Saturday’s summer solstice, the longest day of the year, “is a reminder of how Britain has been celebrating the sun for over 4,000 years”, according to the...
A wealthy group of Californian businessmen placed money in envelopes and hid them at a mystery location in London on Saturday morning, with the public invited...
The UK government has been accused of failing to adequately protect marine life and being too slow to designate and enforce new marine conservation zones (MCZ)...
Most internet hackers are trying to create a better world for society, says cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari in this week’s featured TED talk. Elazari, an analyst at the...
Friends of the Earth has compiled a league table of MPs who have gone the furthest to support renewable energy development in their constituency, as part...
As the UN warns that the number of refugees is at its highest since the second world war, campaigners have called for more to be done...
The UN’s world heritage committee has decided to put on hold a decision about whether list the Great Barrier Reef in Australia as endangered because of...
A combination of human-caused environmental degradation and efforts to control the great Yellow river in China, made almost 3,000 years ago, may be responsible for flooding...
Secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that he believes Russia is working with environmental groups to oppose fracking developments...
Lucy Siegle answers 20 questions on life, sustainability and everything. A columnist with the Guardian and Observer and reporter on programmes like The One Show and Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent, Siegle...
Britons drink an estimated 165 million cups of tea every day, creating a huge market and one we cannot afford to see reduced due to climate...
A Coca-Cola plant in India, which has faced criticism for extracting too much groundwater and releasing high levels of pollutants, is to be closed down, officials...
Antarctica must be better protected from tourism and other human activities, after experts noted a surge in the number of visitors travelling to “the planet’s last...
New research suggests that waste coffee could be used to power vehicles and ease concerns around the sustainability of biofuels, whilst also addressing the issue of...
Indigenous people in Australia have won a battle in the federal court to overturn legislation made in 2009 that restricted development around three rivers in Cape...