The Independent

If the alliance was arrogant at the time of the invasion, it is even more so today

A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. By Kathy Marks and Daniel Howden

Worldwide outrage over Afghan sentenced to death for reading article on women's rights. Join the Independent campaign now. By Kim Sengupta, Jerome Starkey

It would be sheer folly to imagine that the 15 environment ministers meeting in Hawaii tomorrow are going to achieve anything substantial.

Poll of 500 major firms reveals that only one in 10 regard global warming as a priority. By Tricia Holly Davis, Geoffrey Lean and Susie Mesure

The European Commission yesterday began to add flesh to the bones of its plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Skipsea is disappearing fast. It sits on the fastest-eroding coastline in Europe and every year the sea swallows another chunk of land. Mark Hughes visits the people living on the edge

Recession fears wipe £84bn off the value of Britain's biggest companies as stock markets tumble across the globe. By Nick Clark

What do a blind salamander that can go without food for a decade, a frog so small that it fits on a drawing pin and another that lives only in the human burial grounds have in common? By Cahal Milmo

A month ago it vowed to fight deforestation. Now research reveals it funds the rainforest's biggest threat. By Daniel Howden

Gordon Brown faces the biggest test of his environmental credentials this week, with the Government due to give the go-ahead to a new generation of nuclear power stations. By Ben Russell

This Canadian wilderness is set to be invaded by BP in an oil exploration project dubbed ... By Cahal Milmo

While public anger is directed at the Pentagon for sending American soldiers ill-prepared to fight in Iraq, an equally troubling problem is rearing its head at home.

Energy giant E.on UK sought permission last night from Medway Council to replace existing coal-fired units at Kingsnorth power station in Medway, Kent.

Kenya edged closer to tribal warfare last night after more than 100 people – at least 80 of them children – burned to death as the church they had fled to for refuge was set alight. By Steve Bloomfield

The UK's biggest polluters will reap a windfall of at least £6bn from rising power prices and the soaring value of carbon under the new European carbon trading scheme that critics say fails to correct the flaws of the system it replaced. By Danny Fortson

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The US drought is now so acute that, in some southern communities, the water supply is cut off for 21 hours a day. Leonard Doyle reports from Chattanooga, Tennessee, on a once-lush region where the American dream has been reduced to a single four-letter word: rain

Some 831 days after Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police with seven bullets to the head, the first public declaration of blame was made when the Metropolitan Police was found guilty yesterday of making 19 catastrophic errors in the operation which led to his death. By Cahal Milmo

President Bush declares 'major disaster' as cost of California blaze exceeds £1bn

Turkey used its helicopters and artillery to attack Kurdish guerrillas inside northern Iraq yesterday as the Turkish army massed just north of the border. The helicopter gunships penetrated three miles into Iraqi territory and warplanes targeted mountain paths used by rebels entering Turkey.

By Leonard Doyle in Washington 24 October 2007

President George Bush will have spent more than $1 trillion on military adventures by the time he leaves office at the end of ne