With the G8 summit rapidly approaching, scientists are attempting to ensure climate change is the central agenda of discussions at the symposium for the world’s most powerful leaders, though this time they’ll not be satisfied with placatory noises and no action.

While NASA has been proving the sky is the limit for 40 years and beyond, it appears that down here on earth the organisation is not ammune to a little party political corruption.

Dubious national stereotyping aside, there is a great lineage and association between Scotland and the world’s finest whisky, though that conjugal felicity between man and distillery could be endangered as the climate heats up. In the next seven decades the Scots may have to get used to becoming synonymous with that most popular of French pursuits, winemaking. We’ll give you a moment to get your head around that one.

While some believe Google practically runs the planet anyway these days, the IT company and its directors are still attempting to make sure that said planet is a better place despite all the unparalleled success… from the grassroots up.

Weave-weilding lothario and billionaire Donald Trump may have been trumped himself by the Aberdeenshire Council and the RSPB, as he battles to build a massive links golf course in the heart of irreplaceable sand dune habitats in Scotland. They form part of the Foveran Links Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Polar bears, our wooly friends in the north, are ominously at the mercy of one man; a man whose track record regarding climate change has been tardy to say the least. The fate of the North Pole dwelling white mammal lies squarely at the door of the man in the White House.

Frequent flyers with a conscience will be feeling a little uneasy today following the revelation that airlines are pumping around 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than initial estimates suggested.

You’re arguably the best rock band on earth. You’re worried about the environment but you also have a commitment to fans to visit and play for them the world over.

Newly blondiefied singing sensation Lily Allen is backing a campaign led by Friends of the Earth and the Renewable Energy Association to introduce a “feed-in tariff” system that would improve Britain’s take-up of renewable energy.

It’s only taken seven years of his administration for President George W. Bush to wake up to the realities of Global Warming. The incumbent leader of the free world leaves office this year, and has suddenly, conveniently, belatedly decided that something must be done about the greatest threat to humanity we as a planet face.