Green MP Caroline Lucas has criticised the appointment of Conservative climate sceptic Peter Lilley to a key environmental scrutiny role.

A conference on 'Sustainable Alternatives for Poverty Reduction and Ecological Justice' is being held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete 26-30 September.

Friends of the Earth's Executive Director has told his annual conference that the Chancellor's "reckless agenda threatens jobs, businesses and our precious environment."

In 2011, the International Panel on the State of the Oceans (IPSO), representing all marine science bodies, concluded that, “the world’s ocean is at high risk of entering a phase of extinction… unprecedented in human history.” Simon Barrow explores the issue of water from a biblical perspective.