Climate campaigners call for halt to regional UK airports expansion

Ministers must consider cumulative impact of proposals ‘likely to compromise’ emissions targets The government must intervene…

Snared: catching poachers to save Italy’s songbirds

With five million birds a year illegally caught in Italy, activists in Brescia are teaming up…

New EPA chief Michael Regan relishes ‘clean slate’ after chaos of Trump era

Michael Regan has perhaps the most fiendishly challenging job within Joe Biden’s administration. As the head…

Weatherwatch: why Atlantic Portugal has a ‘Mediterranean climate’

Despite not being on the Mediterranean, Portugal has what is termed a Mediterranean climate: warm (sometimes…

Surfers Against Sewage launches long-term plastic waste clean-up

Charity urges public to join Million Mile Beach Clean, created to mark emergence from UK lockdown…

Country diary: sticks, moss and dog hair – the nest-building has begun

A handful of sticks in the fireplace: someone placing kindling, someone casting fortunes, someone marking a…

Manchin sees ‘no circumstance’ for voting to kill filibuster

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) drew a hard line Wednesday on voting to weaken or eliminate the…