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Biodiversity, public transport and home insulation loom large in Labour’s flagship programme for green governance.
More than 300,000 homes have been built in areas of high flood risk since 1989.
Instead of boycotting palm oil, source it from pastureland and not recently logged forests.
In the rush to become ‘open defecation free’, cities are taking quick fixes that are making matters worse.
Lakes are the final resting place for many of the Earth’s plants – and these organic graveyards are about to get a whole lot busier.
Bolivia’s huge lithium reserves are isolated and hard to extract, and global uncertainty over electric vehicles is bad for business.
Current policy to manage and protect people from flooding disadvantages those who are most vulnerable.
The jet stream is being distorted on both sides by fast-warming tropical and Arctic air. Should the tropics win out, weather patterns could change profoundly.
William Nordhaus’ predictions of what the climate crisis will cost the earth are dangerously at odds with climate science.
The Australian Labor Party’s failure to turn climate change into a winning campaign issue holds lessons for the UK Labour Party.
Today’s three-day weather forecast is as accurate as a 24-hour forecast in the 1990s. But floods are still particularly tricky to pin down.
This diminutive deer isn’t the only fantastical life form discovered in Vietnam. But hunting and habitat destruction threaten many with extinction.
A permanent fracking ban is needed to end the farce and shift resources into carbon capture and storage.
Scientists have reconstructed the monsoon over 145m years – and found it predates the Himalayas.
Ireland needs to stop burning peat, and wood from down under presents a surprising sustainability dilemma.
In failing to acknowledge that the capacity of rivers can change quickly, some flood models and defences may not be equipped to deal with the consequences when they do.
With the promise of more periods of intense rainfall in years to come, what do we need to do to protect ourselves more from flooding in future?
Living sustainably has its challenges, but none greater than in the climate and geography of Antarctica.
In Labour target constituencies in the North of England, the moratorium applies. But sites in safe Conservative areas in the South East will remain open for business.
Protests that are merely disruptive are being policed as though they are dangerous.
There are plenty other good reasons to stabilise the global population.
Europe is getting wilder as more people live in cities, but Naya’s death shows this trend may have limits.
Wales is one small country with big carbon targets but that still needs the policies to deliver them.
Housing currently accounts for almost one-fifth of the UK’s annual carbon emissions.