An international conference in Thailand is attempting to implement an overarching ivory ban, in order to cut back on the poaching of rhinos and elephants known...
Ecosystem services are crucial to our survival; we literally can’t afford to lose them. Increasing investment in and protection of these hugely important environmental assets can...
Four garden centre retailers that own 60 stores across the UK have pledged to remove a harmful stream of insecticide that has been linked to the...
The news this week that Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has signalled an end to its deforestation activities has been welcomed by environmental and campaigning organisations alike....
The European Commission has urged EU countries to ban the use of the neonicotinoid insecticides that are said to have driven a decline in the bee...
Homebase has become the third major hardware retailer to phase out the sale of neonicotinoid insecticides that have been linked to the fall in bee numbers....
Thousands of campaigners have called for the government to take action over dwindling bee numbers, urging David Cameron to adopt a national bee action plan. Environmental...
The European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) has picked out a number of dangerous risks to bees posed by a trio of common insecticides. Clothianidin, imidacloprid and...
Yesterday we wrote about the wisdom of tourism in the polar regions. In response, we were pointed to a Telegraph article from 2009, in which the...
New Zealand’s prime minister is set to travel to Antarctica this week; following the lead of an around 50,000 people who venture to the continent for...
The Arctic is found to have surpassed a number of records in 2012, including for sea ice loss, snow cover and Greenland ice sheet melting, according...
Plans to build a £30 billion tidal barrage across the river Severn have been put into doubt, after a new report claimed that a mixture of...
Oil giant BP has been told to pay $4.5 billion (£2.8 billion) in relation to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 – the largest criminal...