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Environmental groups in Germany, Finland and Denmark claim gas pipeline will devastate the Baltic Sea's already fragile marine ecosystem

Campaigners say the Environment Agency failed to heed warnings that the gas tanker Margaret Hill would be sent to ship-breaking yards in India

In the first of a new blog, young environmental pretender Sylvia Sunshine reports on her attempts to convert her office workplace to more sustainable practices

Before you start popping Lemsip Max, experiment with these herbal and spicy alternatives. Or there's always good old chicken soup...

Its short lifespan and greater potency means tackling methane emissions now could have a dramatic effect on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations reports Tom Levitt

Denying the science of climate change is ill-informed, but then so is misreading a report to claim that the entire carbon market is flawed...

Take away the subsidies from fossil fuels - and account for their carbon costs - and electricity from desert-based solar power will look like a no-brainer

Technology companies should be honest with customers about the origin of the metals in their products, says NGO Global Witness

An obsession with celebrity is costing us more than our free time - it has led to a culture in which individual endeavour is the only form of success

Far from downsizing, Government transport statistics reveal a trend towards multi-car households and bigger engines as well as more children being driven to school

An ambitious but at times over-simplistic look at how environmental, political and economic crises will redraw the world map

Golf club shaped urinal anyone? Digital fridge magnet? Nominate your contenders for Britain's most useless consumer product before 22nd February...

Oil giant should stop gas flaring, provide clean drinking water and clean up the legacy of oil spills, polluted land and waterways in Niger Delta

US president announces $8.3bn in loan guarantees for construction of first nuclear reactors in almost 30 years

Former Director of the Tyndall Centre and a Professor at the University of East Anglia, Andrew Watkinson explains why 'a few loose sentences' in the IPCC report shouldn't change people's opinion of the science