The government is cutting flood spending in real terms, just as the country is hit by even more damaging floods. Blaming the Environment Agency for the...
The Blue Mountains are one of Australia’s premier holiday destinations. Characterised by their striking natural wonders, dramatic scenery and inspiring stories, the local environment is brought...
Conservation charities have said they fear that the rhino poaching crisis will only get worse in 2014, after more than 1,000 were illegally killed in South...
Costa Rica is increasingly a popular destination for sustainable holidays, with its attractive and alluring scenery and a multitude of pioneering programmes that deliver exhilarating and...
Australian scientists are attaching minute sensors to honeybees to track their movements, in an effort to improve understanding of what is causing the potentially devastating loss...
The polar vortex, which has brought severe disruption and record low temperatures to the US in recent weeks, has gone on to warm areas of Scandinavia,...
Emperor penguins are being forced to climb up walls of ice 100 feet high to reach new breeding grounds, because warming temperatures are changing their Antarctic...
The Lake District will be the UK’s next nomination for world heritage status, the government has revealed. Culture minister Ed Vaizey said the national park can...
Scientists and engineers from Harvard University have developed a new type of battery that they say could revolutionise the way electricity is stored on the grid,...
Ben Goldsmith answers 20 questions on life, sustainability and everything. Goldsmith is an environmentalist, philanthropist and a partner at sustainable investment business WHEB, which he co-founded...
The conservation of historic sites, habitats and the local ecosystem has catapulted the Azores Islands, 850 miles west of Portugal, to the upper end of rankings...
The environment secretary Owen Paterson has provoked a furious response from campaigners, after he said that some of Britain’s ancient woodlands could be cut down to...
Not even the mysterious creatures that dwell in the furthest depths of the world’s oceans will be immune to rising global temperatures, a new study has...
Global temperature increases, caused by climate change, are likely to be nearer to the worst case scenario than has previously been suggested, a new study has...
An unusually warm summer in 2013 provided a much-needed boost to many of Britain’s native species, in what experts have called “one of the most remarkable...