As a number of companies start looking to extract precious ores from asteroids, a new study has suggested that only a small number of space rocks...
“We’re going all out for shale gas”, the shiny man says. All out for a technology whose availability is unproven and undefined, its impacts unclear and...
The US Justice Department has announced that it is formally charging three former traders of Dutch Rabobank over the Libor scandal, in which inter-bank lending rates...
A combination of rising global population, economic growth and climate change means that more than half of the world’s inhabitants will live in ‘water-stressed areas’ by...
A new project has brought together leading US politicians and businessmen to independently assess the potential economic impacts of climate change in the country. The Risky...
Sir David Higgins has said that a large cost reduction is unlikely but warned that the HS2 project is essential to the UK’s economy and to...
Public Health England (PHE) has said there is “substantial and compelling evidence” to support the introduction of standardised cigarette packaging, whilst responding to an independent review....
Crowdfunding is a democratic form of financing that allows people to direct their money towards projects they consider important, innovative and socially useful. Each month, we...
Just one in five Britons would “definitely” support fracking near their homes, whilst 33% would support it elsewhere in the country, a poll by Viewsbank has...
The Dallas Safari Club in the US has auctioned a licence to kill an African black rhino in Namibia – a move that conservationists have labelled...
