Environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are “failing the population challenge”, according to research from environmentalist and writer Jonathon Porritt and the charity Population Matters. Porritt argues that population...
The city council of Los Angeles has voted to start drafting rules that would ban the controversial process of fracking within its jurisdiction. Following concerns raised...
The controversial pilot badger culls carried out in parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset last year were inhumane and ineffective, new analysis has found. According to reports...
The world’s longest aircraft has been unveiled – a unique, helium-filled hybrid airship that, it’s designers say, can offer environmentally friendly and sustainable flight. Its development...
As much as a third of all the food the world produces is never eaten, causing huge inefficiencies in economic, energy and natural resource use, according...
The Church of England has placed a job listing for the position of head of responsible investment. The posting follows strong criticisms around the church’s investments...
Mt Gox, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, has filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan following reports that it lost almost half a billion dollars’ worth...
The Italian Sustainable Investment Forum (SIF) has launched the second edition of its sustainable investment award, celebrating institutions that excel in responsible finance. Last year the...
American ice-cream brand Ben & Jerry’s is supporting a campaign launched by the Fairtrade Foundation to make retailers pay more for bananas, as it believes businesses...
Exposure to a certain type of man-made pollutant has been linked to the development of certain metabolic complications of obesity in humans by a pioneering new...
Criminal gangs who tricked British investors out of millions of pounds have been targeted in the biggest ever international crackdown on boiler room fraud. The operation...
When Corporations Rule the World argues that economic globalisation has concentrated the power to govern global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to...
Boiler Room, starring Ben Affleck, Vin Diesel and Giovanni Ribisi, is inspired by the life of Jordan Belfort, whose story has recently been adapted in The...
With a rising global population, greater demand in consumerism and many tightly-held green myths, ecological systems are expected to face grave pressures in the coming decades....
The recently observed increase in summer sea-ice cover in Antarctica’s Ross Sea is likely to be short-lived, according to the findings of a new study that...