Oil and gas donors gave over £400k to Tories before North Sea decision

Exclusive: payments in past year came as government decided on licences for new fossil fuel sites…

‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise

Officials prepare to elevate streets despite financial shortfalls, amid recognition that not every home can be…

‘War in the woods’: hundreds of anti-logging protesters arrested in Canada

Activists seeking to halt cutting of ancient trees have chained themselves to trunks in remote woodland…

‘Less water means more gas’: how drought will test California’s stressed power grid

Earlier this month, the water level in Lake Oroville – California’s second-largest reservoir – was so…

Australia and 11 other countries lobby Unesco over Great Barrier Reef decision-making

Twelve international ambassadors to Unesco, including Australia’s, have written to the UN body to “share collective…

‘A lot of people are jaded’: Dems despair amid D.C. gridlock

Efforts to forge a bipartisan gun control deal in the Senate have fallen apart. A sweeping…

Democrats hurtle toward debt deadline without a clear plan

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure negotiations could get more complicated, thanks to the government’s need to keep…

Mystery illness strikes down birds across US south and midwest

A mysterious illness is killing birds across several states in the south and midwestern US, and…

Water of death: how arsenic is poisoning rural communities in India

‘A crisis is brewing’, experts warn, with contaminated water exposing villagers to increased risk of cancer…

Call the copse! The sudden flourishing of culture about trees

From a fake forest in central London to Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard told from the orchard’s point…