Seven out of 10 European cities have no formal plans to adapt to climate change, and one in three have no plans to reduce greenhouse gas...
A particularly blustery December in the UK proved to be beneficial for wind power, as a surge in energy generation saw a number of records broken,...
One in three people worldwide are now overweight, with the number of obese individuals rising to nearly a billion in developing countries that are experiencing increasing...
Environment secretary Owen Paterson has said that the UK is set to face further “exceptional weather”, with gale-force winds and heavy rain set to continue. Following...
Some power companies “let their customers down” while dealing with Christmas power failures, the environment secretary Owen Paterson has said. Meanwhile, forecasters have warned that more...
The British Serious Fraud Office (SFO) expects to bring more charges against those implicated in the Libor scandal in 2014. The head of the SFO has...
Amid concerns of an ageing population China has further eased its one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children if one parent is an only child,...
Billionaires’ collective fortunes have doubled worldwide since 2009, with Asia seeing a 13% increase in the number of the super rich, while Europe experienced a decline....
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...
The share of renewable energy among EU member states rose to 14.4% in 2012, compared to 13.1% in 2011, according to the European renewable energy barometer...
The amount of wrapping paper thrown away at Christmas in the UK alone would stretch to the moon, according to the government-backed Waste and Resource Action...
After recent household energy bill hikes, spending on gas and electricity continues to be the most acute source of pressure on consumer budgets, according to a...
HM Revenue and Customs has “lost its nerve” in the fight against tax avoidance by multinational corporations and wealthy individuals, a committee of MPs has claimed....
Britain’s banking system remains uncompetitive and risky because financial markets deem that the largest banks are too big to fail, according to the new economics foundation...
New research has shown that water from US fracking sites had levels of chemicals able to influence estrogens and androgens hormones. The study, published on Endocrinology,...