1+ hour, 13+ min ago  (396+ words) THE Government has signed up to a legal target to cut the UK's planet-heating emissions by 87% by 2040, Ed Miliband has announced. The commitment will see heat pumps, electric cars and renewables rolled out across the country which the Government says…...

2+ hour, 33+ min ago  (352+ words) DEVELOPER SAYS BENEFIT TO LOCALS OUTWEIGHS "IDENTIFIED FLOOD RISK" A DEVELOPER which scrapped plans to build flats in a flood zone has got the scheme back on the table, and it is now set for approval. In early March, Mc…...

6+ hour, 51+ min ago  (359+ words) Climate change, waste and biodiversity loss are collective problems embedded in the structure of entire industries. Solving them requires competitors to act together. Importantly, while these public environmental benefits cannot be captured by any single firm, companies can still internalise…...

10+ hour, 31+ min ago  (355+ words) TRADITIONAL sustainability strategies such as green differentiation, eco-efficiency, cost savings, often deliver incremental progress. Many of the environmental challenges businesses now face cannot be solved at scale by any single firm. Climate change, waste and biodiversity loss are collective problems…...

11+ hour, 23+ min ago  (529+ words) MALARIA is caused by a very complex organism (parasite) which has been found in mosquitoes trapped in resin dating back 30 million years. -PROFESSOR JP DEAN GOLDRING MALARIA is caused by a very complex organism (parasite) which has been found in…...

16+ hour, 38+ min ago  (350+ words) A portion of one of the most ambitious ocean monitoring networks ever built will go dark this month when scientists board a research vessel and motor off the Oregon coast to pull a research buoy from deep out of the…...

17+ hour, 36+ min ago  (384+ words) ENGLAND and Wales had their warmest spring on record this year, thanks partly to the "exceptionally early" heatwave that hit the UK at the end of May. -By IAN JONES, PA Officials said a meeting of the National Drought Group…...

2+ day, 14+ min ago  (448+ words) The rains still haven't come here, where local farmers fear the lack of water could ruin the subsistence crops they need to survive. Cunen is a hard-to-reach mountainous region where the majority of the approximately 47 000 residents are poor, and rely…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (472+ words) Driving through this part of Northumberland you might look around at the tall Sitka spruce and imagine yourself in Canada's evergreen forests or perhaps, on a sunny day, in northern California. Instead you are in England's largest forest, Kielder, often…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (559+ words) Chief sustainability officer says rising oil prices hit consumers where it hurts People will be looking for more alternative energy sources in the future, as the Iran war shows how countries and companies are over-reliant on oil, said OCBC group…...