The United Nations has launched a new programme to develop technologies that help tackle climate change, following an agreement made during climate change negotiations in Doha...
Scandinavia has managed to reduce its carbon emissions and achieve considerable economic growth. As a result, countries like Denmark and Sweden have become some of the...
Increasing temperatures and humidity are expected to double labour capacity losses by 2050, according to research by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in New Jersey. Productivity...
Joe Keefe, president and CEO of US firm PAX World Management, has written a piece for the Huffington Post about the importance of sustainable investment in...
Environmental group Global Green’s annual pre-Oscar party took place on Wednesday with over 1,500 guests – from celebrities, eco-luminaries, business and political leaders and leading environmentalists...
Newsflash: science is complicated. A lot of jobs, being a politician or columnist for example, can be mastered with very little hard work. This is not...
Dennis Hedke, Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives in the US, has proposed a bill to the country’s energy and environment committee that discourages...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has declared that an international response to challenges in the Arctic is “urgently needed” in its review of the past...
Environmental group Greenpeace is calling on individuals to tweet MPs, telling them to support an amendment to the energy bill that would see a 2030 electricity...
Thousands of people rallied in Washington over the weekend, asking Barack Obama to move “forward on climate” and to stop work on the Keystone XL oil...
A new study by the WWF has said that a scenario in which the EU was 100% renewably-powered by 2050 was feasible if member states co-operated...
Ed Davey has issued a rallying cry for politicians, scientists and society to work together in coming up with solutions to fight climate change, calling those...
On the night of January 31 1953, a high spring tide and a cyclonic windstorm created a storm surge that raised sea levels by 5.6 metres...
The snow was bad. Now millions of gallons of meltwater will add to the heavy rain falling on waterlogged ground during a spring tide. Our weather-battered...
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) mission is displayed across many walls in Davos, Switzerland: “Committed to improving the state of the world”. Emma Websdale rounds up...