Retailers and restaurants urged to sign up to new cross-European guidelines amid growing concerns over cruelty in intensive meat production. New welfare standards for farmed
Home and kitchenware shops report growth in sales of portable mugs as government hints at a tax on disposable cups https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/11/uk-retailers-see-rise-in-sales-of-reusable-coffee-cups
According to the World Meteorological Organization, atmospheric CO2 levels have reached the highest level in 800,000 years – a gain that took just a few decades. The agency warns that
2017 saw the US scorched by record-breaking wildfires in California, record-breaking rainfall events like Hurricane Harvey in Houston (just one of the three most expensive
In its first act to shield California from the Trump administration’s repeal of regulations, the state’s water board has prepared its own rulesprotecting wetlands and other
How we grow food determines who can eat and who cannot—no matter how much we produce. People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they
New Report on Radioactive Tap Water Renews Concerns About Trump Nominee for Top Environmental Role Critics are challenging Trump’s “outrageous” and “alarming” move to renominate
Cheap renewables are mounting a serious challenge to nuclear power, which in 2017 has had a difficult year. Key projects have been abandoned, costs are
One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and