Biodiversity

Plan Bee founder and chief executive Warren Bader reveals why everyone from Boyzone to Balfour Beatty is embracing the bee-keeping craze

Party is committed to planting 3.5m trees if they stay in power in attempt to woo back voters from the Greens and Labour

Environmental Audit Committee also questions role of industry in funding research into impact of pesticides

BirdLife International aims to help deliver a huge increase in wind and solar capacity without threatening endangered bird species

Defra calls on people to help boost pollinator populations by following five point action plan

Research demonstrates for the first time the knock-on effects to other species of class of insecticides known to harm bees

Policymakers face call to overhaul estuaries management amid escalating environmental risks

From tidal turbines to restored oysters, Bordeaux maps out plans for a sustainable estuary

New study by University of East Anglia finds too few companies are measuring full costs of their resource use

Spain, France, UK, US and Japan among countries giving generous fuel subsidies enabling industrial fishing far offshore, says Global Ocean Commission