The Latest Breaking News on Environment

Blakeney Point, Norfolk: The old steamer, called Yankee, has long been abandoned on the shingle, dwindling in the elements. I take the four-mile walk to visit

Exclusive: Pollution targets set out alongside nature recovery projects to allay concerns over housebuilding

A team from Plastic Odyssey and Unesco have carried out a mission to map plastic waste, test removal methods and establish monitoring protocols on the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles. It is one of 51 marine areas listed as a World Heritage Site, increasingly under threat from plastic pollution.

Use of 8m pounds of antibiotics and antifungals a year leads to superbugs and damages human health, lawsuit claims

Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects

Labour knows it needs to win over the ‘sea wall’ cohort of coastal voters in the next election. But as anger over inequality grows, time is running out

NSW police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%

Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind

Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away

Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications

Exclusive: Concerns over impact on health and environment, as well as £1.63bn in avoided landfill tax