All eyes on China: what to look out for at the UN biodiversity summit.
Everything you need to know about who will be there, who’s staying away and what the hot topics will be at Wednesday’s virtual event in New York.
Read MorePlanetary ‘safety net’ could halt wildlife loss and slow climate breakdown.
Researchers have drawn up a blueprint of areas that need additional conservation to stem biodiversity and climate crises.
Read MoreDramatic’ plunge in London air pollution since 2016, report finds.
Number of people living with illegal pollution levels has fallen by 94% since Sadiq Khan became mayor
Read MoreRacial Justice and Climate Change: Exposure
The relationship between race and climate change is too often ignored. Introduction
Read MoreIEA: Reaching net-zero will be virtually impossible without CCUS.
The flagship report ‘CCUS in Clean Energy Transitions’ was published by the autonomous intergovernmental organisation and argues for the need to invest more in CCUS in order to achieve net zero.
Read MoreTesco partners with WWF to halve the environmental impact of food production.
Tesco is working with the WWF to halve the environmental impact of its food production. Earlier this week, the retailer announced that it will become the first in the UK to set a sales target for plant-based alternatives.
Read MorePlastic straw ban comes into force in England.
Measure also stops businesses from supplying customers with plastic stirrers and cotton buds.
Read MoreBiden Vows to Bar Fossil Fuel Leaders From Transition Team.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday vowed to bar from his transition team any "leaders" of fossil fuel companies, a pledge environmentalists cautiously applauded while urging the former vice president to go further by committing to banning all Big Oil lobbyists and executives f
Read MoreTrump's Latest EPA Rollback Lets Polluters Spew More Lead, Arsenic, Mercury
Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has weakened yet another safeguard against air pol
Read MoreHow Can We Remove CO2 From the Atmosphere?
The world is, on average, 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer today than it was in 1850.
Read MoreFirst new deep coalmine in UK for 30 years gets go ahead.
Planning permission granted to Cumbria project that will extract 2.7m tonnes of coal per year.
Read More‘Green hydrogen’ from renewables could become cheapest ‘transformative fuel’ within a decade.
Government has nominated ‘clean hydrogen’ using gas and CCS but for many countries ‘clean’ already means without fossil fuels.
Read MoreTrouble breathing: 'We all breathe the same air, but we don't breathe equally'.
The question of who breathes, and who suffocates, is a question of who deserves to live. It’s a question that will only become more urgent as the climate crisis develops
Read MoreThe Ulez countdown: Londoners have a year to ditch old polluting cars.
A £12.50 a day charge will affect 350,000 motorists from next October when the Ultra Low Emission Zone is expanded.
Read MoreClimate Crisis: Is It Time to Ditch Economic Growth?
It was only in the mid-20th century, in the wake of the shattering impact of World Wars and when capitalism and communism were competing for global dominance, that we began to measure the success of an economy in terms of gross national product, or GDP.
Read MoreMountain butterflies 'will have to be relocated as habitats get too hot'.
Populations of mountain ringlet in Lake District face being wiped out as cooler habitats disappear. The diversity and resilience of cold-loving butterfly species is threatened by global heating which will destroy genetically unique populations, according to a study.
Read MoreHigh and dry: will India's swimming camels be the last of their kind?
Rapid industrialisation in Gujarat threatens the mangroves that kharai camels and their nomadic herders depend on. Ayub Amin Jat treats his camels like his children. But then his camels are no ordinary ungulates: they are a unique breed of camels that swim.
Read More'This is the Everest of zero carbon' – inside York's green home revolution.
The city plans to build Britain’s biggest zero-carbon housing project, boasting 600 homes in car-free cycling paradises full of fruit trees and allotments. When will the rest of the UK catch up?
Read MoreBiodegradable, Carbon-Negative Straws and Cutlery Could Help Stop Plastic Pollution.
Newlight Technologies, a California biotech company, has set its sights on curbing greenhouse gas emissions and marine plastic pollution simultaneou
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