After a nine-year wait, construction has begun on a new community-owned hydroelectricity plant on the river Gynack at Kingussie, in the Scottish Highlands. The Kingussie Community...
Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular form of financing that allows entrepreneurs to realise their ideas with the help of the crowd. Crowdfunder, the UK’s biggest crowdfunding...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
While most people’s eyes will be on the 22 players from Brazil and Croatia kicking off the 2014 World Cup on Thursday, Hyewon Kong looks at...
Torrential rainfall has led to Brazilian state officials declaring an emergency in 130 cities, including World Cup host city Curitiba. In the Parana state some 13,000...
The banking and finance industry has come under intense pressure since the financial crisis, after scandals and examples of bad practice emerged, but it could take...
One third of the world’s corn is grown in highly water-stressed regions, raising questions over the sustainability of global food supply, experts have warned. According to...
A new study published in the Nature Communications journal has found that when scientists injected a DNA cutting enzyme into mosquitoes they produced 95% male offspring,...
US secretary of state John Kerry has called for international cooperation to protect oceans that are “under siege” from overfishing, pollution and acidification. On Monday, the...
Network Rail has reported a pre-tax profit of £1 billion for the year ending March 31, but says that severe winter weather, which caused flooding in...
The winners of the 2014 Observer Ethical Awards were announced on Wednesday night at a ceremony in London, with activist and music legend Brian May among...
European regulators have launched a full inquiry into tax deals brokered between tax officials and multinational corporations including Apple and Starbucks. The higher rates of corporation...
Derby city council has decided to put its decision on fracking on hold in order to investigate the environmental impact of the controversial extraction method before...
A new website has been launched to help football fans choose a team to support at the Brazil World Cup, based not on patriotic allegiances or...
Chancellor George Osborne is set to announce tougher measures to punish those committing wrongdoings in the financial sector, including making the manipulation of the foreign exchange...