The Chinese capital has decided to put an end to further expansion of resource-intensive and polluting industries in the city, in an effort to improve the...
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Spain has called for the government to create a sanctuary for whales and dolphins and to stop oil...
India’s Rural Development Ministry, in an attempt to both improve air quality and stimulate the job market, will potentially employ up to 300,000 youths to plant...
West Sussex County Council has turned down an application from oil and gas exploration firm Celtique Energie to drill near the Wisborough Green conservation area. After...
The state of California is poised to shut down 11 oil and gas waste injection sites as fears rise concerning the injection of polluted waste water...
Replacing oil and coal in the energy mix with shale and natural gas will not help efforts to curb climate change, according to a new study....
The UK and Germany top the list of the biggest coal polluters in the EU, with nine of the dirtiest power plants each, according to research....
The mayor of London has taken to Twitter to dispute a study, conducted by Kings College London, that found Oxford Street has the world’s worst pollution...
US president Barack Obama has announced initiatives aimed at sustaining the nation’s infrastructure, and in particular its energy supply and coastal and flood protection, as well...
Mitigating the impact of the dredging project in Abbott Point on the Australian Great Barrier Reef could be much more expensive than what the project developer...
Environmental group WWF has criticised the National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios report because it “underestimates threat of coal”. The organisation states that the report assumes that...
In an effort to reduce pollution and encourage sustainable transport, China has exempted owners of new electric and hybrid vehicles from purchase tax until the end...
Projects that help rebuild trust in politics are “not worth embarking on” unless they include China, according to a leading climate change diplomat. John Ashton, who...
The US government has intervened in an ongoing court battle between the coal industry and the environmental campaign group WildEarth Guardians, which is challenging unsustainable mining...
Plastic pollutants afflict all of the world’s oceans, but a new study has found that the quantity of floating waste around the world is lower than...