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Running could be leaving a much greater carbon footprint than you think, a US study of a leading, Chinese-made trainer has found.
Tesco is joining the fight against global food waste, even if meeting this objective means selling less, the multinational supermarket chain said.
A Scottish start-up, Linknode has created 3-D software that it claims could revolutionise the wind farm development industry and take the politics out of the equation.
Investing in new renewable power generation, rather than a "dash for gas", will be the lower-cost option for keeping the lights on while cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the government's climate change watchdog has said.
Environmental group Friends of Earth has slammed a newly published report highlighting the economic benefits of shale gas as "a complete distorted view of the shale gas development in Britain."
Ed Davey said today that Scotland could risk missing out on renewable energy investment worth billions of pounds if it chooses "to go it alone".
An unprecedented stocktake of UK wildlife has revealed that most species are struggling and that one in three have halved in number in the past half century.
The Government has come under criticism from an influential committee of MPs for not setting clear outcomes for the Green Deal and Energy Companies Obligation (ECO), its flagship policies to insulate millions of homes and businesses across Britain.
Organisers of this year’s Shambala Music Festival are looking to tackle the problem of plastic waste by ending the on-site provision of plastic bottles and plastic cups.
Beverage giant Coca-Cola has taken the next step in its pursuit of reducing its carbon footprint of the drinks in our hands by a third by 2020 with the launch of a new study examining why households recycle less than they say they do.
Grants to help households invest in renewable heat technologies are to double, the Government has announced.
Awareness of the Green Deal is rising among the public, but many say they would be unhappy about taking on a Green Deal finance plan when they bought a property, a new survey by Which? reveals.
The number of people employed by the government to work on the UK's adaptation to the effects of climate change has been cut from 38 officials to only six, in a sign of how the response to global warming has been rapidly downgraded within Whitehall under the Coalition.
The recession and a slump in construction sent profits falling at leading sustainable waste management company Shanks Group Plc, years end results show.
A survey of thousands of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals has found 97.1 per cent agreed that climate change is caused by human activity.
