The Latest Breaking News on Environment

At least 123 oil and gas bosses and staff invited as ‘guests’ by Azerbaijani government and given host country badges, the Guardian has learned

Across Yorkshire, the air pollution measured on 5 November reached level seven on the government’s 10-point scale

Future UN conferences should only be held in countries that show support for climate action, urge influential group

Fossil fuel-linked lobbyists outnumber delegations of almost every country at climate talks in Baku, analysis finds

In a world coping with climate setbacks and Donald Trump’s re-election in the United States, the growing prominence of international carbon markets may just be the good news we have been looking for. Canada should take notice.

Three-quarters of Australia’s freshwater fish species are found nowhere else on the planet. This makes us the sole custodians of remarkable creatures such as the ornate rainbowfish, the ancient Australian lungfish and the magnificently named longnose sooty grunter.

Analysis lays bare huge challenge of mismanaged waste on eve of UN plastic treaty talks in Busan

The late season storm is forecast to bring heavy rains to flood-prone Central America before moving east towards the US.

Keir Starmer’s pledge to cut the UK’s emissions by 81% by 2035 is undoubtedly ambitious. However, his assertion at the Cop29 climate conference that it can be achieved without “telling people how to live their lives” is probably not true – at least, not according to what scientists who study…