Scientists have brought back to life a giant virus, which had been sleeping in the permafrost for thousands of years, until the surface started to thaw....
The prime minister has said the Environment Agency will not lose 500 members of staff amid its efforts to deal with Britain’s flooding. However, he has...
The energy secretary Ed Davey has turned up the heat on the energy debate, questioning whether some firms’ profit margins are too high. In a letter...
Despite improvements, major pension schemes still need to make progress when it comes to responsible investment, a new league table compiled by the charity ShareAction shows....
It was a mild winter’s day as I stepped out of Bethnal Green tube to head to Oval Space and TEDxEastEnd. Volunteers with Red umbrellas and...
As a number of companies start looking to extract precious ores from asteroids, a new study has suggested that only a small number of space rocks...
Green spaces in urban environments provide “significant and sustained improvements in mental health” that can last years and have positive effects on public wellbeing, a new...
Nick Robinson’s documentary, The Truth about Immigration, disappointed on many levels. Not least the narrowness of the issues it covered. Like so many complex issues, it...
Experts have warned that the UK must prepare for more flooding and gale-force winds in the coming years, as climate change continues to make extreme weather...
An exceptionally hot week caused the death of vulnerable people in Argentina and left the country’s capital Buenos Aires without power for days, as temperatures hit...
The archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said that Pope Francis, who was elected in March, is his person of the year, describing him as an...
Comic Relief has begun to withdraw its funds from controversial tobacco, arms and alcohol companies, ahead of an eight-week review of its investment policy. This comes...
Many who know the man will find this hard to believe but, by his own admission, Will Day describes himself as a slow learner. In fact,...
The Cryosat spacecraft has acquired data to suggest there was around 9,000 cubic km of sea ice in the Arctic region at the end of the...
The boss of petrochemical company Ineos, Jim Ratcliffe, has said that nobody is going to buy power from the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, as it...