Bio energy and carbon capture and storage (BECCS) could be the key to avoiding the most serious consequences of climate change, according a new study. If...
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has approved plans to build “the world’s largest offshore wind farm” off the coast of Lincolnshire and Norfolk...
Environmental instability often fuels dangerous social conflict, writes Jim Sanders, a retired west Africa watcher for various federal agencies in the US, in an article that...
Protecting ecosystems and promoting sustainable farming practices will be crucial in mitigating the effects of climate change, according to a new report. However, water scarcity and...
Billionaire asset manager and philanthropist Tom Steyer has asked US senator David Vitter to donate the campaign contributions he received from fossil fuel companies to charity....
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...
Global warming will make Australian heatwaves, like the one that hit the country in January, five times more likely to happen, according to new research. In...
The Indian government has been criticised for auctioning off new land for coal mining. According to The Hindu, Greenpeace India said that the 14 new coal...
Bill McKibben and his team at 350.org have done something that at one point it seemed inconceivable the environmental movement would ever do again. He has...
Climate change will continue to be taught in geography across key stages 1-3 in England, after education secretary Michael Gove scrapped plans to take it off...
Storebrand, a major Norwegian pension fund and life insurance firm, has divested from 19 fossil fuel companies to ensure “long-term stable returns” – as these stocks,...
American anthropologist Margaret Mead’s famous quote about a “small group of thoughtful, committed people” being the only thing that has ever changed the world could have...
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 last 10 years were the hottest since modern measurements began, according to the United Nations World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). A new report says the years...
As Russia partners with Shell to exploit natural resources in the Arctic, Greenpeace has claimed that oil companies from the country spill over 30m barrels a...