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Green-run council also curbing ads for airlines, cruises, fossil fuels and SUVs on its billboards and bus shelters

Thousands of miles of new power lines are needed to deliver climate targets and energy security, but bills will rise in the short term and opponents are mobilising

Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...

Plans to strengthen legislation already going through parliament might mean donors having to meet stricter UK residence requirements

The UK government must reject plans for a third runway at Heathrow to meet legally binding climate targets.

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Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

Exclusive data shared with Channel 4 News shows 79 areas where fracking could take place, despite Labour’s pledge of an outright ban, writes Andrew Misra.

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Foreign Secretary signs documents allowing the UK to formally ratify landmark ocean agreement in New York this afternoon

Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick says Farage accepted staff, security and accommodation from George Cottrell before becoming an MP

Xlinks wants to build a Devon data campus but is facing opposition from residents.

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New beavers in west London have prevented flooding to Greenford station three years in a row.

Climate action can be one of our strongest electoral assets, helping unite the broad coalition required to win a second term. But only if we get the messaging right.

Greedy UK companies are wrecking the world’s forests through their international supply chains. Last year was the hottest on record, yet global deforestation - one of the leading causes of climate bre...

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

Add my name Did you know the UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world? There’s less wildlife today than in living memory − and it’s still disappearing before our eyes. From hedgeho...

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Ministerial hopeful backs calls to stop billionaire donors from buying our politics, putting him at odds with Keir Starmer's Government

Lucy Powell calls for tougher laws to tackle misinformation and says Reform UK has benefited from bots and troll farms

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Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics

Government should fit solar panels to power air con units where vulnerable people live, say green advocates

Researchers also question whether UK’s impartiality rules allow for proper scrutiny in era of multiparty politics

Without urgent intervention England faces water shortages of 5bn litres a day by 2055, peers tell government

No 10 moves to lock in sweeping emissions cuts, seeking to outflank the Greens on net zero while setting up a clash with Reform UK and the Tories

The US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia – some of the highest oil-producing nations and major greenhouse gas emitters – opposed the measure

Thames at Ham designated as one of 13 new swimming areas across England to be monitored for water quality