The creation of "mini-jobs", which allow people to take on work without paying tax or national insurance, is being considered by the British treasury.
The convenience of using plastic leaves our world smothered in rubbish.
Climate scientists are on the defensive after damaging emails were leaked in a bid to discredit evidence of global warming ahead of the Durban summit.
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The continuing struggle of cotton growers in the poorest region of the world comes under the spotlight.
UN official spells out how lobby groups stall and water down progressive regulation.
The mission to catalogue threats to our world produced more gloomy news last week: that more than one in five plants is at risk of extinction.
Vehicles and animals are on a collision course in Tanzania.
More than one in four of all flowering plants are under threat of extinction, according to an alarming report by scientists.
In every corner of the globe the evidence of the biodiversity crisis is now impossible to ignore.
UN biodiversity report calls for global action to prevent destruction of the Earth’s resources.