Recent spates of extreme weather events such as flooding, wildfires and superstorms have gone some way to changing the way sceptics view climate change, according to...
The government revealed yesterday that the controversial gas extraction technique, hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), would be restarted in the UK. Reaction has been mixed within the...
The House of Commons environmental audit committee has tabled evidence that links common insecticides to the declining number of bees. An inquiry was arranged in order...
Energy secretary Ed Davey has revealed the government’s plans to allow hydraulic facturing (fracking) operations to restart in the UK, despite fears that the natural gas...
Waitrose has revealed that its planned partnership with Shell, which would have seen the pair collaborate at petrol stations across the UK, has been put on...
David Cameron is set to answer questions on the government’s environmental credentials at 4pm this afternoon, when he faces the House of Commons liaison committee. The...
Boris Johnson’s Telegraph column yesterday lauded fracking as “an answer to the nation’s prayers“. But, in a piece that originally appeared on his blog, Tim Fenton unpicks Johnson’s article, which...
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has secured over 30,000 signatures in a petition for supermarket chain Waitrose to drop its affiliation with oil giant Shell. Waitrose announced...
The Green Investment Bank (GIB) has appointed Peter Knott as its chief risk officer. The former Deloitte & Touche executive was Chief Operating Officer of Risk...
The Arctic is found to have surpassed a number of records in 2012, including for sea ice loss, snow cover and Greenland ice sheet melting, according...
Sea levels have risen by over 11mm since 1992 because of increased ice melt in both Greenland and Antarctica, according to a comprehensive study by a...
Plans to build a £30 billion tidal barrage across the river Severn have been put into doubt, after a new report claimed that a mixture of...
As climate talks get underway in Doha, environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has said that severe flooding in the UK should “wake up” world leaders...
Over at Desmogblog, a guest post by James Lawrence Powell demolishes the scientific credibility of climate deniers. By Jim’s definition, 24 of the 13,950 articles, 0.17%...
The Environment Agency has issued 83 flood warnings, covering much of the UK, as a man dies near Bath after becoming trapped in his car. The...