Emperor penguins are being forced to climb up walls of ice 100 feet high to reach new breeding grounds, because warming temperatures are changing their Antarctic...
McDonald’s has set itself a target of only buying “verified sustainable beef” from 2016, though some commentators have questioned the authenticity of such claims. In a...
Whilst drones in armed combat are often subject to criticism over human rights violations, in this week’s featured TED talk the ecologist Lian Pin Koh sets...
The Lake District will be the UK’s next nomination for world heritage status, the government has revealed. Culture minister Ed Vaizey said the national park can...
Alternative investments like fine wine, art, stamps, classic cars and watches are reportedly more profitable than shares. That’s according to the latest Coutts Index, which says...
The Met Office has said that it is not entirely sure that recent extreme weather in the UK can be attributed to climate change. It added...
China’s former health minister Chen Zhu has estimated that up to 500,000 premature deaths are caused each year by air pollution – now the fourth biggest...
The trade body for the sustainable investment industry is seeking its members’ opinions on how it can improve its work for 2014, in the form of...
Ben Goldsmith answers 20 questions on life, sustainability and everything. Goldsmith is an environmentalist, philanthropist and a partner at sustainable investment business WHEB, which he co-founded...
The UK government’s claims that it is spending more money on flood defences than ever before are incorrect, environmental campaigners have said. While just under 100...
The conservation of historic sites, habitats and the local ecosystem has catapulted the Azores Islands, 850 miles west of Portugal, to the upper end of rankings...
Global venture capital investment in clean technology (cleantech) totalled $6.8 billion (£4.1 billion) in 2013, with energy efficiency, transportation and solar the most profitable sectors, according...
A sustainability manifesto for businesses and cities, Michael Blowfield and Leo Johnson’s Turnaround Challenge: Business & the City of the Future outlines the steps required towards...
The UK has too few honeybees and faces food security issues in the future as a result of this lack of pollinators, a new study has...
Geoengineering could be a solution for northern Europe and parts of Asia but at the expense of regions in Africa, North and South America and south-east...