Environment

Microplastics inside humans have been discovered – raising “grave concerns” about the health impact. A study by the Medical University of Vienna and Environment Agency Austria identified nine

A landmark ruling will allow fracking in the UK to go ahead tomorrow (13 October) after the High Court turned down an environmental campaigner’s claim to delay permission.

It’s one of the most contentious issues among environmental campaigners and isn’t going away anytime soon - but what is fracking? The complex engineering process for extracting shale

A one million euros (£880,000) bid to save an ancient forest in Germany from coal mining has been made by the search engine that plants trees - but

Laundry is the latest high street service to be given a technology-based makeover as dry cleaning vending machines aimed at commuters arrived in London. Some 200 machines are

A new climate report claiming the planet’s temperature will reach “catastrophic” levels by 2030 has prompted calls for greater government investment. Earth faces “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all

Changing the world is an objective many businesses claim to have, but Kymco and its chairman Allen Ko insist the Taiwanese electric vehicle manufacturer is one of the

Nestled in the foothills of southern Germany is the town of Heidelberg, which bears the distinction of being one of the country’s first to publicly commit to protecting

UK industry could take at least £540m off its bills by adopting clean energy tech, according to a study. The report by multinational energy firm Centrica said the