Cheaper oil could damage renewable energies, says Richard Branson

Entrepreneur claims Saudi Arabia is encouraging collapse in oil price in bid to undermine fracking and clean energy

Feathers and leathers: fashion houses give cycling a luxury makeover

From gold-plated forks to hand-crafted panniers, luxury goods retailers are adding bling to the bicycle

Tiger Woods to design The Trump World Golf Club Dubai

‘Trump World Golf Club Dubai’, 18-Hole Championship Course will be Designed by Tiger Woods. Golfing superstar Tiger Woods, one of the most famous and iconic sportsmen in the world, will bring his design expertise and worldwide playing experience to ‘Trump World Golf Club Dubai,’ a new 18-hole championship golf course. Site preparation work on the … Read more

Earth faces sixth ‘great extinction’ with 41% of amphibians set to go the way of the dodo

Analysis for prestigious Nature magazine sounds alarm on the way that human activity, from overfishing to agriculture, is forcing a vast number of species to vanish from the wild

Northern white rhino’s death leaves just five left in the world

Global warming continues despite continuous denial

A new paper shows that the Earth’s climate has continued to warm rapidly in recent years

The weather bomb, the polar vortex, #snowvember: will the storm of extreme weather names ever end?

It used to be that only hurricanes and typhoons were entitled to them, but now barely a day’s forecast goes by without another catchy monicker being coined