Daily showers and overfilled kettles account for Britain’s greatest domestic water use, according to a report by the Energy Saving Trust. One of the biggest studies...
The last 10 years were the hottest since modern measurements began, according to the United Nations World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). A new report says the years...
The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has identified some of the biggest challenges faced by the world as the eradication of extreme poverty and promoting sustainable consumption....
Environmental activists from the US and Canada will join native elders for a ‘healing walk’, a spiritual meeting organised to nurse the land, air and water...
As Russia partners with Shell to exploit natural resources in the Arctic, Greenpeace has claimed that oil companies from the country spill over 30m barrels a...
The mayor of London Boris Johnson has said that the city should exploit its full shale gas potential in order to “keep the lights on” and...
The Amazon, the Mediterranean and regions of east Africa will be at the highest risk of extreme ecosystem changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, according to...
A four-man Irish-Canadian team of rowers embarked on a trip on Monday that they say is only possible because of global warming. The rowers, who between...
Apart from being popular in Chinese cuisine, seaweed has another quality that may be useful in everyday life: as a source of clean energy. Attempts to...
Almost 40% of farmers are using clean energy across the UK, compared to just 5% in 2010, according to a new survey. However, the majority feel...
Dutch bank Rabobank has announced it will not lend money to businesses that deal with unconventional energy extraction, including shale gas, because of the environmental and...
It’s made of over 1,000 empty bottles, 120 hubcaps, four car doors, two bonnets, two disused shopping trolleys and took 900 hours to build. And Ecover’s...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched an “urgent review” and a national strategy to tackle the decline of honeybees and other pollinators....
Westmill Solar Co-operative – the Oxfordshire-based 5 megawatt (MW) solar farm that raised over £4m in a community share offer in 2012 – has been recognised...
New figures have revealed that four streets in east London are among the worst for air quality, while the city as a whole boasts higher levels...