International barrister Polly Higgins believes that the destruction of our environment is a crime, and one for which those responsible should be held accountable. In an...
Clare Brook of WHEB Asset Management ponders whether our efforts to prevent the worst impacts of climate change are too late. This piece originally featured in...
Could technology allow us to reverse extinction? Stewart Brand, writer, environmentalist and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, pondered this very question in a TED talk...
Jennifer Granholm was governor of Michigan between 2002 and 2011. In that time, she was re-elected with the largest number of votes ever cast in the...
Climate change deniers and sceptics expend an enormous amount of energy attempting to debunk the overwhelming science on climate change and its human causes. Would the...
Senior UN officials have called on the international community to address social and economic inequalities in order to achieve sustainability. At a General Assembly debate, UN...
A UN fund set up to help developing countries fight the causes and effects of climate change could be ready to launch in 2014, it has...
The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has identified some of the biggest challenges faced by the world as the eradication of extreme poverty and promoting sustainable consumption....
It was 56 years ago today that a 25-year Medical Research Council study confirmed that smoking caused cancer. Tobacco firms rejected the assertion as a ‘matter...
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Climate Change 2013. As one of the defining issues not just of our generation, but of recent human...
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Climate Change 2013. As one of the defining issues not just of our generation, but of recent human history, manmade...
One of the criticisms of solar power and other renewable energies are their apparent status as ‘subsidy junkies’; another is their efficiency. In a recent interview,...
Telecommunications giant BT has launched a new initiative that it says will help customers reduce their carbon footprint by “at least three times” its own emissions...
This is the fourth cartoon in our B******* as usual… series, in which we share work by Manchester-based cartoonist Polyp. For more information on Polyp, see...
Today is World Oceans Day. Canada first proposed the event at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. It was celebrated unofficially every year on the...