A new study analysing the impact of urbanisation on biodiversity has found that protecting green spaces and restoring plant species in cities could allow developed areas...
Academics at the University of Aberdeen have urged the EU to assess the long-term impacts of oil spills and influence legislation outside the union as drilling...
More than 100 Winter Olympians have signed a statement demanding progress on measures to tackle climate change, saying, “We can’t risk inaction any longer.” In an...
The north-west of England and western parts of Wales have been handed red warnings by the Met Office, ahead of forecasted gales of 80-100mph on Wednesday...
Buenos Aires has won the 2014 Sustainable Transport Award, after improvements to the world’s widest avenue turned the Argentinean capital into “a city for people, not...
The presidents of France and the US have issued a joint call for an “ambitious” global agreement to tackle climate change ahead of the crucial 2015...
Conservation organisations have gathered in London to discuss the increasing high-profile issue of wildlife trafficking and poaching, in order to find solutions to the phenomenon that...
The prime minister has said that “money is no object” in terms of the government helping areas of the UK currently being severely hit by extreme...
Seb Beloe, head of sustainability research at WHEB, on how a little-known section of the Climate Change Act could be crucial in responding efficiently to extreme...
A legal bid by Donald Trump to halt the construction of a wind farm off the coast of his luxury Aberdeenshire golf course has been rejected...
As a northern Italian, when I think about the south of my country I see good pizza and beautiful beaches. But such idyllic places are also...
Some coastal communities in Wales may be abandoned to the advancing sea because of the rising cost of maintaining defences, it has been revealed. BBC Wales...
Hundreds of homes have been evacuated overnight in Berkshire and Surrey as water levels along the Thames rise. Forecasters warn that more strong winds and heavy...
A US conservation organisation has divested 70% of the exposure to fossil fuel stocks it previously held, because of the “urgency of the threat” that climate...
If a meteor threatened life on Earth, we probably wouldn’t be told until the last minute, in the interests of maintaining public order. A tiny informed...