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,...
Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has donated $1 million (£595,000) to a leading elephant conservation charity through his philanthropic foundation. The sum will go to the Elephant...
Charities and social enterprises are being urged to consider the ethics of their investments, following the revelations about Comic Relief last year, by the Association of...
Doves Farm is a family-owned business specialising in organic, fairtrade and ethical flours, without using additives or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Doves Farm Foods was created...
The Chinese police have accused a British GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) executive and his colleagues of having bribed hospital and government officials to prescribe the company’s drugs, running...