Twenty-four countries plus the European Union have gathered in Hobart, Australia, as members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), to...
High street lender Metro Bank has said it has seen a 100% increase in customers switching from other current account providers, thanks chiefly to the new...
The National Trust has reaffirmed its current stance against fracking, after its director-general told the Times that the charity had an “open mind” about the technology....
Australian environment minister Greg Hunt has said that the country has a long history of bushfires, and brushed off claims that the recent outbreak is linked...
Pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) saw its drugs sales in China fall 61% between July and September. The decline follows a bribery investigation that began in July....
The Treasury announced on Monday that it would be looking at renewable energy as part of a series of infrastructure development projects worth £33 billion. The...
Almost 60% of food experts at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have some kind of link with the companies that they are tasked with regulating,...
New research has shown that global investment in climate change totalled $359 billion in 2012, roughly the same as the previous year. The figure falls far...
Campaigners from the divestment movement in Canada are pushing for investors to ditch their high-carbon energy stocks because of their impact on climate change. Activists want...
Russian authorities have dropped charges of piracy against 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists, and have accused them of hooliganism instead, according to officials. The ‘Arctic...
If levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere fail to decrease, our oceans will become warmer and more acidic by 2100, affecting the lives of 870...
Six months ago, over 1,000 people died when a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed. Many western brands, whose apparel was manufactured in the factory, were subsequently...
It is six months since one of the world’s worst factory disasters occurred in Bangladesh, killing nearly 1,200 people and affecting thousands more. But what can...
Dartmoor national park is a 368 sq mile area of moorland in Devon. Its status as a protected national park was confirmed in 1951, making it...
Recent energy price hikes have prompted David Cameron to launch a review into green energy taxes. Speaking during prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Cameron said he...