World Environment Day (WED), organised by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), takes place on Thursday, hosted by Barbados. The event aims to raise awareness about environmental...
Newly-elected Democratic mayor of New York City, Bill De Blasio, has interrupted Michael Bloomberg’s 11-year reign, and promises to lead on equality, welfare, LGBT rights, air...
Some 700 million children around the world live in the 10 areas most at threat from global warming, according to the charity UNICEF. Meanwhile, almost two-thirds...
Canadian author Naomi Klein has accused big green groups of wrongly aligning with corporations and promoting insufficient measures that have led to poor results, in a...
Warming caused by human activities played a key role in 6 out of 12 extreme weather events that occurred last year, according to a new report....
MPs have criticised the government’s short-sightedness over investment in flood defences, which they say is threatening the UK’s food production. Speaking after George Osborne’s spending review...