The Latest Breaking News on Environment

Chimpanzees don’t just drum on tree roots for fun — they do it in rhythm, and they may be using it to send messages through the forest.

The French research vessel Tara is sailing the French coast to push for stronger ocean protections ahead of next month’s United Nations summit in Nice. The schooner left Brittany in March and is stopping in ports around the country to raise awareness about climate change, pollution and threats to marine…

Ageing assets and lack of funding could mean entire towns and villages vulnerable to flooding, investigation shows

Thousands have been displaced and conservation work halted as series of killings jeopardises decades of work in Niassa, one of Africa’s biggest protected areas

Exclusive: Funds with names such as ‘Sustainable Global Stars’ have stakes in some of the world’s biggest polluters

Fire in black sheoak forest of East Gippsland would destroy the birds’ food supply, conservationist says

Labor's pledge to deliver a once-in-a-generation overhaul of environmental laws went unfulfilled in its first term, leaving a new minister to finish the job.

The writer and poet on reimagining rivers as living beings, the ecological crisis near and far and why copyright laws should protect nature

Downsizing at Climeworks comes amid economic uncertainty and ‘reduced momentum’ for climate tech

MP says draft law will let developers ‘pay cash to trash’ habitats and urges colleagues to back his amendments

Cranbrook, Kent: Eating only wild food for three months means a diet of anything from hogweed to crayfish to roadkill fox, though the effects are transformative