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Plans for third Heathrow runway delayed
BAA will not take the next step towards building a third runway at Heathrow until after the general election, it has said.
Study highlights financial rewards of protecting biodiversity
A new global study on the economics of ecosystem services and biodiversity loss suggests that governments can achieve more resilient economies and receive higher rates of return on their public investment strategies when...
Seafood ecolabels highlighted in WWF report
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) comes out on top in a new report commissioned by WWF that reveals poor performance among other assessed seafood ecolabelling schemes and calls for improvements across the board to str...
Quatar's biofuel development
Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) are to jointly carry out engineering, economic analysis and move into the development of sustainable bio jet fuel that will also look int...
Cities occupy 0.5% of the world's total land
A new global map of urban areas shows that cities occupy less than 0.5% of the world's total land area.
GHG targets falling short, says CDP
Greenhouse gas (GHG) targets set by many of Britain's largest companies are too weak to meet UK commitments on climate change, according to a new report from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). It says a lack of ambitio...
US car fleet declines
America's century-old love affair with the automobile may be coming to an end. The US fleet has apparently peaked and started to decline. In 2009, the 14 million cars scrapped exceeded the 10 million new cars sold, shrin...
Europe unites to build renewable energy 'supergrid'
It would connect turbines off the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany's vast arrays of solar panels, and join the power of waves crashing on to the Belgian and Danish coasts with the hydro-electric dams nest...
Nearly 300 new plant and fungi species discovered
Giant rainforest trees with exploding seed pods and minute fungi are among nearly 300 new species discovered by scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens in their 250th anniversary year.
Oil slick polluting Yellow river
Chinese environment officials are rushing to build three temporary barriers on the Yellow river after failing to contain an oil slick in a tributary of the country's second largest waterway.