Fifty-two years ago today, US president John F Kennedy announced at the 1961 United Nations General Assembly a proposition to implement schemes that could effectively predict...
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits and debris....
Former Irish president Mary Robinson has said that governments must face up to the reality that fossil fuels need to be ditched in favour of cleaner...
The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is close to arriving at the port of Murmansk after being boarded by Russian authorities last week. The environmental group’s lawyers...
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has said the time for debating whether humanity is causing climate change is over. Speaking at a major climate conference...
A North Yorkshire-based egg producer has joined forces with a leading bumblebee charity in an effort to make its farm more bee-friendly and prevent further population...
An international initiative aiming to stop ‘ghost fishing’ has celebrated its first success after retrieving 20 tonnes of discarded fishing nets from the bottom of the...
The energy regulator Ofgem has backed calls from the industry to speed up how long it takes consumers to switch their energy supplier. In statistics released...
Norway has stepped up measures across the country to develop a full-scale carbon capture and storage project by 2020, according to ministers. The decision was announced...
Despite Arctic sea ice coverage improving this year when compared to 2012, scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in the US have...
Reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases could save up to 3 million lives a year by 2100, a new study has suggested. The study, published in...
Governments from around the world will meet on Monday in Stockholm to read the final version of a report from scientists around the world, which is...
Scientists have warned that the total amount of carbon burnt since the industrial revolution must not exceed one trillion tonnes. Experts have calculated that in the...
One hundred women, including scientists, activists, policymakers and cultural leaders from around the world met this weekend in a conference discussing the relationship between climate policy...
In delaying climate change action, we are making the biggest dice roll in recent memory, argues Jae Mather. There are three stages people go through in...