Financial consultants involved in advising local authorities to take high-risk investments in Icelandic banks that subsequently failed are now advising councils on Libor rate-rigging losses, despite...
New research has shown that water from US fracking sites had levels of chemicals able to influence estrogens and androgens hormones. The study, published on Endocrinology,...
Around £1.3 billion was directly invested into the renewable energy sector in 2013, according to Trillion Fund. The sector benefited from a huge boost from retail...
The Lloyd’s of London insurance market has announced the appointment of its first female chief executive. Inga Beale, who has 30 years’ experience in the industry,...
A new report by the Airport Commission has said that new runaways at Gatwick or Heathrow are needed to expand the UK’s airport capacity by 2030....
The Cryosat spacecraft has acquired data to suggest there was around 9,000 cubic km of sea ice in the Arctic region at the end of the...
A new study has found that only 15 of the 521 wind farm sites it analysed suffer with noise problems – which the authors claim can...
A number of environmental organisations have appealed to the European Court of Justice to defend the ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, imposed by the European Union because...
Food bank use has gone up by 60% in the last year alone in the south-east of England, the UK’s second wealthiest area after London, according...
Sir David Attenborough has said that the natural world is being changed by mankind to such an extent that animals can no longer survive, warning that...
Despite a challenging live refurbishment, professional services firm PwC’s 450,000 sq ft headquarters in London has been given the highest ever BREEAM rating, for both new...
Anti-fracking campaigners have delivered a giant wind turbine blade as a ‘Christmas gift’ to shale gas firm IGas, blocking the entrance to its drilling site in...
The boss of petrochemical company Ineos, Jim Ratcliffe, has said that nobody is going to buy power from the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, as it...
China’s recent concern over pollution and climate change may result in a shift in coal consumption, particularly affecting Australian coal assets, a new report has said....
Governments are being urged to withdraw funding from energy projects led by the World Bank, as the institution asks for donations to pay for a controversial...