Standard Chartered has joined nine other banks in committing to helping prevent deforestation by cutting out businesses whose operations drive the practice by 2020. The Soft...
Budget cuts to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) could have a major impact on innovation research, energy efficiency and the UK’s ability to...
Unless ambitious action is taken to reduce carbon emissions the world’s oceans are facing dangerous and irreversible impact that could affect seafood supply, according to a...
Actor and environmentalist Robert Redford has argued that climate change should transcend politics in order to get past “narrow-minded bickering between ideologies” if the world is...
A newly released government report has admitted that houses close to fracking operations in the UK could see their value fall by up to 7% and...
The two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, China and the US, are among the countries that have unveiled climate change plans in recent days. The growing...
Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the UN, has said climate change negotiations are going “far too slow” and urged governments, business leaders and communities to work...
US President Barack Obama and British naturalist Sir David Attenborough discussed climate change and the future of the planet at a meeting at the White House....
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has urged the heads of six European oil majors to transition to cleaner technologies...
World leaders have a “historic opportunity” this year to tackle climate change and eradicate poverty, according for NGOs who are calling on them to seize the...
Climate change will aggravate social and political tensions for decades to come unless action is taken, according to a new report commissioned by the G7 governments....
The latest update from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals that over 22,000 species around the world are now threatened with extinction, from the...
Emissions from the power sector will peak in 2029 and “tremendous progress” will be made to decarbonise power generation over the next two and a half...
The world is currently in a period of mass extinction, according to a new study. Human activities have been linked to the falling populations of many...
Diana Ibáñez López takes a look at Greenland’s ice sheets, the secrets they hold and how scientists have unlocked them over decades of research. This article...