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The oldest fossil forest in Asia which existed between 359m and 419m years ago, has been discovered by scientists.  Dating back to the Devonian period, a geological era known as the age of fishes, it was found in the walls of clay quarries in China, near the town of Xinhang, in the country’s Anhui province. It is made up of 250,000 …

The world’s largest investment firm, managing more than $6.5 trillion (£5.4 trillion), has been accused of costing investors tens of billions of dollars in returns over the past decade by backing fossil fuel companies like Shell and ExxonMobil. A new study suggests that New York based fund manager BlackRock’s bets …

The British government has spent £680m of its foreign aid budget on fossil fuel extraction abroad since 2010, despite signing up to international agreements to cut greenhouse gas emissions and claiming to be a leader on tackling climate change, campaigners say. Nearly a quarter of the total overseas foreign aid budget goes on fossil …