Scientists from the University of Cambridge believe they have identified the region of the brain that leads to problem gambling. The research could change the way...
Scientists have found that the maximum extent of sea ice in the Arctic is lowering, with the melting season lasting five more days and the rate...
Friends Life has announced that Schroders will assume responsibility for £12.2 billion Friend Life’s multi asset and equity portfolios, replacing Friend Life’s current provider F&C Asset...
The Conservative party could pledge to cut back on onshore wind farms in its next manifesto, a senior party source has told a national newspaper. The...
Ahead of the 2013/14 ISA deadline, research has shown that a fifth of stocks and shares ISA investors are selecting their investments “blindly”. This is despite...
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Japan must temporarily halt its whale killing for scientific purposes in Antarctica, following a claim brought forward by...
Rowan Williams, chairman of Christian Aid and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has blamed western lifestyles for climate change. He warned that this unsustainable way of...
Simon Howard, chief executive of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), talks to Blue & Green Tomorrow about the key investment risks – and...
Residents in the Lancashire city of Preston are being encouraged by their local council to join the alternative banking campaign Move Your Money. Preston city council...
Scotland-based Standard Life has bought Ignis Asset Management for £390 million. It was announced earlier this week that talks were occurring between the two firms. The...
As human activities make the oceans more acidic many marine species are increasingly being put at risk, including populations of fish that people around the world...
Edinburgh-based pensions and insurance firm Standard Life has confirmed that it is in talks to buy Ignis Asset Management from rival firm Phoenix Group Holdings. Ignis...
If the human race continues expanding, fuelling climate change, and using resources at its current rate, it will eventually need to colonise three more planets to...
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has held the above conference for its students for the last few years. Heavy snow prevented me...
BP has announced that it has reached a resolution with US authorities to lift a contracts ban imposed on it after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in...