STWR - Share The World's Resources

The impact of the financial crisis on the environment is as yet unclear, although C02 emissions are expected to slow down in the short-term. The real danger is whether the crisis will set back the development of energy alternatives, writes Michael T. Klare.

As climate change fuels stronger storms, no place in the world is equipped to deal with the mass population movements that will occur as a result. The risk of massive economic disruption and migration on an unprecedented scale makes climate change a true security threat, writes Janet Larsen.

The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch, but they have the same cause and the rules are the same in both cases. If you extract resources at a rate beyond the level of replenishment, your stock will collapse, writes George Monbiot.

Climate change is freeing the Arctic of ice - and spurring a global competition for the natural resources stored beneath. Countries that border the sea are staking new territorial claims and oil giants are dispatching geologists. But what will the tug-of-war mean for the indigenous people and wildlife? By Gerald Traufetter.

In the past 10 years, one Danish island has cut its carbon footprint by a staggering 140 per cent. Now, with a simple grid of windfarms, solar panels and sheep, it's selling power to the mainland and taking calls from Shell.By Robin McKie.

Whenever someone has dared challenged the Western lifestyle to address global warming, there has been a quick and sharp retaliation - and R K Pachauri's citing of the meat problem is no exception, writes Devinder Sharma.

The push for Carbon Storage is yet another outcome of pathological business greed and the reliance on technical fixes to tackle symptoms, rather than the systemic sickness at the heart of global capitalism, say Medialens.