Beijing has issued a three-day emergency pollution alert, warning residents to keep outdoor activities to a minimum and ordering some industries to limit production. The Chinese...
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) demonstrate how large the tourism industry is in the UK, and the potential it has to have a...
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has said the status of Europe’s seas and oceans is damaged by the industry and that EU member states are at...
A range of leading fashion brands are now adopting sustainability. Morwenna Kearns reports on the recent London Fashion Week. For the first time since its foundation in...
The rapidly melting Pine Island glacier in West Antarctica may be the biggest contributor to rising sea levels over the next few decades, a new study...
It has to be possible to balance freedom of expression with wider moral and social responsibilities, argues David Puttnam in this week’s featured TED talk. Does...
Belize is a rich tropical paradise full of eco-friendly resorts, beautiful protected forests and hidden archaeological Mayan treasures. It is situated on the east coast of...
A Crude Awakening sets out predictions for an oil crash and the implications it would have, as well as looking at what alternatives the world has...
Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz looks at the consequences of economic policy and offers up solutions in Globalisation and Its Discontents. As the former senior...
George Osborne has distanced himself from the climate sceptic wing of the Conservative party, saying that the UK should fight climate change in the cheapest possible...
Some of the worst impacts of the recent floods could have been avoided if the government had used a more forward-looking water management strategy, a group...
The private equity industry believes responsible investment is “here to stay”, with a recent event in Brussels championing the case for taking long-term non-financial factors into...
Euribor-EBF, which overseas the setting of European interest rate benchmarks, “must continue” to reform after several lenders were fined for rigging it, regulators have said. In...
Prolonged storms and heavy rainfall have led to the wettest winter in Britain since records began in 1910, the Met Office has said. Provisional figures said...
A leading charity has welcomed a government-commissioned report into the UK’s food crisis, saying that politicians “can’t ignore” that families are struggling to cope under falling...