A platform for world-changing ideas or a “recipe for civilisational disaster”? TED, the popular conference series that shares “ideas worth spreading”, divides opinion – but the...
Intense winter rainfalls might cause more agricultural chemicals to be washed away into waterways, polluting rivers and encouraging the growth of algae, according to UK academics....
Conservationists have laid out a $10.5m (£6.4m) plan to protect the world’s rarest gorilla from poaching and habitat loss. The critically endangered Cross River gorilla is...
The Labour party has been urged to earn its place in government at the 2015 general election by adopting a bold vision for a “more equal...
Residents in London and the south-east of England will be more likely to suffer the deadly effects of warmer summers caused by climate change than people...
First State’s Will Oulton speaks to Alex Blackburne about stewardship, engagement and being in the sustainable investment community’s favourite band. Will Oulton doesn’t like to talk...
If the human race continues expanding, fuelling climate change, and using resources at its current rate, it will eventually need to colonise three more planets to...
Marks & Spencer is among four UK firms named on the annual World’s Most Ethical (WME) companies list, published by the Ethisphere Institute thinktank. Companies must...
Wind farms can provide enough surplus energy to develop energy storage technology capable of stockpiling three days’ worth of uninterrupted power, a new study has found....
The eighth international Responsible Tourism in Destinations (RTD8) conference takes place in Manchester on April 3-5. Elise Allart, sustainable tourism manager at the Dutch tour operator...
Climate change and the continued use of polluting fossil fuels will “exacerbate water stress and scarcity” in many places, according to the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon....
How much do you know about climate change? How much time do you spend thinking about the long-term, global implications of the continued use of fossil...
It is safe to say that we have always been pretty bad at predicting how our great-great grandchildren will be getting around, though it never stops...
Disregard for pollution law from China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, is having destructive effects on the country’s rivers and land – not to mention...
Do you think there should be fewer MPs? Should the House of Lords be reformed? Should manifesto promises be legally binding? We’re asking those questions and...