Conservation charity RSPB has chosen to power its sites across the UK with clean electricity in an effort to cut its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. RSPB’s...
The St Jude’s Day storm coverage seemed a little apocalyptic. One listener to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, frustrated at the time devoted to the storm,...
Temperatures in the Canadian Arctic are at the highest they’ve been for at least 44,000 years, and possibly even 120,000 years, according to a new study....
The UK government has announced plans to make the UK “a global centre of expertise” in opening up the Arctic to exploitation by oil and gas...
Perhaps the bitterest irony to emerge from the issue of global warming is that the melted ice in the polar regions allows for new fossil fuel...
Our oceans are littered with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of discarded fishing nets, posing a major threat to sea life everywhere. In an effort to...
A US appeals court has ordered a review of some of the fines imposed upon oil giant BP over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill,...
Despite Arctic sea ice coverage improving this year when compared to 2012, scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in the US have...
Whaling: rugged Scandinavian men with spears and harpoons chasing poor, defenceless whales out of their natural habitat, before slaughtering and eating them. It’s fair to say...
Sea ice cover in the Arctic has improved since 2012, when record low levels were noted, but preliminary statistics from the National Snow and Ice Data...
“The Faroe Islands: is that near Egypt?” I smiled as I stood in the queue at Gatwick, while the woman I was on the phone with...
It makes an unlikely poster boy, but the blobfish, a rarely seen species of deep-sea fish, has been voted the ‘world’s ugliest animal’ and adopted as...
Glaciers in the East Antarctic are more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, according to a new study. Scientists had believed that glaciers along the...
Yann Arthus-Bertand’s Home takes viewers on a journey above 50 countries in order to provide a new way of looking at the world and the impact...
The Taiwanese government has raised concerns over a long-running radioactive leak, amid controversy over a similar incident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Taiwan Power...