The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the use of products containing the weedkiller dicamba for use on cotton and soybeans Tuesday. The EPA announcement means that two products that…
With demand and share prices dropping, Europe’s fossil fuel producers recognise that peak oil is probably now behind them.
Ayear ago, only the most ardent climate optimists believed that the world’s…
Industry urges people not to throw out dead batteries with household rubbish or recycling.
“Zombie batteries” are causing hundreds of fires a year at waste and recycling sites, industry experts have…
Environmental campaigners raise concerns over sustainability of some eco-friendly items.
Disposable nappies, cotton buds , pet food and novelty Donald Trump toilet paper were among the products on…
Exclusive: Cutting pollution levels may help to reduce rates of mental health problems, say scientists
Small increases in people’s exposure to air pollution are linked to significant rises in…
Plans to release over a million tonnes of water into the sea ‘will have serious, long-term consequences’ environmental group says.
Contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan …
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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 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…
Hinkley Point C building site waste due to be dumped in sea near Cardiff.
The builders of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station must be completely open about the potential environmental impact…
In the southern desert of Dubai in the UAE, a new wonder is rising but it’s not another skyscraper as the region is famed for, instead, a coal-fired power plant is underway. The construction of the $…
Report estimates there is already 100 million tonnes of plastic in the sea, with rate of pollution set to rise.
Over 200,000 tonnes of plastic are being released into the Mediterranean Sea every…
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…
Green groups say agreement will allow emissions to continue to rise in the next decade.
Governments have rejected calls for tougher regulation of international shipping, settling instead for new…
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…
We need to discuss how communities and workers in the coal sector will cope with China’s push for self-sufficiency.
Australian politicians have been selling the “dream” of coal for years, but it’s a…
Australia is transitioning to a clean energy economy, but it should not get distracted by the efforts of the incumbent fossil fuel industry to delay its ‘inevitable’ demise, a panel of energy…
‘This is tragic, as it makes up a large portion of the new pup arrivals expected in late November,’ says conservationist organisation.
Thousands of dead seal pups have been washed up on land in …
Europe's chief policy-making body Wednesday called for a safer, more sustainable chemicals market, plotting a zero-tolerance approach that nearly eliminates hormone mimicking compounds.