The Latest Breaking News on Environment

Friends of the Earth says older people and young children are most at risk in heat-vulnerable neighbourhoods

Deerness Valley, County Durham: So many of these insects succumb to the rolled-up newspaper, but they are worth a closer look

Imagine you’re a fairywren living in a patch of scrub behind a schoolyard in the suburbs. It’s been pretty nice so far, but a recent increase in neighbourhood cats and the council’s insect control tactics mean it’s time to look for somewhere safer to live.

Agriculture ministers have agreed to hold a national planning drill to make sure Australia is ready for the possible arrival of the deadly H5 bird flu strain.

The laws designed to protect the environment in New South Wales are completely ineffective, according to the scathing Henry Review in 2023.

When climate change leads the news, it’s often down to a hurricane, heatwave or flood. And, judging by our most widely read environment stories over the past decade, extreme weather really is one of the main ways the public (or at least our readers) learns about climate breakdown.

Last week the UK’s new Labour government made a bold decision. The new minister for local government, Angela Rayner, announced that the government would withdraw its support for a new coal mine near Whitehaven in Cumbria, which had been approved two years ago by the then Conservative government.

Driven out by hunting and habitat loss, the birds are now nesting and breeding in a few pockets in England

Union says members being ‘kept up at night’ over failure to commit to continue payments at current rate

Organisers working to ensure safe environment for attenders in October after guerrillas’ warning of disruption

Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance