Board members at Kingfisher’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) tomorrow will be called upon to pay B&Q staff the Living Wage set out by the Living Wage...
A 100 metre tall windmill has been built at the RSPB’s headquarters near Sandy in Bedfordshire. To honour the completion of the project, Ecotricity has released...
Gadgets and other electronic gifts being given over the Christmas period are set to increase the UK’s energy bill by £392 million, the equivalent of lighting...
The Great British Bee Count has found yellow and black bumblebees to be the most common species volunteers have seen across the UK, all of which...
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...
The venom from a deadly Australian spider has been combined with a plant-based protein to create a bio-pesticide that poses no threat to bees. Scientists claim...
Listing names as varied as Sir David Attenborough, Joanna Lumley, Caroline Lucas and Lenny Henry among its winners, the Observer Ethical Awards are back for a...
Nominations have opened for the 2014 Observer Ethical Awards – an annual event that recognises businesses, communities and individuals doing exceptional things for the environment and...
Waitrose has asked its suppliers not to use neonicotinoids after concerns these might be responsible for decline in bees populations. The supermarket chain has launched a...
Campaign group the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) has revealed how Bayer, Sygenta and other pesticide producers have put pressure on the European commission to fight against...
Four garden centre retailers that own 60 stores across the UK have pledged to remove a harmful stream of insecticide that has been linked to the...
The European Commission has urged EU countries to ban the use of the neonicotinoid insecticides that are said to have driven a decline in the bee...
Homebase has become the third major hardware retailer to phase out the sale of neonicotinoid insecticides that have been linked to the fall in bee numbers....