandoned privatisation of the nation's forests, the Coalition's track record on the environment is overwhelmingly negative and mainly unambitiousForests - 2/10Selling off the nation's forests must...

Guest post by Barry Woods, UK The last 2010 edition (Dec 25th 2010) of New Scientist (UK) has a review of 2010 and a preview of 2011 section… …and they are rather optimistic that the world has finally moved...

Heathrow Airport is the world’s busiest airport for international travelers, and anyone who has flown through Heathrow knows it can be a bit chaotic there...