Many will be baffled that such an agreement even exists. But the UK has become the latest country to announce its withdrawal from the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which allows fossil ...

Spring is nature’s way of saying: ‘Let’s party!’” said the late actor Robin Williams, and the celebrations are truly kicking off where I live. The trees are coming into leaf again, we’re back to ...

More than 30 years since the launch of Fairtrade in the UK, international smallholders continue to face livelihood-threatening challenges. Here’s why its proponents argue the certification will endure ...

China’s embrace of renewables has tipped its emissions into reverse, with some experts predicting the country’s CO2 output could be entering a period of structural decline. According to analysis by ...

Coal. It powered the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain. So it was hugely symbolic this week when the UK became the first advanced economy to quit the black stuff. Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the ...

Sweden has long pioneered policies that benefit families. Now the Scandinavian nation has gone even further by introducing paid parental leave for grandparents. Under a new law, a parent couple will ...

A group of Swiss women won a landmark climate justice battle in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) this week, in a ruling that presses governments across Europe to step up over the climate ...

A group of Muslim women from east London have found kinship, fitness, spirituality and lots of fun through Nordic walking in the woods The rain is lashing down hard over Thames Chase Forest Centre on ...

In the 1980s, Finnish psychiatrists developed an approach to treating mental illness that dramatically improved outcomes for those in crisis. As a five-year study of ‘open dialogue’ nears completion ...

Trees offered a welcome ‘climate surprise’, AI boosted cancer detection rates, and a bird fluttered back from the brink, plus more good news AI is boosting cancer detection rates in England An ...

The world got more than 30% of its electricity from renewables last year, a milestone that will usher in “a new era of falling power sector emissions”. That’s according to analysis by the climate ...

A city once dubbed “the dirtiest in the US” has been designated North America’s first national park city. Half a century ago, Chattanooga in Tennessee was infamous for its acrid air and toxic water, ...