It is now a well-established fact that there is a link between human meat consumption and climate change, thanks to the CO2 and methane emissions that come from raising and transporting cattle...
It's time to end restrictive single family zoning and intensify an underdeveloped, underutilized urban resource.
Times are tough in the UK, not knowing whether it is in or out of Europe and the...
Gifts have been opened, cookies have been eaten, Christmas has come and gone. Still, the last vestige of holiday festivities remains: the slowly decaying Christmas tree husk in your living room.
Even as...
One in six pints of milk produced around the world is lost or wasted, according to research conducted at Edinburgh University for the Guardian.
Sixteen percent of dairy products – 116m tonnes –...
Summers in the UK could be up to 5.4°C warmer by 2070, according to new data published by the Met Office.
It warns of significant temperature rises in the coming decades in its...
Merlin Entertainments, the UK operator of top tourist draws such as Legoland, Madame Tussauds, and Sea Life, has pledged to phase out plastic straws at all of its owned attractions worldwide by...
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has launched a new eco-shopping bag that helps prevent waste and reduce poverty among people living in Haiti and the Philippines.
Launching in stores on 6th November, the re-usable...
Tiny pieces of plastic measuring less than five millimeters in length—or roughly the size of a sesame seed—have become a nearly ubiquitous presence in our world. Scientists have found the particles, better...
Exclusive: Watchdog examining claims plastic waste is not being recycled but left to leak into rivers and oceans.
The plastics recycling industry is facing an investigation into suspected widespread abuse and fraud within...
An island in Scotland is to be powered by electricity for 24 hours for the first time ever.
Fair Isle, located between Orkney and Shetland and currently home to 55 people, has only...
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...
The number of dirty diesel vehicles pumping out toxic emissions on Europe’s streets is still rising three years after the Dieselgate scandal began, according to a new report. More than 7m such...
The UK’s wind power capacity has passed the 20GW milestone.
The clean energy technology now generates enough electricity across the country to power more than 14 million homes and cut carbon emissions by...
Scientists have found the first evidence that particles of air pollution travel through pregnant women’s lungs and lodge in their placentas.
Toxic air is already strongly linked to harm in foetuses but how...
Clean cars, vans and taxis in the UK could be given green number plates under new government plans to promote awareness of ultra-low emission vehicles.
It is seeking views on providing the “badge...
London Fashion Week (LFW) will be the first event of its kind to go fur free. The British Fashion Council just announced that all of the designers at the event this month...
