The European parliament has rejected a plan to make polluters pay more as part of a carbon trading scheme designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Three...
A lot of people have fallen into believing that climate change is an issue raised in the very latter part of the 20th century. In fact,...
A study by Norwegian Scientists has found that electric cars may not always play up to their great ‘environmental’ reputation. Electrical Vehicles (EVs) have become increasingly...
Implementation and impact of policy related to climate change has significantly increased over the last decade according to a new study by the Climate Policy Initiative....
A top UN official, José Graziano da Silva, has stressed how the fight against hunger and climate change will depend on the success of sustainable development of...
This is the second cartoon in our B******* as usual… series, in which we share work by Manchester-based cartoonist Polyp. For more information on Polyp, see...
The huge US drought in 2012 wasn’t a result of human-induced climate change, according to scientists. Last summer was the driest in recorded history in the...
Climate-scientists and criminologists make strange bedfellows. And things could get stranger still if getting tough on crime means getting tough on the causes of climate-change, writes...
Seventy-five Olympic medallists have written a letter to Barack Obama, urging him to help tackle climate change for the sake of winter sports. The appeal to the...
Chris Mullin was the Labour MP for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010. While in parliament, he served on a number of committees, including a distinguished...
Leading economists are failing to account for ecosystem services such as climate change, water scarcity and pollinator fall off, because of the inherent short-term nature of...
Margaret Thatcher, who died yesterday aged 87, was a deeply divisive leader, but she was certainly a leader. One area of that leadership was in climate...
More than 50 NGOs from all over the world have signed a letter asking World Bank president Jim Yong Kim to take urgent action against climate change....
This afternoon, the horse racing calendar’s most popular event, the Grand National, takes places at Aintree. While millions use it as an opportunity to have their...
Danish author Bjorn Lomborg (degree in political science) gave a typically spirited defence of global warming in last weekend’s Sunday Times, describing it as a “joy“. He’s...