International mining conference among forums involving oil, coal and gas industries approved for subsidies in program touted as boosting events sector.
The Morrison government is offering fossil…
Scots universities signed up to a COP26 green network of academic institutions committed to tackling climate change have shares worth nearly £5.2 million in fossil fuel firms and arms companies.
We're all culprits in the plastic pollution crisis — and that's by design.
I was reminded of this recently when I ordered a set of carbon filters for my countertop compost bin. (Like most people, I…
he Bank of England told banks and businesses to start assessing the risks they face from climate change immediately, and brace to pay much more for polluting.
Bill Gates has been accused of hypocrisy after entering a bid to buy the world's largest private jet operator, just one month before he releases a book preaching about climate change.
The Microsoft…
Post-Brexit regulation doesn’t match new EU rules to tackle ocean pollution, despite UK being Europe’s largest plastic waste producer
The UK has been accused of failing to honour its promise to curb…
It’s hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile phone in hand. Computers, tablets and smartphones have transformed how we communicate, work, learn, share news and entertain ourselves.…
Call for world leaders to act in wake of French extradition case that turned on environmental concerns.
Air pollution does not respect national boundaries and environmental degradation will lead to…
Fossil fuel is expected to dominate Africa’s energy mix by the end of the decade.
A new research from the University of Oxford has predicted that the total electricity generation across the African…
Polyester fibres that injure marine life were found in sea water across region.
The Arctic is “pervasively” polluted by microplastic fibres that most likely come from the washing of synthetic…
Environmental campaigners say failure to call in West Cumbria Mining planning application ‘jaw-dropping’
Environmental campaigners and a local MP have criticised the government’s “jaw-dropping”…
Conservation groups say it is a last-minute push by the Trump administration to help secure drilling rights for oil companies before the president leaves office in two weeks.
The Trump …
In what Japanese regulators on Wednesday called an "extremely serious" development, lethal levels of radiation have been recorded inside the damaged reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear…
EPA rule will require release of raw data from scientific studies
Critics fear compromising personal details and health benefits
The Environmental Protection Agency has completed one of its last…
Promising new studies suggest the long elusive technology may be capable of producing electricity for the grid by the end of the decade.
If all goes as planned, the US will eliminate all greenhouse…
The European Union's executive branch on Tuesday announced new rules for plastic waste shipments—including a ban on some exports to poorer countries—that will take effect on January 1 as part of the…
Lancet report finds that toxic air caused rise in lung cancer, stroke and other diseases.
Pollution accounted for nearly 1.7m premature deaths in India in 2019, or 18% of all deaths, according to a…
This year's economic shutdowns have done little to reduce the world's carbon emissions. While pollution has dipped, greenhouse gases keep accumulating in the atmosphere, locking in future decades of…
Tom Kennedy learned about the long-term contamination of his family's drinking water about two months after he was told that his breast cancer had metastasized to his brain and was terminal.