Conservationists and scientists in Brazil have called on football’s governing body Fifa to put more effort into protecting the Brazilian three-banded armadillo that inspired this summer’s...
With the England football squad kicking off its preparations for the World Cup with a friendly against Peru on Friday, the National Grid has spoken of...
An investigation by Greenpeace has revealed that football merchandise produced for this summer’s World Cup by some leading sports brands contain hazardous chemicals. Well-known brands such...
Around 6.5 million people were employed by the renewable energy industry worldwide at the end of 2013, according to figures from the International Renewable Energy Agency...
The WWF has criticised the majority of European and UK firms that buy soy for animal feed, saying that they are not putting enough effort into...
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....
The US Defence Department has suggested that climate instability in the future could lead to global security problems linked to resource scarcity and social unrest which...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
Russian energy giant Gazprom and textiles firm Gap have been named as the worst businesses for human rights and environment violations at the annual Public Eye...
New research has found that just seven countries, including the UK, account for 63% of climate change. Relative to population size, the UK has pumped the...
With one week to go before voting closes, energy firm Gazprom, football’s governing body Fifa and a trio of pesticide firms are among the frontrunners for...
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...
All this week on BBC Radio 4, the economist Jim O’Neill looked at the new set of emerging economies. He’s calling them MINT: Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria...
Deforestation in the Amazon region not only affects the local climate and biodiversity, but also access to water, food and energy for people in Latin America,...
A new report by the thinktank Policy Exchange has suggested that the government should act “ruthlessly” in its efforts to reduce energy bills, by cutting back...