The Latest Breaking News on Environment

More than 161 million people are under heat alerts as extreme weather prompts warnings and health fears.

Smallholder farmers in rural Gwanda, a region in Zimbabwe that borders South Africa, have been affected by a double shock – a combination of heat, droughts and floods caused by climate change, and water contamination and damaged land caused by illegal, small-scale mining.

The all-GOP 15th Court of Appeals soon will hear disputes involving the state’s environmental regulators. “It’s BYOC—bring your own court—for polluters and powerful interests.”

Strange as it may seem, early germ theorists could tell us a lot about today’s attitudes toward climate change.

Twelve million hectares of agricultural soils are lost globally through soil degradation every year. As an ecologist, I work alongside farmers and growers in the field and have seen how farming can help solve this global soil crisis.

A very large factory fire in Melbourne sent plumes of thick, dark smoke billowing across the western part of the city on Wednesday afternoon, with authorities issuing warnings for people in surrounding suburbs. The fire has now been brought under control, but efforts to control the impacts will likely continue…

A rising number of lawsuits in courts around the world are holding governments and corporations to account for their treatment of the seas and those who rely on them

A summer’s day out at Somerset cricket ground provides the perfect backdrop for some birdwatching

North Hertfordshire: I thought I’d missed the fledging window, but today I catch two, crash-landing and struggling for balance as they leave the nest

Australia's environment ministers are accused of being missing in action and doing little to get ready for the impacts of bird flu on native wildlife.

From fried silk worm pupa to protein bars packed with ground mealworm, Singapore’s long list of edible insects could be a sign of things to come