If the idea of the Higgs boson meant an urgent requirement of big business to change its thinking and its profits, would we frequently hear Nigel...
Advocacy group Corporate Accountability International (CAI) has called on the World Bank to stop investing in private water firms, as it say they are compromising the poorest...
The chief scientific adviser to the UK government has warned that climate change experts need to learn how best to explain their findings to a wider...
Human rights group Amnesty International has called on Italy and the rest of Europe to do more to prevent further loss of life, following the death of...
Traffic fumes can affect how honeybees locate and identify flowers, seriously impacting their foraging efficiency with potentially damaging effects on already troubled bee populations, according to...
While national politicians are debating major issues and stalling over policies, our city mayors are on the frontline, making decisions that affect people’s everyday lives. That’s...
Political economist Robert Reich’s eagerly-anticipated Inequality for All documentary film is currently showing in US cinemas. An investigation into the country’s growing income gap, Reich explores...
Over 50 mayors from 30 countries have pledged to scale up their efforts to tackle climate change. In the wake of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
Christopher Meyer and Julia Kirby’s latest book, Standing on the Sun: How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere, is a journey into some...
The president of one of the most prestigious and richest universities in the world has told students and its board that when it comes to fossil...
National Ethical Investment Week 2013 is almost upon us. For seven days, between October 13-19, investors, finance professionals, charities, churches and more will congregate at events...
Ed Miliband has said that “a common line of decency” has been breached, after a reporter gatecrashed a memorial service for the Labour leader’s uncle. Miliband...
All 30 of the activists arrested during a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling have now been charged with piracy by the Russian authorities, and could now...
A range of environmentally-focused companies have financially outperformed the wider industry average over one year, bringing in returns of 29% compared to 16%, according to new...
The Woodland Trust has said there is a clear need for “resilient woodland” in the UK, after beginning an operation to fell 200 hectares of Welsh...