Avoiding the most devastating impacts of climate change may be impossible unless global consumption of meat and dairy products is drastically cut, a new study has...
The Welsh county Monmouthshire has launched an initiative to plant wild flowers and create more grassy areas to increase pollination and the number of bees. The...
World hunger could be prolonged for decades because our global food system is “woefully” unprepared for the impacts of climate change, an Oxfam report has warned....
Climate change and the continued use of polluting fossil fuels will “exacerbate water stress and scarcity” in many places, according to the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon....
Climate change will hit crop yields in temperate and tropical regions earlier than first thought, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal...
David Cameron’s official scientific advisers have called for genetically modified (GM) crops to be expanded in the UK. The Council for Science and Technology (CST) has...
Many curious things are buried beneath London’s busy streets. The list includes disused tube stations, 17th century plague pits, and – if you believe that sort...
The UK government is discussing how to regulate farmers so their poor land use does not amplify the effects of future flooding. After the wettest winter...
As people from all corners of the world are living off an increasingly similar diet, decreasing crop diversity is making the global food system more vulnerable...
The president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has condemned proposals to flood land on high ground to prevent homes and businesses in towns and cities...
New grasses that enable grassland soils to capture increased volumes of rainfall, reducing the risk of flooding downstream, are being developed by scientists from Aberystwyth University’s...
In their new book looking at the issue of cheap meat, Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott highlight why the world is heading for a major global...
The government must show political leadership to push forward ‘back-to-nature’ flood defence schemes that could protect flood-threatened properties at a fraction of the cost of conventional...
All this week on BBC Radio 4, the economist Jim O’Neill, who coined the term BRICS to refer collectively to Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
McDonald’s has set itself a target of only buying “verified sustainable beef” from 2016, though some commentators have questioned the authenticity of such claims. In a...