Britain's Marks & Spencer joins a wave of supermarkets and manufacturers pledging to reduce waste in response to rising public outcry over environmental damage.
Britain currently wastes approximately 10 million tonnes of fruit, vegetables and other foods every year, which are worth about 20 billion pounds. Here's what its first food waste champion plans to do to stop this.
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Advances in global public health in the twenty-first century will depend not only on ground-breaking research and community work, but also on winning the online information battle.
Alison Greenwood-Nguyen and Robin J.Roth –
Plastic pollution in developing Asia is often in the spotlight, but the conversation largely ignores the role of Western countries in the plastic waste trade.
Each year more than 300 tonnes of processed gold are dumped in landfills. What if we could mine landfills for gold and other precious metals, ask researchers from Keele University.
India's worst flood in recent times is a clear warning about the dangers of rampant and thoughtless human development, writes Azim Premji University's Harini Nagendra. How are communities overcoming mistakes made in development and preparing for a future of extreme weather?
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More than 200 climate science and policy researchers, economists and social scientists have descended this week on Keble College in Oxford for a two-day conference entitled “1.5 degrees: Meeting the challenges of the Paris Agreement.”
With the tagline "Taking the Pulse of the Planet", State of the World's Birds is a major global assessment that uses bird species to measure the health of our ecosystems ...
CLEAR Info is a project that aims to demonstrate a system for integrating company and site level environmental data into decision making. Part of this involves using operational risk appraisal ...
Here is Innovation Forum's new management briefing on what companies can do to minimise their deforestation footprints, work with NGOs and manage legal and reputational risk.
By 2018 the world pure Smart Grid business will need to be running at $155 billion, some 50 per cent larger than the current annual expenditure for all electrical transmission ...
