When Glen Peters bought a heat pump for his home in Oslo he wasn’t thinking about the carbon it would avoid. Convenience played a role; a fireplace was too much of a hassle – the effort of having to…
Letter says government pushing ahead with new fossil fuel projects while criminalising activists who raise alarm
Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry and Ben Okri have joined the former archbishop of…
‘Bog oak’ study finds more than 400 well preserved yews, which could help solve mystery of historic rapid sea level rise
The flat landscape of the East Anglian Fens is known for its vast arable…
European Environment Agency says half of deaths could have been avoided by cutting pollution to recommended limits
Dirty air killed more than half a million people in the EU in 2021, estimates show…
In 2017, 66 people died after fires ripped through eucalyptus stands around Pedrógão Grande. Restrictions on the highly flammable trees have provoked death threats, yet others feel they do not go far…
Temperatures reached 102F in Rio last Friday as 60,000 people packed into the Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos for Swift’s concert
In Brazil, a tropical country whose famed Carnival celebrations are…
Isle of May’s wildlife warden calls it ‘soul-destroying’ to discover birds he ringed as chicks washing up dead on the Scottish coast
For decades, as dusk drew in every evening, up to 700 shags would…
Confirmed incidents of the illegal persecution of birds of prey have fallen to their lowest levels for more than a decade, according to the latest RSPB Birdcrime report.
But the conservation charity…