Campaigners warn of US ‘dark money’ take-over across continent.
Right-wing US groups, some with links to Donald Trump, are spending millions of pounds campaigning against LGBT and women's rights in…
The Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Mechtild Rössler, expressed concern after the fire that, on the afternoon of 11 October, broke out in Kilimanjaro National Park (United Republic of…
British Museum, London
From sleds made of bones to supernatural sealskin hunting suits, this stirring show celebrates the heroism and ingenuity of humans who survive in balance with nature
The Tongass spans more than 25,000 square miles (64,750 sq km) in southeast Alaska and is one of the largest intact temperate rain forests in the world.
A century ago Virginia’s coastal lagoons were a natural paradise. Fishing boats bobbed on the waves as geese flocked overhead. Beneath the surface, miles of seagrass gently swayed in the surf, making…
Leaders of climate and conservation groups on Tuesday welcomed House Democrats' introduction of landmark legislation that aims to address the ocean impacts of human-caused global heating and reform…
The mass death of sea creatures off the coast of Kamchatka in Russia's far east was most likely caused by toxic algae and not man-made factors, Russian officials have said.
The find weeks ago raised…
The famed deer that roam the city of Nara, in Japan, no longer face discomfort – or far worse – after local companies developed a safe alternative to the plastic packaging discarded by tourists that…
A group of Indigenous women and their allies on Monday urged the heads of major global financial institutions to stop propping up the tar sands industry and sever all ties with the sector's "climate-…
Halting destruction of wild places could slow frequency of deadly outbreaks, say scientists.
The world is in an “era of pandemics” and unless the destruction of the natural world is halted they will…
Lack of policies regulating impact on natural world means finance industry effectively bankrolling biodiversity loss, analysis finds.
The world’s largest investment banks provided more than $2.6tn…
Before the scheme, only 24 per cent of wildlife crime prosecutions in Kenya ended in conviction, writes Abbianca Makoni.
Global legal experts including from Britain experienced in sharpening laws…
Millions of highly polluting used cars from rich countries are being "dumped" on developing nations, according to a UN report.
Between 2015 and 2018, some 14 million older, poor quality vehicles…
In the final presidential debate Thursday night, Vice President Joe Biden called climate change an "existential threat to humanity" that we have a moral obligation to address. Whoever leads the…
Fikile Ntshangase was involved in legal dispute over extension of coalmine in KwaZulu-Natal.
A South African environmental activist who opposed the extension of a coalmine near her home has been…
It has been around 20 years since a lengthy discussion on climate change featured in a presidential debate during which time a monumental shift has happened in how America views the crisis.
The excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activity since the start of the industrial revolution has already raised the Earth's temperature by more than one degree Celsius, increased the risk of …
Chairman Ken MacKenzie tells AGM that fossil fuels will be part of the energy mix for decades.
BHP management has batted away shareholder criticism of the miner’s intention to continue investing in…
Parliamentary elections will be held in New Zealand tomorrow (October 17), with the Labour-led government headed by Jacinda Ardern, popular on the back of its widely-admired response to Covid-19,…