What explains the persistence of littering when most other forms of anti-social behaviour are in decline?
Are talking bins in town centres the answer?
The idea that we can decouple from nature through technological intensification is highly questionable.
Abstraction has its place – in modern art that no one is forced to look at or an experimental novel that no one has to read.
The priority should be improving horticulture in Birmingham.
What if solar panel owners could store their electricity for later use?
What we’ve done on an EU Public Prosecutor, immigration, Mediterranean refugees, car safety, plastic bags – and exposing Labour’s hypocrisy.
The spread of resistance to a growing list of antibiotics is already happening and if it continues unchecked then the impact on everyday life will be profound.
Fortunately, the transition to cleaner energy sources is now the province of action, not talk.
Are high-rise cityscapes doomed to failure? The Manhattan skyline would suggest not. However, what works for New York is not easily translated to London.
It does nothing to reduce carbon emissions, increases the cost of living, keeps people in developing countries in poverty, and has a negative effect on the state finances.
What is it? The decision to establish a protected area around the Pitcairn Islands, revealed in yesterday’s Budget.
Investor-protection clauses are a common feature of international trade and there is no evidence that they suppress governments’ regulatory enthusiasm.
Also: New poll shows Scots want second referendum within the decade; Welsh farmers call for badger cull; Scottish Labour trick Nats on Twitter.
China was famously said to be building a coal-fired power station every week. Now it is building an equivalent amount of clean energy generating capacity every week.