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Jack Harries was at protest by Extinction Rebellion aiming to bring London to a standstill

Opponents say revised definition of fracking will allow energy firms to bypass planning rules

Workers on Beatrice project in Scotland include unregulated migrants on under £5 an hour

Hundreds of millions of pounds must be spent to achieve 80% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, report shows

A national environment-friendly infrastructure plan is urgently required to restore the UK to social and economic health, says a group of MPs, academics and green campaigners

London mayor challenges move to axe tariffs and discounts for householders installing solar PV

Isle of Lewis residents protest against new windfarm plan to raise turbine height to 200m

From voting to healthcare, music to energy production, blockchain may just change the way we run our livesA blockchain allows the authentication of transactions without them needing to be administered or guaranteed by a central...

New search for communities willing to host underground site for thousands of years

Jenny Jones says the UK must respond proactively to news that China has banned imports of millions of tons of plastic wasteThis could be the year we start burning more of our waste than recycling it (China’s plastic waste...

As advances in gene editing, energy and AI gain momentum, Jim Al-Khalili predicts their impact on our future

If this year’s $120m juicing flop gave you reason to doubt in human ingenuity, take heart in these incredible inventions to come: from an artificial kidney to a breast pump you might actually want to use

It was a tale of two years – the best of times and the worst of times. But not everything went wrong – from Mata’s 1% to orangutans, we look at the good

Plan to make landlords improve draughtiest homes and boost energy efficiency for hundreds of thousands of tenants lay in tatters, say critics

Sarah-Jayne Clifton says countries such as Antigua and Barbuda need debt cancellation, and assistance to help them rebuild should be grants, not loans, while Ian Tysh tears into Theresa May’s domestic climate change policiesFor...