Renewable energy firm Ecotricity has bought a small wind firm out of administration, while blaming government policies for leaving “investors spooked”. Small wind firm Evance has...
The National Union of Students (NUS) held a parliamentary reception at the House of Lords yesterday to celebrate the impact of its £5 million fund for...
The UN’s sustainable development arm has unveiled six principles for sustainable food production, aimed at ensuring that food produced worldwide is healthy, good for the...
A blogger who was asked by police to remove tweets in which he fact-checked a UKIP campaign poster has alleged the party tried to curtail his...
Investment professionals in the US are recognising the growing risk around investing in the fossil fuel industry, with three-quarters saying such risk is increasing. The fossil...
The majority of actively-managed investment funds are not needed, according to Michael Johnson, pensions expert at the thinktank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). His comments...
Groundwater extraction for use in areas such as agriculture is triggering seismic activity along the San Andreas Fault in California, a new study has suggested. The...
The families of victims in the Turkish coal mine disaster have criticised the country’s government, as hopes of finding survivors slip away and the death toll...
Researchers have found that over the past 30 years the location where tropical cyclones reach maximum intensity has been shifting towards the poles. The changes have...
Last month was the second warmest April worldwide since records began, according to preliminary measurements from NASA. Around the world, temperatures averaged 58.5F (14.7C), 1.3F (0.7C)...
An urgent wake-up call has gone out to the commercial property sector with new data on a £29 billion green refurbishment bill. We have written about...
Suzanne Laidlaw from the Environment Agency writes about a new initiative that uses environmental data to inform investment decisions. The CLEAR Info project (Company Level Environmental...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
A petition launched by the Fairtrade Foundation asking supermarkets to pay a fair price to banana farmers has reached 70,000 signatures and has been handed to...
Banks could face further rounds of capital rising and restructuring to ensure that the financial system will not collapse in the event of another financial crisis,...