Porto has introduced free public transport for its residents, allowing eligible passengers to use metro, bus, suburban rail, tram and river services across

The company that runs Scotland’s ageing nuclear power station wants to weaken safety standards to keep it running for at least four more years. But the nuclear safety watchdog has its doubts.

The country’s speedy rollout of renewables has put a lid on electricity bills

Could this be a watershed moment heralding US geopolitical and technological decline?

More than 50 heads of departments tell science minister that changes risk undermining crucial tech growth fields

Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

Scotland’s plans to achieve its First Carbon Budget (2026-2030) are largely ‘credible’ with only some risk, climate advisors have concluded. Long-term policies for decarbonising are lacking, however, ...

Scientists on the Royal Research Ship Discovery are monitoring a key Atlantic current. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson, who is with them, says the analysis sends a shiver down the spine.

Fires blaze through 8,500 hectares, forcing 50,000 people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to extinguish flames

Exclusive: From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus

Great Britain’s maximum wind generation record was broken on Friday, 5 December, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) has confirmed.

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals. In the most wide-ranging analysis of the global plastic system, the Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with academics including at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, said plastic, a material once called revolutionary and modern, was now putting public health, world economies and the future of the planet at risk. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Swedish carmakers push to retain target as Germany lobbies to help its own industry by softening cutoff date

Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dorothy for alerting me to this. In the Guardian today, the above and: UK energy bill payers will hand over £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, the French compan…

Environmental Standards Scotland chair Dr Richard Dixon said the current government had 'gone a little backwards from the rather strong position'.

Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain

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Shetland's methane emissions reached their highest level in a decade last year, driven by broken kit at EnQuest’s Sullom Voe terminal.

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

Controversial approaches to cooling the planet are unlikely to work, according to dozens of polar scientists.

Most of 16 stadiums hosting 2026’s FIFA World Cup will likely breach temperature safe-play limits as climate change progresses, sustainable sport researchers have warned. They believe the forthcoming ...

At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...

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BloombergNEF’s annual Electric Vehicle Outlook (EVO) expects nearly 22 million battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle sales this year, up 25% from 2024, as the cost of lithium-ion batteries falls...