Proponents of free trade and fair trade will lock horns in London later in September, in a debate around which is most effective in helping developing...
A shopper in Belfast has found a note allegedly written by a Chinese prison worker who claims to have forcedly worked 15 hours to make clothes...
Oxfordshire, Manchester and Bristol are among the UK hotspots that are leading the way in community investment and activism, new research has revealed. Figures released on...
The UK needs to produce more food with fewer resources and reassure the public on the safety of genetically modified (GM) foods if it wants to...
A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), aimed at finding a “minimum income standard”, has recorded a rise of 46% since 2008 in the amount...
Meat-eaters’ diets have a much larger carbon footprint than vegan, vegetarian and pescatarian diets, a new study published in the journal Climatic Change has found. The study...
If areas that have been ‘land grabbed’ in developing countries were cultivated for the benefit of the local population, the produce could feed up to 550...
British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has confirmed one of its former executives does appear in a sex tape – news that places further pressure on a...
The Superhomes project, a network of homeowners who are retrofitting their houses to make them more energy efficient, has won an award as part of EU...
The Biological Records Centre (BRC), established in 1964 and currently supporting 80 wildlife recording societies, is celebrating its 50th anniversary at Bath University. The data collection...
The British Geological Survey (BGS) has estimated 80 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of shale gas is beneath the Midland Valley of Scotland, a much lower amount...
BNP Paribas is set to pay a record-breaking $8.9 billion (£5.2bn) fine to US authorities for allegedly concealing transactions to dodge the government’s economic sanctions. France’s...
New shop-led research has found that 41% of consumers would buy more fair trade products if there were greater choice, with the majority of respondents unaware...
Institutional investor Legal & General has criticised companies for rewarding chief executives for hitting earnings per share targets when share buybacks are involved. Instead the firm...
Climate change will present a severe threat to the iconic emperor penguin, as temperatures rise and the Antarctic sea-ice that the species depends on disappears, a...