Photographer Gideon Mendel's series, Drowning World, not only shows the effect of flooding on communities, but also encompasses traditional portraiture, and explores the often striking visuals such huge influxes of water produce.
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Coalition faces an exodus of energy experts as funding for renewables is held up on grounds of cost
Saturday 11 May 2013
Blow to fight against climate change as CO2 in the atmosphere hits record high
Carbon dioxide in atmosphere at highest level for 5 million years
Friday 10 May 2013
Atmosphere rising at fastest rate since records began
Coming to sites across the UK soon – fracking flares
Thursday 09 May 2013
IGas chief warns that any production of shale gas would involve 'flaring off' leakages
Page 3 Profile: Melanie Phillips, saviour of the west
Monday 06 May 2013
Got something to say, has she?
Conservative MP, Nigel Evans, arrested on suspicion of raping man
Sunday 05 May 2013
Deputy speaker, 55, is also accused of sexually assaulting a second male
Top energy adviser walks out over 'Treasury meddling'
Friday 03 May 2013
The essential overhaul of Britain’s energy system has been thrown into disarray by the resignation of one of its architects – just as Energy Secretary Ed Davey prepares to escalate his drive to stamp out doubts about the existence of climate change.
It's crunch time for a climate change deal - and the UK is pushing hard to seal one
Friday 03 May 2013
An agreement can be reached but it requires strong political will, says the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Why Britain is failing to cut its carbon footprint
Sunday 28 April 2013
Rebecca Tyrrel: 'By 2020, the hope is that Britain will have a politician named Street Downing'
Saturday 27 April 2013
Who knew that there is a member of the US House of Representatives by the name of David Camp who may yet pioneer an exciting variation on the idea of "nominative determinism", or "cognomen syndrome" as Tom Stoppard coined it in his play Jumpers.
MPs warn fracking may not bring down gas prices
Friday 26 April 2013
George Osborne's plan to curb rising energy bills by unleashing a fracking revolution was dealt a further blow yesterday after a cross-party committee of MPs cast doubt on whether any boom in shale gas production will bring down gas prices.
What The Sunday Papers Said
Monday 22 April 2013
The Independent on Sunday: Bupa is 'taking the micky', angry patients tell inquiry
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- 2 Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
- 3 Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
- 4 EDL marches on Newcastle as attacks on Muslims increase tenfold in the wake of Woolwich machete attack which killed Drummer Lee Rigby
- 5 Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
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