Harvard and Columbia university have issued a groundbreaking study estimating that 100,300 premature deaths resulted from the destructive Indonesian forest fire crisis that occurred lat year. The...
Almost half of the world’s population still uses open fires to cook their food risking a number of diseases because of their exposure to air pollution, explains Nathalia Hentze...
Action on climate change could create over 1 million jobs by 2030 across the EU, US and China, while preventing over 100,000 premature deaths each year,...
A new study by the EU’s Joint Research Centre has found that if global temperatures increase by 3.5C climate change damages by 2080 could be in...
A combination of the spread of urbanisation and rising global temperatures caused by climate change could have deadly results, according to a new study investigating heat-related...
It seems wrong that the Twitter hashtag #dryjanuary even exists in the UK, given the amount of rain and flooding we’ve had this year. It’s been widely used...
It is 29 years to the day since a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands and impacted countless others....
Health experts have met on Wednesday to discuss possible solutions to cold homes, which have led to thousands of deaths in England and Wales over the...
The secretary of state for the environment has been labelled “a quack”, after saying that there may be advantages to climate change for the UK. On...
Hundreds of stations that monitor air pollution across the UK could be shut down under government plans to cut costs and reform the Local Air Quality...
As many as 760 people are believed to have died over the last nine days because of the British heatwave, according to research conducted for the Times....
It is hard, if not impossible, to image whether the most important inventions of modern history and the Industrial Revolution itself would have happened without the...
On the night of January 31 1953, a high spring tide and a cyclonic windstorm created a storm surge that raised sea levels by 5.6 metres...
While none of the major gun manufacturers are British, thousands are killed every year by military equipment manufactured in, and sold by, the UK. Ever since...
The effects of climate change on the global economy and human population are already worryingly apparent, according to a new report which claims over $1.2 trillion...