The Latest Breaking News on Environment

Appointee was a climate chief at the World Bank and will lead UK’s return to high-level environmental diplomacy

The forthright climate expert has occupied top positions at the World Bank and the UN

The underwater archaeologist Mensun Bound recounts some of the astonishing relics he has seen, as detailed in his new co-authored book, Wonders in the Deep

When sighting rates for basking sharks are high they are low for minke whales, says monitoring programme

Thunderstorms have swept through central Australia, breaking the rainfall record for the region's mid-year dry season.

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Lime trees drop sooner than most, and the piles of curled leaves are bolstered by thousands of pale and papery bracts

Researchers find climate crisis aggravated the four days of heavy rainfall and deadly floods

Narrative that transition has stalled ‘demonstrably not true’, researcher says, but investment and construction must accelerate

Oil and gas wells are dotted off Australia’s shores. They involve huge steel structures fixed firmly to the sea floor, and thousands of kilometres of pipelines.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has revealed the Coalition’s nuclear energy plan relies on many of Australia’s coal-fired power stations running for at least another 12 years – far beyond the time frame officials expect the ageing facilities to last.

At the end of September, the UK’s last remaining coal power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will be retired. The closure of the plant should – and will – be celebrated by environmentalists, as the move away from coal has made Britain’s electricity much cleaner over the past decade. It is…