Environment

the rise in global temperatures means previously year-round frozen soil is melting faster than thought

Abbie Sellers, 26, opened the shop which she claims can save over 10,000 pieces of plastic being used each week

A shocking new study has discovered that over 14 million people, 4.5 million of them children, and living in poverty. The investigation also discovered that 12% of the total UK population is in “persistent” poverty, having spent all or most of the last four years below the breadline. The statistics, by Social Metrics Commission, have been gathered from a new measure to calculate social disadvantage. The commission includes experts from academia, and from organisations such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation,...

The founder of environmental campaign group Blue Planet Society believes social media including Instagram and Facebook is fuelling the problem

For the first time scientists have found the harmful tiny particles of carbon, typically created from burning fossil fuel, in placentas

Wales, Devon and Cornwall look set to get most heavily shafted by the 80mph gales.

Post mortems on almost 1,000 dead turtles found more than half of babies - and about a quarter of juveniles - had swallowed plastic, compared to just one in seven adults

They can sometimes seem like being in a different country and now geologists believe that Devon and Cornwall were once part of France. Their theory comes after studying the chemical profile of the west country counties' rocks which have more in common with France than the rest of the UK. For centuries scientists thought England, Wales and Scotland were created by the merger of two land masses, Avalonia and Laurentia more than 400 million years ago. Then the continents on...

Replacements chemicals were also leaching out damaging the sperm and eggs of lab mice too