Andy Burnham said he would wait for the results of a consultation on a scheme estimated to cost £33bn

The UK's busiest airport cautions it may miss the government target of 2035 as ministers say the deadline has "always been ambitious".

New runway would emit as much CO₂ as the city of Birmingham, says independent Climate Change Committee

Government needs ‘clear, co-ordinated’ airports policy

Residents near the airport fear their problems would only worsen with a third runway

Exclusive: Campaigners warn 600-year-old New Barn at Harmondsworth could be ‘shaken to pieces’ by vibrations

Even low levels of traffic noise can negate the benefits of listening to natural sounds, researchers say

The study analysed the data of 396,000 UK citizens between the ages of 39 and 70 as part of the UK Biobank

Using a natural experiment, we found that within-ZCTA increases in ZEV registrations were associated with reductions in NO2 air pollution measured by satellite and replicated with ground-level monitor...

Longford residents worry about the future of their village if the change is introduced.

In an extraordinary legal manoeuvre, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) switched sides in a federal lawsuit, joining industry groups and asking a federal appeals court to overturn recently a...

The aviation industry is at risk of missing its goal of eliminating carbon emissions by 2050, the head of Airbus SE said, less than two months after the world’s biggest planemaker delayed plans to bui...

How our noisy world is increasing health problems from heart attacks, to sleep and anxiety

The BBC's James Gallagher investigates the invisible killer all around us.

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Plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport have been slammed by environmental groups as “catastrophic”, “desperate” and “irresponsible”.

Carbon dioxide emissions from private aviation increased by 46% between 2019 and 2023, with almost half of flights covering less than 500 km in distance, according to an analysis of flight tracking da...

We set out how air pollution (PM2.5) has changed across England and explore inequalities by ethnicity, income deprivation, region and age.