The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production

Trees are nature’s air conditioning – cooling streets by up to 5°C, cutting heat risks, and helping cities withstand hotter summers

Feargal Sharkey speaking on the banks of the River Wharfe, Yorkshire, 2024 Campaigners, MPs and members of the public gathered together in Leeds for a special screening of Channel 4’s ‘Dirty Busine…

Ads from the 19th and 20th centuries shows how the industry has long tried to promote coal as clean and even healthy, despite evidence to the contrary.

It turns out that we may have been measuring them all wrong.

Exclusive: MPs ‘deeply concerned’ power plant may have misled ministers and regulators over source of wood pellets

Company publicly denied allegations that primary forests were being cut down to fuel UK’s biggest power plant

Now more than ever, communities in Maryland that have been overburdened by pollution for too long need and deserve state-level protections. Tell your legislators and Governor Moore to pass the CHERISH...

Exclusive: John Fingleton says regulators need to change their attitude to risk to end the country’s economic stagnation

Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment

Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.

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Trump’s plan threatens 60 million acres of protected U.S. forests—putting wildlife and climate at risk. Sign now to stop it.

COP30 host country Brazil is still drilling for oil in the Amazon. But why – and can it still be trusted to broker a meaningful agreement?

A new study analyses the effect of artificial light on ecosystems

Australia passed a landmark bill to overhaul the nation's environmental laws after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government struck a deal with the left-wing minority Greens party.

Thousands of landfills across Europe lie in flood-risk zones, areas which could endanger drinking water or sensitive conservation sites, Investigate Europe and Watershed Investigations can reveal in t...

The Parliament's right-wing majority has secured a one-year pause in the application of new regulations meant to protect vulnerable woodland.

A groundbreaking mapping project revealing a cocktail of environmental risks posed by thousands of Europe's landfills.

Boardrooms need to acknowledge that without healthy soils and reliable seasons the system could face collapse

Giant biomass plant reveals burning of wood pellets made 9% of UK’s electricity in July, its largest ever monthly share

Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

TRADE union leaders joined climate activists in protest outside Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) today to call on the government to ditch the Rosebank oil field.Situated 80 miles wes...

Pesticide Action Network Europe study finds average concentrations 100 times higher than in tap water

Meet the residents of the Caledonian Forest. Fact and folklore pages on trees, plants, animals and more.

Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

A 2000 study that concluded the well-known herbicide glyphosate was safe, widely cited since then, has just been officially disavowed by the journal that published it. The scientists are suspected of ...

Extensive oxidative potential measurements from across Europe analysed with the two most common assays, dithiothreitol and ascorbic acid, using a standardized protocol show the strong influence o...

Highway projects bring destruction to the rainforest and surrounding ecosystems in South America. One connecting Brazil and Peru is a case in point.