Joseph Iddison examines the health consequences of having a high-carbon economy, as part of World Health Day. As the world continues to burn fossil fuels to...
Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, has warned that conflict and social unrest could escalate if the world fails to create a plan to...
Oil giant ExxonMobil has argued in a shareholder report that all sources of energy, including fossil fuels, are necessary and that it intends to burn all...
Leading sustainable investors have claimed the latest findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are further evidence for investment in sustainable companies and industries. The...
Rowan Williams, chairman of Christian Aid and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has blamed western lifestyles for climate change. He warned that this unsustainable way of...
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability is the latest report from the hundreds of experts at the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The second...
The campaign group Friends of the Earth has said the world must “stand up to the fossil fuels industry” ahead of the launch of a new...
A leaked report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests using extraction technology in order to take harmful carbon out of the atmosphere...
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has revealed that 2001-2010 was the warmest decade on record, while 13 of the 14 warmest years in recorded history have...
The chief scientific adviser to the government, Sir Mark Walport, has told MPs not to expect any benefits from a warmer climate, adding that the effects...
Companies extracting shale gas should pay for the carbon dioxide and methane emissions that derive from the fracking process, according to a parliamentary adviser and lecturer....
Western countries are outsourcing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to countries like China through the production of cheap goods that are exported to the US and Europe,...
The environmentalist Stanley Johnson’s latest book charts the United Nations Environment Programme’s progression over the four decades since its establishment in 1972 in captivating detail. On...
Professors from the University of California and Cornell University have called on academic institutions to listen to the students who were calling for the divestment of fossil...
New research published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Metrological Society has explained that the global warming ‘pause’ is a result of gaps in the...