Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has spoken out in support of the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir John Beddington, who yesterday warned of the...
The cause of wind farm syndrome was attributed to the psychological effects of anti-wind campaigning, according to a study released last week by public health scientists...
Ecology Building Society was last night named Company of the Year at the New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013, for its “committed” work in sustainable finance....
Shareholders are increasingly feeling disgruntled, and rightly, by the risks fossil fuel companies are taking with their money. Gyorgy Dallos of Greenpeace International writes how investors...
Populist, pandering and pathetic are all adjectives that lend themselves to George Osborne’s fourth budget speech. Entrepreneurs, businesses, scientists, local communities, parents and NGOs will be rightly dismayed....
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has said it wants George Osborne to say that renewable energy will play a key role in creating jobs and encouraging...
Extensive gas exploration in the UK could lead to an unsustainable and expensive energy future, according to a new study. Natural gas is said to help...
Planning consent was yesterday given to the first new nuclear power station in the UK since 1995 – a decision that environmental groups have condemned. Energy...
Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has said that George Osborne is ignoring the vast potential of the UK’s wind, wave and solar resources, by...
The New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013 take place on Thursday in London, and are preceded this year by a conference for the first time. Alex...
A survey of senior managers from some of the UK’s leading renewables firms has shown that only 4% are confident that the UK can meet its...
The budget takes place this Wednesday. Faced with the loss of the UK’s AAA rating and the inexorably rising public debt, the chancellor will feel his...
Forty-six years ago today, over 10,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled out of the supertanker Torrey Canyon and into waters just off the south-west coast of England...
The falling costs of clean energy, particularly solar PV, have boosted the widespread deployment of renewables technologies, according to the Clean Energy Trends 2013 report. The...
After Silva, El Ali and Lidegaard comes the UK’s first representative in our rundown of some of the most environmentally-minded politicians from across the world. Charlie...