The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has called for Britons to take five simple actions to help bees thrive, creating a favourable environment for...
Owen Paterson has been sacked as environment secretary as a part of a government reshuffle, with his critics welcoming the move. Paterson has previously been the...
The public has been invited to download a free smartphone app that allows them to count and identify bees. It is hoped that the data will...
BBC presenter Alys Fowler is urging gardeners to make use of their time off this Easter by making their gardens more bee-friendly, in an effort to...
A forthcoming UN report will say there is still time to prevent runaway climate change, but only if investment is rapidly shifted away from fossil fuels...
The campaign group Friends of the Earth has said the world must “stand up to the fossil fuels industry” ahead of the launch of a new...
The Met Office has warned of further disruptions from flooding in the south-west, West Midlands and some parts of Wales on Wednesday, as David Cameron says...
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said there is “no legal or economic basis” to change the UK’s fourth carbon budget, which covers the period...
The government’s decision not to include a decarbonisation target for the power sector in the energy bill is to be challenged in the House of Lords...
The world’s leading climate scientists have unveiled the first part of a major report, which says that the evidence for manmade climate change is stronger than...
A leading agrochemicals group has submitted a legal challenge to the European commission, over its decision to suspend the use of a pesticide that it said...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched an “urgent review” and a national strategy to tackle the decline of honeybees and other pollinators....
A vote to include a 2030 decarbonisation target in the government’s energy bill has been voted down by a majority of 23 MPs in the House...
The European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) has picked out a number of dangerous risks to bees posed by a trio of common insecticides. Clothianidin, imidacloprid and...
David Cameron is set to answer questions on the government’s environmental credentials at 4pm this afternoon, when he faces the House of Commons liaison committee. The...