Environment

Plastic used in trays, wrappings around fruit and vegetables and cheeses and other food packets had 4,283 individual chemicals of which 148 highly hazardous substances.

Scientists have shown how much sea level would rise if Larsen C and George VI - two Antarctic ice shelves at risk of collapse - were to break up

Researchers say that naturally occurring compounds in the plant may stop cancer cells from spreading and block tumour blood supplies

Cambridge Street Aid has set up 'giving points' for the homeless

Nine-month-old Willow picks up discarded plastic bottles during morning walks in West Park, Goole

The UK’s leading vegan and farmed animal charities and NGOs are coming together in London today to discuss challenges and explore opportunities in the movement to help it become more successful. Leaders from ten organisations will meet to discuss their plans, how they might learn from each other and, most importantly, how they can support each other and work together in progressing veganism and meat reduction in the UK and beyond. Director of ProVeg UK Jimmy Pierson said: “There are...

It was a green and pleasant land just three months ago, but now the UK is brown

Cherie Harris and James Mainwaring enlisted the help of food waste charity The Real Junk Food Project to create a menu made up entirely food heading for the bin

Catherine Friend, 28, from Norwich, become the first to travel around the entire coast of Mallorca