New roads and housing developments require “trade-offs” between economic and environmental benefits, the environment secretary Owen Paterson has said. Biodiversity offsetting – where infrastructure developers commit...
As crucial UN climate talks in Warsaw reach their 10th and penultimate day, hundreds of environmental activists have announced they are walking out of the negotiations...
The government has announced the creation of 27 marine conservation zones (MCZs) around the English coasts, falling far short of the 127 reserves recommended by the...
Prince Charles has spoken out about his concerns around climate change action and warned that natural disasters like Typhoon Haiyan will become more frequent. Speaking at...
A new report has suggested that toxic waste poses a “major threat” to the health of more than 200 million people in low and medium income...
Unless you have a good set of instructions to follow, the end result will often never be as good as you’d hoped for or often not...
The same city that the Economist magazine labelled an “urban ghost” in October has been named city of culture for 2017. For Hull – sometimes forgotten and...
As we close in on the much awaited, heavily trailed 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, the BBC has been pumping out enough Whovian content to satisfy...
African negotiators have called on the international community to help it face a range of climate-related challenges that they say will severely affect the continent if...
The organisers of a global event set to look at how best to utilise the world’s natural assets have said businesses “need to be part of...
A Russian court has granted bail to nine Greenpeace activists who were arrested back in October in a protest against drilling in the Arctic. This brings...
Just four of the 25 environment-related areas that the coalition government promised to address have made ‘good progress’ since 2010, according to a group of 41...
Access to clean and safe sanitation is a basic human right, but there are still 2.5 billion people around the world who do not have the...
Aberdeen Asset Management has signed a deal with Lloyds Banking Group to buy Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) that will see its ethical and responsible assets...
Brazil’s environment minister at the climate negotiations in Warsaw has blamed criminal organisations for the deforestation of the Amazon, but said that they were “isolated cases”....