Aggressive Big Oil lobbying has secured enormous government giveaways so extensive that the largest US oil and gas companies now pay more in taxes to foreign governments than to the US Treasury.

Banning Alternative for Germany, a far-right party, might seem undemocratic but Germany’s constitution allows such prohibitions to prevent a repeat of Nazism.

Leaders worry the oil and gas lobby has corrupted COP28. Amid rumors of fossil fuel deals being made at the summit, Vice President Al Gore speaks out.

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Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found. More than 95% of the African penguins in two of the most important breeding colonies, on Dassen Island and Robben Island, died between 2004 and 2012. The breeding penguins probably starved to death during the moulting period, according to the paper, which said the climate crisis and overfishing were driving declines. Continue reading...

Federal water officials say they’ll increase pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a move that state officials say will harm salmon and reduce urban water supplies.

Giant biomass plant reveals burning of wood pellets made 9% of UK’s electricity in July, its largest ever monthly share

Dr Peter Knapp – air quality scientist, journalist and filmmaker – provides a damning response to the Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan, which was published yesterday. The important and nece...

As a toxic haze continues to shroud the Indian capital, protesters say lack of government action has pushed the city into a state of physical and emotional exhaustion. Stuti Mishra reports on the grou...

Australia is about to ban young teens from most platforms. The rest of the world is watching.

Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

When the United Nations warned that the world is failing to curb methane emissions, the message went far beyond climate science

A groundbreaking mapping project revealing a cocktail of environmental risks posed by thousands of Europe's landfills.

Thousands of landfills across Europe lie in flood-risk zones, areas which could endanger drinking water or sensitive conservation sites, Investigate Europe and Watershed Investigations can reveal in t...