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Is it healthy? Is it organic? Is it fairly traded? How far has it travelled? At times, making informed choices can feel like a full-time job. Here is a pocket guide to buying food from the new book Stuffed

Sceptic or realist? Bjorn Lomborg speaks to Tom Levitt about why his ideas on tackling climate change will actually help to solve the crisis

Ayrshire Power starts planning process for power station which would be UK's first to use carbon capture and storage

A victory for Teesside residents could have legal implications that help others fighting to preserve green spaces in their communities

Australian meteorologists have published an up-to-date summary of how rainfall and temperature levels have changed across the country over the past 100 years

Chevron has recently announced a mammoth solar energy project known as Project Brightfield. Good news, eh? But what if they want to use the green power to pump more oil...

The new feed-in tariffs are nothing if not controversial, but they also run the risk of conflicting with other, international, climate change policies

Your soil will love you for it, wildlife thrives in it and weeds are deterred by it. Here is the what, why and how of green manure

Akashi is a grassroots campaign that gives a bigger voice to black and minority ethnic groups on climate change issues

England becoming a country of 'beauty spots rather than beauty', and must act fast to address declining biodiversity, says the government’s environment watchdog

Study says neither China, India or US likely to accept legally binding cuts and that new approach is needed on reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Lionel Badal was working on his undergraduate dissertation when he suddenly found himself privy to information that he knew must be made public

Ecologist investigation reveals three-quarters of London councils giving out wrong advice on the safe disposal of mercury-containing compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs)

The editor of the influential Worldwatch 'State of the World' report on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability

An Ecologist investigation reveals that three quarters of London Boroughs are advising their residents to simply throw compact fluorescent lightbulbs in their general waste, despite the hazard posed by their mercury content