The model used by the Treasury to assess the economic impact of climate change and the UK’s carbon budgets has been described as “deeply flawed” and...
BBC’s wildlife presenter Chris Packham is documenting conservation efforts to stop illegal spring bird hunts in Malta, despite opposition and intimidation by local hunters and police....
A historic court case began in London today, as Britain’s high court opened a pre-trial hearing ahead of proceedings to be heard next year brought by...
Private sector organisations may soon be able invest in the government’s Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), according to reports. The potential of a joint venture...
Researchers have suggested that some cities, such as Bangkok, New Orleans and Jakarta, are at risk from subsiding land, which they say could be an even...
Green Party’s leader Natalie Bennett has called on voters to consider politics for “the common good” and criticised the UKIP’s lack of policies, calling it “the...
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) and conservation non-governmental organisations have announced an initiative to restore one million hectares of rainforest in Indonesia, which would bring back...
Converting cattle farms in the western Andes of Colombia, one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems, into forests could help tackle climate change whilst still paying...
China and the United States, the two most polluting countries in the world, have entered a new phase of talks around how to cut carbon emissions,...
The single biggest threat to the UK may not be terrorism, nuclear war, economic collapse or even climate change, but the eruption of an Icelandic supervolcano,...
It is often observed that extreme weather events provoke public discussion on climate change, causing some climate sceptics to listen to the evidence. However, new research...
The BRE National Solar Centre and conservation groups have announced new guidelines to make solar farms the ideal habitats and corridors for wildlife – including species...
Plans by a Canadian mining firm to extract ores of copper, gold and other metals from the seabed have been approved for a site in Papua...
A business professor at Harvard University has claimed that almost 75% of a UN climate report’s section on climate negotiations was deleted on the request of...
The British government has announced that it will invest £200m in one of the most advanced polar research vessels ever made to support scientists in both...