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...
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!...
The Cove is documentary that analyses and questions Japan’s dolphin hunting culture. It follows Richard O’Barry’s efforts to record the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. The...
UKIP’s energy spokesperson, Roger Helmer, has accused anti-fracking campaigners of being “eco-freaks” and trying to kill off the “greatest new economic opportunity”. Speaking at the party’s conference...
Twenty-five Greenpeace activists are being held at gunpoint after a protest in Russia. The country’s coastguard boarded the activists’ ship in the Barents Sea, as campaigners...
Whaling: rugged Scandinavian men with spears and harpoons chasing poor, defenceless whales out of their natural habitat, before slaughtering and eating them. It’s fair to say...
David Nicholls, a private investor, explains what motivated him to put money into the John Cleveland College (JCC) Community Woodheat Co-operative. Like most savers I’ve been despairing...
Sustainability is probably the most important global issue that is least talked about. In essence it’s the need to follow the care instructions for the planet...
A new study has found that the majority of news articles about climate change are centred on narratives about disaster and uncertainty. According to the research,...
Sea ice cover in the Arctic has improved since 2012, when record low levels were noted, but preliminary statistics from the National Snow and Ice Data...
There’s an old Faroese saying – betri er at vera fyrivarin, enn eftirsnarur (it’s better to be prepared than swift afterwards) – that can be used...
With a year to go until Scotland votes over its future as part of the UK, the country’s government has approved the largest tidal power array in Europe, capable of powering the...
The European commissioner for environment, Janez Potočnik, is to be given a Champion of the Earth award from the United Nations. Potočnik, who took office in 2010, has...
Global warming will expose an additional 668 million people worldwide to new or aggravated water scarcity, according to new research. The study, published in the journal...