The results from Thursday’s local elections are in, with the “tremors” of the political earthquake owed to UKIP’s inroads being a key theme. UKIP leader Nigel...
Barclays bank has been fined £26 million and a former trader struck off over allegations of his role in gold price fixing. The Financial Conduct Authority...
A group of children from Tanzania immune to malaria are helping US researchers in their attempts to find life saving treatments for the disease. The researchers...
Honeybees’ foraging preferences can provide valuable information for governments about how to manage rural landscapes, according to researchers from the University of Sussex. The research, published...
Fast food giant McDonald’s plans to implement its recent pledge to purchase sustainable beef using region-specific standards for its suppliers. By handing over responsibility to its 36,000...
Sustainability, in all its forms, will be celebrated at inaugural Sustainable September this year. We want the month to be shaped by you, our readers, so...
Better accessibility and promotion are the two most important factors in encouraging more young people to have their say by voting at elections, argues Jack Lewis,...
A soon-to-be-published report is set to say that the amount of carbon being lost by the degradation of tropical rainforests is underestimated. The new research says...
Seventeen bison, Europe’s largest wild mammals, have been released into the wild in Romania, more than 200 years after being driven out the region by poachers....
Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, and his wife Melinda discuss why philanthropy gives them so much satisfaction in this week’s featured TED talk. The pair,...
Two million polymer £5 notes are set to be printed by the Scottish bank Clydesdale and distributed for limited use in 2015. The new banknotes, featuring...
In the follow-up to the acclaimed Gasland, filmmaker Josh Fox takes a deeper and broader look at the dangers of the controversial method of extracting natural...
Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review takes a comprehensive look at the economics of climate change and seeks to give the understanding needed to underpin...
After a week that featured the hottest day of the year so far and several thunderstorms, the weather outlook for the spring bank holiday weekend doesn’t...
Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer has said he will target the campaigns of seven US senate and governors this year, in an attempt to make climate...