Environment

The City of London Corporation’s charitable funder, City Bridge Trust, has awarded grants totalling £4.1 million to 51 charities tackling inequality and disadvantage across London in its latest round of funding. The awards ranged from funding for programmes supporting survivors of sexual abuse, therapy sessions for children with life limiting conditions and community activities to improve the health and wellbeing of older people. Grants include: £138,300 to the WISH Centre in Harrow. The money will go towards expanding the charity’s...

The sea creatures - thought to number up to 1000,000 - were discovered on the beach at Mablethorpe, Lincs..

A study suggests stagnant wages, austerity, reliance on food banks, poor diets and health inequalities are to blame for England's poorest people dying nearly 10 years younger than the rich

The world's most expensive mushrooms could be wiped out by 2050 - as they cannot last without water for more than three weeks

Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it.

As emissions increase, society faces a much larger threat from climate change than previously thought

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Thousands of people do not have access to basic toilet facilities in their workplace in the UK, according to a shocking report by Unite. The Union uncovered evidence of staff at branches of high-street banks being required to urinate in buckets, and construction sites failing to provide any female toilets for their staff. Bus drivers had been denied toilet breaks for up to five hours, and workers in call centres for big financial institutions were told to log in and...

It would give men between one and two years extra and women six months to a year in Copenhagen, a population of over 616,000 people similar in size to Bristol or Belfast