Mark Zuckerberg has topped a list ranking the biggest charitable donations by individual US philanthropists in 2013, after handing $990m (£596m) worth of Facebook shares to...
Alternative finance intermediaries, including sources such as crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and invoice trading, raised almost £1 billion in 2013, market data has revealed. According to a...
A conservation group has warned that exfoliating skin products that have microbeads such as peels, scrubs and washes in them can add plastic to our seas...
The Met Office has issued further weather warnings, anticipating more heavy rain and wind on Monday, as residents and authorities across the south of England continue...
Customers affected by the storm that ravaged the UK over the festive period are to receive payments as a “gesture of good will”. Power companies were...
Strong winds and heavy rain have returned to the UK, causing flooding and travel disruption for the second time in a week. The Met Office has...
Travellers and commuters will face an average 2.8% increase when they travel by train in 2014, National Rail has confirmed. Most of the increases will take...
A highway project in Iceland has been halted in the supreme court after environmentalists and elf advocates teamed up to protest against the project. The project...
Ninety-seven per cent of financial services firms believe not enough has been done to prevent a future financial crash, a report has revealed. The study, which...
The government has approved plans for a 1.3km quay, along with facilities for building and assembling offshore wind turbines, in North Killingholme, North Lincolnshire. Work on...
A new study has found that more than half of corporations are emitting unsustainable levels of CO2 when the figures are assessed from a science perspective....
British firm BP has announced it has made a “significant oil discovery” at the Gila prospect in the Gulf of Mexico – its first since US...
The moderators of Reddit’s online science forum /r/science, which provides a space for debate between scientists and non-scientists alike, have warned that climate change deniers are...
A number of environmental organisations have appealed to the European Court of Justice to defend the ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, imposed by the European Union because...
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has written to MPs, urging them against cuts to the agriculture industry’s subsidies. The plans, which will see financial support for...