Environment

Last week the BBC reported that an independent coffee chain has seen sales fall by £250,000 since it banned single use coffee cups. The UK throws away a staggering 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups each year. Only a tiny proportion are recycled and half a million a day become litter. The problem is clear, but what’s to be done?Cambridge Consultants has been working on solutions. Here are three proposals:COFFEE CUP AS A SERVICEReusable cups are great, but we often forget them, and cleaning them...

Their macabre rituals are the subject of a new study as experts worry their prodding and licking of corpses may spread diseases like Ebola

Increasing ground temperatures in the Arctic are indicators of global climate change

Landrose Developments Limited ordered the demolition rather than spend more time waiting for a license after soprano pipistrelle bats were found to be roosting in the home in Stanmore, north west London.

The dramatic loss of ice in the Arctic is influencing sea-ice transport across the Arctic Ocean

The 'dustbin lid' jellyfish have been spotted in unprecedented numbers

Climate change has already changed breeding seasons of Britain's birds, butterflies, moths and flies

The Mini mum is just 8-11mm long. Other new species have been named Mini scule, with the largest, Miniature, a 'whopping' 15mm long.

The disease chytridiomycosis which eats away at the skin of amphibians threatens to contribute to the Earth's sixth mass extinction unless it can be controlled