The broadcaster, writer, comedian and conservationist inspired generations to discover birds and the natural world.

An Atlantic current, known as AMOC, could weaken, bringing Canada-style colder weather to Western Europe. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson is on a research ship monitoring the current.

The declaration coincides with U.S. fossil fuel companies’ use of Trump’s trade tensions and international discord to undermine EU climate laws.

People urged to stand up against populism and antisemitism as the world marks International Holocaust Memorial Day

The UK Government could soon award public money to the world's deadliest windfarm for birds. Speak up now.

Reports that Stanislav Orlov was killed by Moscow security services highlights careful managing of non-state power

Housing minister announces exemption to 10% net gain rule in England for smaller developments The government has broken its promise to protect nature by weakening planning rules for housing developers, groups have said. While developers once had to create “biodiversity net gain” (BNG), meaning creating 10% more space for nature on site than there was before the building took place, housing minister Matthew Pennycook announced exemptions to this rule on Tuesday. Continue reading...

The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit

Rising demand, falling income, fewer volunteers, and growing regulation are pushing charities – especially small ones – towards crisis

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Robin Sparkes November 4, 2025 Bird’s songs are swallowed by human cacophony…

Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites

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Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job

‘The objectives of the Paris agreement are slipping further out of reach,’ say researchers from LSE No major bank has yet committed to stop funding new oil and gas fields or coal capacity, research has found. Most banks that have recently updated their climate policies have weakened them, according to the research by the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Continue reading...

Housing Secretary Steve Reed criticised for reversing position on bird-friendly bricks once hailed as vital for urban swifts

The potential genetic consequences of escaped farm salmon for their counterparts in the wild

Xi suggested US is not rising to the climate challenge in his UN speech, but critics say new cuts fall ‘far short’ of what is necessary China announced its plans for future cuts to greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday, producing a scathing response from experts who said they were much too weak to stave off global catastrophe. The world’s second-biggest economy is also the biggest source of carbon dioxide by far, and its decisions on how far and how fast to shift to a low-carbon model will determine whether the world can stay within relatively safe temperature bounds. Continue reading...

From avoiding recycling a password, even part of it, to two-step verification, steps to closing an open door for hackers

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We spoke to former Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and began by asking him if Russia has much to fear.

It's being called an environmental catastrophe - that's been followed by an alleged government and industry coverup.

Reform UK’s plans to deport thousands of asylum seekers have been plucked “from thin air”, Newcastle’s council leader says.

Freedom of movement enriched the lives of many young people before Brexit; it's far more complicated and therefore restricted now

Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

When a new orangutan species was found near a Chinese-owned hydrodam in Indonesia, scientists and advocates launched a campaign to block the project. Then some who spoke against it lost their jobs and...

On the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, we ask: have we forgotten the demands for a more equal society made by the combatants?

Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth

Decades of habitat restoration will be lost without immediate stewardship funding. Farmers need clarity now, before nature pays the price

Documents released under a Freedom of Information request show that the Scottish Government’s nature advisory agency, NatureScot, has been procrastinating for 16 months on whether to impose a…