The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said that energy efficiency has the potential to boost economic growth and sustainable development and not only reduce energy demand,...
The heavily militarised region of Kashmir, shared by both India and Pakistan, has endured the worst rainfall in 50 years as flash floods took thousands by...
British winters are becoming more extreme, with unpredictable swings between very mild, stormy winters and very cold, snowy ones becoming more likely, a new study has...
If the UK government sticks to its carbon budgets, which set targets for national emission reductions through the coming decades, every household could be £565 better...
At its annual general meeting (AGM) on Wednesday, retailer Sports Direct will face questions over the use of zero hour contracts for part time staff. Such...
The UK’s biggest energy firms have been told by the energy regulator to refund 3.5 million domestic customers a total of £153 million from closed accounts,...
Approximately half of North America’s 650 bird species, including the bald eagle, will be disrupted by climate change over the next 65 years, a new report...
The University of California (UC) has agreed to take environmental issues into account over investment decisions but has not considered the option of total divestment from...
Our appetite for material things that we cannot have is seriously harming the planet’s resources according to the new book by a researcher from the University...
A controversial cull of badgers to prevent the spread of bovine TB has resumed, despite evidence suggesting that the practice is inhumane and ineffective. [Blue &...
NASA is developing a new probe that will create a unique 3D map of all the world’s forests, in an attempt to improve understanding of their...
The area burned by forest fires in Europe could increase by 200% by 2090 because of the impacts of climate change, a new study from the...
If scientists had today’s tools in the 1990s, they would have been able to forecast a pause in global rising temperatures, according to a new study...
This week, environmental group Greenpeace have launched a campaign to save over 400,000 trees and its local inhabitants in Mahan, India, from a potentially illegal coal...
Wild species related to our crops and are crucial as a potential future food resource have been identified in a study. However, researchers from the University of Birmingham...