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...
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...