Deutsche Bank has reported losses for the fourth quarter of 2013, owing to a surge in litigation costs accrued over the past year. The German bank,...
Outspoken Green MEP Jose Bové has said he is prepared to fight against energy giant Total on the issue of fracking in the UK, after successfully...
Some of the UK’s leading economists have said that the Bank of England should keep interest rates at 0.5% until wages catch up. The Independent Treasury...
Conservation charities have said they fear that the rhino poaching crisis will only get worse in 2014, after more than 1,000 were illegally killed in South...
Asset management firm BlackRock has launched the BlackRock Developed World ex Tobacco Index Fund, in a bid to meet demand from charities, pension schemes and other...
By investing in unethical companies, public sector pension schemes are letting down their employees, according to Friends of the Earth Scotland. Their comments follow an investigation...
Kenya’s government has identified a number of sites where it could develop solar farms – which it said could provide more than half of the country’s...
The government has been accused of rigging the consultation process to select the site of a proposed nuclear waste storage facility in favour of a location...
Two people have died and more than 150 have had to be airlifted to safety over the weekend as “record rainfall” led to led to floods...
The Church of England has announced it is unlikely to drop its fossil fuel investments, despite voices within the faith expressing concern about climate change. The...
The government has revealed the shortlist of bidders that will be invited to deliver proposals for the East Coast rail franchise, as part of a privatisation...
The US ambassador to Japan has said she is “deeply concerned” about the drive hunt dolphin killing that occurs each year in a cove in Taiji,...
Environmental campaigners have said that French fossil fuel giant Total should not be allowed to take part in the UK’s fledgling fracking industry until the reasons...
Western countries are outsourcing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to countries like China through the production of cheap goods that are exported to the US and Europe,...
The Prince of Wales has warned business leaders that they are destroying their grandchildren’s inheritance, after saying the natural world is fast depleting in the name...