Environment

Residents fetch water from a well contaminated by oil pollution at Ogale Town, Eleme in southeast Nigeria, on June 13, 2015. Afp Contributor |...

Shell said last month that windfall taxes imposed by the European Union and U.K. following the surge in profits would cost the group about...

Greenwashing should be seen as a positive sign that companies are moving in the right direction, according to the founder of British energy firm...

In the race to find cleaner fuels, the heavy duty transportation sector is woefully behind because batteries don’t have enough juice to power trucks...

Alaskan oil extraction site. Lowell Georgia | Getty Images President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday recommended a scaled-down version of a major oil drilling...

If you want a quick outlook on whether U.S. gas prices are likely to return to pre-Covid levels, a good place to start is...

The logo of the OPEC is pictured at the OPEC headquarters on October 4, 2022. Joe Klamar | Afp | Getty Images A technical...

Police have been alerted amid claims that firefighters at Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service allegedly photographed dead bodies of women at the scene of...

Hundreds of thousands of workers are going on strike, in what will be the biggest day of industrial action for more than a decade....

A four-year-old girl has died after a dog attack in Milton Keynes. Police officers were called by the ambulance service shortly after 5pm on...

Jeremy Hunt has faced a twin assault on tax cuts and fuel duty from Tory MPs ahead of his Budget in six weeks’ time....

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund was established in the 1990s to invest the surplus revenues of the country’s oil and gas sector. Bloomberg | Bloomberg...

One in 10 children have viewed pornography by the time they are nine years old, research by the children’s commissioner for England has found....

When considering national defence budgets, what matters is not simply how much is spent but what that money actually buys in terms of armed...

A woman who disappeared while walking her dog has “two little girls that need their mummy home”, her boyfriend has said, as a major...

Britain’s economic reputation has been dealt a further blow after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast that this year the UK economy will fare...

The government is partially to blame for the Grenfell Tower tragedy because of “faulty and ambiguous” government guidance, Michael Gove has said. The housing...

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 15-year-old girl died in a stabbing in Northumberland. Police said they were...

British airline Flybe has ceased trading and all scheduled flights have been cancelled. In a statement posted on its Twitter account Flybe said: “We...