Ajit Niranjan

A bear approaches a road in Covasna, Romania, to pick up food thrown by tourists – a practice leading them to increasingly venture out of the forest. Photograph: Andrei Pungovschi/AFP/Getty Images

Solly the sheep, who died at a Mallorcan animal sanctuary after contracting a mosquito-borne disease. Photograph: Ana Palacios Solly the sheep had not had an easy start to life, but his prospects…

Duncan and Helen Porter took the first photo, right, in 2009 and revisited this year. Composite: Duncan Porter A tourist has posted “staggering” photos of himself and his wife at the same spot in…

The huge passenger vessels sometimes known as “cruisezillas” are getting bigger than ever, according to new research which has found that the world’s biggest cruise ships have doubled in size since…

Getting wind turbines on grid, such as these near Radom, Poland, are helping the EU move away from fossil fuels. Photograph: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock Wind turbines and solar…

World temperature records were shattered on Sunday on what may be the hottest day scientists have ever logged, data suggests.

Farmers in Denmark will have to pay for planet-heating pollutants that their cattle expel as gas, after the government agreed to set the world’s first emissions tax on agriculture.

Swiss politicians have rejected a landmark climate ruling from the European court of human rights, raising fears that other polluting countries may follow suit.

Voters may deal Green parties a blow that costs them up to one-third of their seats, if polls before this week’s European elections prove correct, in a shift that could lead to a rollback of climate…

Shell has argued that it "lobbies for, not against, the energy transition" on the final day of its appeal against an important climate ruling. The fossil fuel company is fighting the decision of a…

The era of global warming has ended and “the era of global boiling has arrived”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said after scientists confirmed July was on track to be the world’s…

Storms, floods, wildfires and droughts drove more than 30 million people from their homes last year, as rising temperatures wrought extra chaos on the climate, according to a report published…

Civil society groups and public prosecutors in Brazil are taking President Jair Bolsonaro's government to court for failing to protect the Amazon rainforest, adding pressure to an administration…