Planning for the growing risks of flooding that threatens the UK’s cities, towns and villages is underway, but progress is too slow.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Environment – Articles, Analysis, Comment
Displaying 2276 - 2300 of 4466 articles
Brazil’s deforestation rate is back up. The UN Security Council has three main options.
At best, planting trees won’t be enough on its own to slow climate change. At worst, it’s a dangerous distraction.
Cities make their own climate, so such like-for-like comparisons are too simplistic.
Festival-goers increasingly treat tents as disposable, imagining they are put to good use when discarded. They’re wrong.
The Committee on Climate Change criticises slow progress, but has little to say about how to reconfigure government to make climate action a priority.
The species which surround a tree in a forest make up the character of its neighbourhood. Good neighbours can make forests resilient to climate change.
Seeing wild animals can be the highlight of a holiday, and help pay for conservation efforts too, but we have to respect the animals.
Climate change is accelerating and species are dying out at a record rate. Experts imagine how inviting nature into our lives could help.
Universities play a significant role in the high and rising air travel footprint – and they need to do more about it.
New report reveals big cats are kept in awful conditions. But the link to poaching in the wild is not clear cut.
Britain’s councils are cutting roadside verges less often to allow vibrant wildflower meadows to bloom.
The food system urgently needs to be redesigned if we are to avoid crisis.
Huge survey shows more than 80% of British people support for solar, but just 18% want fracking.
Could our best shot at stopping climate catastrophe be restoring forests on a massive scale?
Wildflowers, bees and butterflies – your lawn is a vibrant ecosystem waiting to be unleashed.
Here’s what we already do – and don’t – know about the link to climate change.
Migration offers a fix for the islands ‘drowning’ as a consequence of the climate crisis – but are there better alternatives?
They swim, they eat, they multiply.
Having different coloured eyes is quite unusual, but it happens in many species throughout the animal kingdom.
A new study lays out what must happen immediately for any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
Japan’s exit from the IWC should spur on more global cooperation on environmental issues, not less.
A key tool for capturing and storing carbon may have been hiding in plain sight all along.
It’s not just the ocean we need to worry about – plastic is accumulating in the world’s rivers, too.
Locals accuse a fishmeal factory of polluting their waters.