UK to support plans for new global treaty to ‘turn tide’ on plastic pollution
Britain has thrown its weight behind a new global agreement to tackle the plastic pollution crisis,…
Firefighters and others on the climate frontline need Labour to be bolder | Matt Wrack
This week, the government announced a so-called “green industrial revolution“, with the slogan and some watered-down…
The ‘market’ won’t save us from climate disaster. We must rethink our system | Robert S Devine
The massive wildfires that have been rampaging across the American west this year are not purely…
‘It isn’t safe to walk’: how would young people plan UK streets?
A group of sixth formers are talking about street play, hide-and-seek and football – and about…
Republicans seek to stymie Biden with final Trump nominees
Two months before Joe Biden assumes the presidency, Senate Republicans are racing to install a series…
Endangered animals get entangled in plastics that riddle US oceans – study
Endangered marine mammals and sea turtles are routinely being entangled in or are swallowing pieces of…
The secret world of pygmy seahorses, where males give birth – photo essay
After spending hundreds of hours observing pygmy seahorses for my doctorate, I knew exactly when Tom,…
Rediscover nature: winners and finalists – in pictures
Zoom Out on Nature, winner Horses in Galicia by Javier Arcenillas, taken in Galicia, Spain Photograph:…
Country diary: a waterlogged world reverting to the wild
On the parish’s edge, adjoining Viverdon Down and overlooked by Kit Hill, a 10-acre enclosure of…
Megaprojects risk pushing forests past tipping point – report
Infrastructure megaprojects risk pushing the world’s remaining forests past a “dangerous tipping point” and making climate…