Reading the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) feels rather as Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors must have felt in the 1993...
TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough has warned on the Earth’s increasing population, saying that people should be convinced to have fewer children. Attenborough told the Radio...
Anglia Ruskin University is to undertake an ambitious new project that plans to map the world’s resources. It is hoped that the Global Resource Observatory (GRO),...
Investment into North Sea oil and gas will reach record levels in 2013, with £13.5 billion pumped into an industry whose production has dropped off significantly...
Today is a momentous day for the Earth. As of August 20, countries have exceeded their resource budget for the year. The world is now in a state of ecological deficit....
In a recently published Arctic strategy, Barack Obama’s administration set out its vision for the vulnerable northern region. Nicky Stubbs examines what it might mean for...
There is “strong causal evidence” that variations in temperatures and climate patterns link to human conflict, according to a new study. The paper, Quantifying the Influence of...
Deep sea mining, the relatively new activity that looks to extract resources such as gold, cooper and zinc from ocean beds, has been criticised by campaigners...
Russia has entered the top five of the world’s biggest economies, with its $3.4 trillion GDP leaving fellow European nations behind, according to the World Bank....
The government must take resource risk seriously in order to create a sustainable manufacturing economy that is focused on the long-term, according to a new report...
A team from Anglia Ruskin University have partnered with other institutions across Europe to improve water efficiency in the most ‘stressed’ regions. The university has been...
Solar power will be one of the main energy sources in the Gulf by 2017, as the region capitalises on its plentiful renewable resources. Organisers of...
Barack Obama has called for a new model for African countries to improve their self-sufficiency in the energy and food production sectors, and for the continent...
This is the fourth cartoon in our B******* as usual… series, in which we share work by Manchester-based cartoonist Polyp. For more information on Polyp, see...
Ben Goldsmith, partner at sustainable investment group WHEB, writes why green trumps grey when it comes to infrastructure. Climate chaos, natural resource scarcity, demographic changes and...