Half of all operating thermal batteries came online since 2025. Policy, not technology, is now the main constraint.

The energy secretary’s opposition to North Sea drilling means appointing him to No 11 would concern White House officials

An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers

Average tour earnings down 45%, with nearly three-fifths of musicians saying touring in Europe is no longer viable

This is why we rely on evidence rather than opinions.

How wind and solar quietly pushed gas off the margin, and the wholesale price followed.

Which? alleges Apple abused its dominant position by not giving iPhone and iPad users a choice of cloud storage provider. Instead, it steered them to its own iCloud service, and this led to Apple char...

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The financial body cuts its growth forecast for the UK and warns the war threatens to throw the global economy

First Minister John Swinney says the move is part of the government's

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

Amend the Carer’s Allowance rules so unpaid carers continue to be paid their allowance after 28 days if they are still providing essential care in the hospital and require NHS trusts to confirm in wri...

Exhibition exploring the ideas emerging from Healthy & Equitable Futures workshops. In the Hub throughout January.

British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

Each year, World Futures Day invites individuals, institutions, and communities around the world to pause and consider the longer-term trajectories shaping our shared lives. Originating as a global in...

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals. In the most wide-ranging analysis of the global plastic system, the Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with academics including at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, said plastic, a material once called revolutionary and modern, was now putting public health, world economies and the future of the planet at risk. Continue reading...

Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .

Each year, World Futures Day invites individuals, institutions, and communities around the world to pause and consider the longer-term trajectories shaping our shared lives. Originating as a global in...

The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.

Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

UK expected to reduce contribution to Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 20%

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities A British university complied with a demand from Beijing to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project being dropped, the Guardian can reveal. In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China. Continue reading...