The rising trend of online shopping could harm the environment as more lorries take to the road to meet increased demand, the Institution of Engineering and...
Industrial black carbon has caused the melting of European glaciers and led to the end of the so-called Little Ice Age around 150 years ago, a...
The Environment Agency has put nineteen flood warnings in place across the south west of England, with floods expected to cause further disruptions. The Environment Agency...
Emperor penguins are being forced to climb up walls of ice 100 feet high to reach new breeding grounds, because warming temperatures are changing their Antarctic...
McDonald’s has set itself a target of only buying “verified sustainable beef” from 2016, though some commentators have questioned the authenticity of such claims. In a...
The CEO of the Royal Mail has reaffirmed that the company’s commitment to its corporate sustainability agenda, following its recent floatation on the London Stock Exchange,...
The government has backed down over a controversial bill that charities claimed would have effectively gagged them, and severely restricted their abilities to campaign on social...
A leading environmental campaign group has come up with a unique idea to create a cause and effect link between driving and climate change. US-based 350.org...
The Lake District will be the UK’s next nomination for world heritage status, the government has revealed. Culture minister Ed Vaizey said the national park can...
The Met Office has said that it is not entirely sure that recent extreme weather in the UK can be attributed to climate change. It added...
A new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found that the energy mix of member countries has “barely changed” since the...
China’s former health minister Chen Zhu has estimated that up to 500,000 premature deaths are caused each year by air pollution – now the fourth biggest...
The trade body for the sustainable investment industry is seeking its members’ opinions on how it can improve its work for 2014, in the form of...
The Investment Management Association’s (IMA) latest investment statistics show a 20% increase in the amount invested in ethical retail funds in the year to November 2013....
More than a third of financial services executives agree that their peers should be held criminally responsible for reckless behaviour, as this would be good for...