Environment

How to cut down energy bills while still meeting targets on climate change? That’s the challenge for a new independent review tasked with examining ways of controlling costs.

It is one of the world’s remotest places – and one of the world’s biggest dustbins. The tiny Henderson Island in the South Pacific has become inundated with millions of pieces of discarded plastic. Marine scientists say it’s evidence of the “grotesque” extent of pollution.

t’s an ambitious target and one that the government is on course to miss. The UK is currently committed to getting 15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, under the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive.

Leaving aside the nature of Britain after Brexit what about Britain’s nature?

Donald Trump’s new head of the Environmental Protection Agency has said that he doesn’t agree that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.

The Conservatives made a campaign promise to leave Britain’s nature in a better state than they found it.

The new head of America’s environmental protection agency has told conservative activists he won’t go through with earlier threats to scrap the EPA altogether. But Scott Prewitt said the task of rolling back key climate and clean water regulations could start as soon as next week. And he’s not the only climate change sceptic with…

The three-bedroom family home near Bridgend – which took just 16 weeks to construct – can export more power to the grid than it consumes, experts say.

Heathrow flights will be delayed today after 12 activists cut through a perimeter fence and chained themselves together on the northern runway to protest against possible expansion of the airport.

Seven climate change protesters are arrested following a day of wide-spread demonstrations against government fossil fuel policy.

Living next to a busy road could increase the risk of obesity, according to research into the effects of noise pollution on waistlines.

At least 13 people died when a freak tornado hit the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Acuna, while in the southern United States 12 people were listed as missing in Texas after heavy storms and floods.

Work on the Rampion wind farm, which should produce enough energy for 300,000 homes will start early next year off the coast of Sussex.