Citizens Advice Scotland have called for a consumer helpline to be set up to help solve the problem
It says many consumers are in desperate need of advice and support
Electric heating...
They will monitor and check compliance of vehicles with the type-approval regulation and the new emissions limits.
Two additional facilities that will carry out vehicle emissions testing before they are rolled out on the roads...
A Dutch appeals court upheld a historic climate liability ruling Tuesday, affirming that the Dutch government has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, The Associated...
Research in Taiwan has show a link between very high levels of air pollution and oral cancer.
High levels of air pollution are linked to an increased risk of mouth cancer, new research...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its highly anticipated report Sunday on what needs to be done to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The answer: social and technological change...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics to a duo for their work on how the world can achieve sustainable growth.
The prize was divided equally to...
The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly...
One way of mitigating the adverse effects of man-made climate change is to plant trees. The more trees there are, the more CO2 they absorb from the atmosphere, thereby alleviating the greenhouse...
In children’s playrooms and family living room floors around the world, small plastic blocks are a staple. In today’s world, Lego is synonymous with plastic. For this reason, the recent news from...
Ah, those lithium batteries in our phones. They tend to go flat just when we need them most. Then again, that’s Murphy’s law for you, isn’t it? Encouragingly, lithium-ion batteries are getting...
The Environmental Audit Committee has written to 10 retailers to find out how they are mitigating them
They include Marks and Spencer, Primark, Next, Arcadia, Asda, TK Maxx and Homesense, Tesco, JD...
Chernobyl in Ukraine is infamous for having been the site of a nuclear disaster in what was then the Soviet Union. For the past 30-odd years, since the catastrophic meltdown at the...
Green or blue LEDS could replace energy-intensive incandescent lighting used to lure fish towards bait.
Forget just cutting your domestic electricity bill with LEDs – now you can use energy efficient lighting to catch...
The firm expects the majority of its cars to be hybrids by this time.
Mazda commits to 5% of its vehicles going electric by 2030.
The car manufacturer says all of the vehicles it sells will...
One Briton and two American scientists bag the prestigious award for their work that is meant to create cleaner fuels and treat diseases.
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded by the Royal...
Christian Aid says climate change means coastal cities are becoming more vulnerable to flooding.
London is among the cities sinking into the oceans as climate change raises global sea levels.
That’s according to a new report from...
