Extra funding for climate change mitigation and forestry programmes also part of oil-rich nation's radical programme

More than a hundred carbon capture and storage projects (CCS) must be built to avoid dangerous global warming, an international CCS group said this week, as fears were raised over whether UK projec

Imagine the British landscape with a third fewer trees. That is the chilling prediction being made this week by the Woodland Trust.

The government has today released its latest quarterly energy statistics, confirming that the UK's renewable energy sector is continuing to expand rapidly, while also fuelling concerns that high ga

Microscopic particles, among the most harmful forms of air pollution, are still found at dangerous levels in Europe, although law has cut some toxins from exhaust fumes and chimneys, a European Env

Report says 10% objective competes with food production and should be scrapped in effort to reduce food price spikes

Environmentalists warn judges that damaging precedent will be set if large-scale limestone mining is permitted in Ojnare forest

The potential cost of pesticide-related illnesses in sub-Saharan African between 2005 and 2020 could reach $90bn (£56bn), according to a UN report released on Wednesday highlighting the growing hea

King Solomon used them in the construction of the temple that would bear his name, the Phoenicians used them to build their merchant ships and the ancient Egyptians used their resin in the mummific

There are only 35 rhinos left in one wild population, and none in captivity. But conservationists hope they can increase the numbers of what is possibly the rarest large mammal on Earth