Climate Change Is Transforming Europe’s Birds
A new study has found that the climate crisis is causing major disruptions to European birds, from shifting their nesting dates to decreasing their chick numbers to even changing their general body sizes.
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Climate Activists Deflate SUV Tires Across Britain
An environmental activist group called the Tyre Extinguishers has deflated hundreds of SUV tires in Britain in order to send the message that the luxury, off-road vehicles are not welcome in urban areas. The group said it is the first in what is to be a series of protests.
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6 Lifestyle Changes You Can Make to Help With the Climate Crisis
Sometimes it feels as if there’s not much we as individuals can do to help with the climate crisis.
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Environmentalists You Should Know
Rachel Carson and Greta Thunberg are household names, but the list of female environmentalists throughout history is long.
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Greenwashing UK fashion firms to be named and shamed by watchdog
Crackdown on sweeping eco-friendly claims hoped to boost faith in genuine sustainable products
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Millions suffering in deadly pollution ‘sacrifice zones’, warns UN expert.
Businesses blamed for rise of toxic hotspots hitting poor communities hardest
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Tories plan big expansion of wind farms ‘to protect national security’
Planning rules to be relaxed so that renewables and nuclear power can boost energy independence after Ukraine invasion
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Mayor defends planning decisions ‘made 150 years ago’ amid calls for flood insurance support
Home owners are being left to cover ‘catastrophic’ financial risks as the climate crisis and a legacy of poor planning coalesce, expert says
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Tens of thousands take part in climate protests across France
Demonstrations call for greater focus on environmental crisis in runup to presidential election next month
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Nigel Farage’s hard-right faction won Brexit. Now net zero is in its sights
A small group of rightwing MPs are jangling Tory nerves and using questions about living costs to undermine climate action
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Ban Ki-moon warns UK against fracking as world stands at ‘dangerous’ point
Former UN secretary general says countries face stark choices brought on by the war in Ukraine
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UN ocean treaty is ‘once in a lifetime’ chance to protect the high seas
Negotiators aim to agree on legal framework for protecting international waters that are key to ‘life as we know it’
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Welsh solar farm exceeds expectations in powering Swansea hospital
Health board-owned Brynwhillach installation generates enough over 50-hour period to fulfil all of Morriston site’s energy needs.
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No 10 must not cave in to Tory climate sceptics on fracking, says Ed Miliband
As government reviews UK dependence on Russian energy, Ed Miliband calls for clean sprint towards renewables.
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While the Tories dawdle over Russian gas, we have a £28bn plan to make energy cheap – and green
Insulating homes and investing in wind and solar are the only solutions to the energy crisis. But Johnson is busy pandering to climate deniers
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Ukraine’s hope for a green city lost amid devastated Mariupol’s rubble
‘They’re destroying not only people and infrastructure, they also destroy nature,’ says Yevgenia Zasiadko, head of the climate department at an environmental protection group in Kyiv.
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Biden says renewables – not Russia – is the only solution to gas pump price woes
The habitually-late President Joe Biden delivered news on Tuesday worth waiting for: the United States is banning all imports of Russian oil and gas following its invasion of
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Waterways charity to plant thousands of trees this spring
The Canal and River Trust will be planting enough trees to cover 21 football pitches. A charity that protects around 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales will be pl
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Relocate farms and cut their carbon footprints by 70%, scientists say
Scientists remap global farmland to reveal ‘optimal scenario’ for reducing impacts on climate.
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‘We need to build arks’: Author William deBuys on climate resilience lessons from the ‘attic of the world’
Writer and lifelong conservationist tells The Independent what a six-week trek to some of the most remote villages on Earth taught him about facing the climate crisis head on.
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