Flatulent cattle are responsible for 4% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Add to this other livestock rearing activities, such as the transportation of cattle, and the figure for all agricultural emissions tops out around the 20% mark - 10 times that of air travel. However, help is at hand courtesy of a new pill that will hopefully control the blustery beasts’ belches and backend blast-offs.

Ensuring you don’t leave your electrical equipment on standby is a vital factor in reducing your personal CO2 emissions - especially considering that a television left on standby can still drain up to 40% of the power it uses when it’s switched on. But now two businessmen, appearing on BBC’s popular ‘Dragons’ Den’ programme, appear to have solved the problem.

Over the last decade electrical manufacturers have made it increasingly difficult for you to turn off your televisions. Thankfully that all looks set to change.

The Greenpeace campaign to stop British Airways running cheap budget flights from London to Newquay has taken an unexpected twist involving Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley.

Reaction to what is almost certain to be Gordon Brown’s final budget has been varied but mostly downbeat among environmental groups, charities and rival parties.

Greenpeace activists today offered free train tickets to BA passengers at Gatwick as part of a novel protest against the launch of a polluting short-haul flight to Cornwall.

Gordon Brown was this morning the target of a new newspaper spoof on the day he announced his eleventh budget. The likely successor to Tony Blair, who suffered a mauling from civil servant Lord Turnbill on the eve of his final budget (where he was accused of running the treasury with “Stalinist ruthlessness”), will have found little respite when opening today’s papers.

Supermarkets across the world are gearing up to reduce their carbon emissions as customers become more and more aware of the importance of ethical shopping.

This summer’s Big Chill Festival will be the greenest yet in their 13-year history through the implementation of simple yet innovative schemes to reduce the event’s carbon impact.

According to a recent study by a high street watchdog, shops and manufacturers are failing to inform customers about the electrical products they buy.