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Forestry Commission suggests 1,420 hectares of woodland was created across the country - well short of annual target of 5,000.

Theresa May has suggested that the UK can pay for other countries to make carbon cuts on our behalf - but these crude, colonial equations are not enough.

The first law in the US to recognise the rights of an ecosystem is under threat.

Artists call on Sadiq Khan to end permission for Royal Opera House’s ‘BP Big Screen’ broadcasts while branded by oil company.

Hackathon with offer young people the opportunity to create real-life solutions to the plastic crisis.

'This is about forcing our politicians to confront the truth that our children are literally dying to breathe.'

Can the UK government really lead Britain to zero carbon by 2050 - and is that soon enough?

Jean-Claude Junker said he does not support raising the bloc’s 2030 climate goal, days before EU leaders are expected to discuss climate ambition.

Japan's climate legislation is heavy on tech, and light on any plans to tackle its coal dependency.

The American chestnut is being used as a PR tool for winning over public opinion on the use of biotechnology as a 'tool of conservation'.

Centre for Alternative Technology calls on UK and devolved Governments to create a Climate Emergency Action Plan targeting 2040 at the latest.

Scientists are increasingly concerned about what climate breakdown could mean for the spread of disease.

The major UK supermarkets and food companies have signed a pledge to help halve food waste by 2030.

Gore. Blair. Obama. Miliband. And now May. Why is spouting hot air about climate change the last refuge of failed, compromised politicians?

Entrances to National Portrait Gallery blocked by performance activists, preventing guests from entering the gallery.

Confusion reigns as UN Environment publishes, then retracts, an article criticising the use of carbon credits to make up for polluting activities.

Burning toxic electronic waste fills the air of Ghana's capital city with dangerous and nauseating dioxins.

Thousands take up challenge to go wild every day in June.

Call to ‘act local’ to stop plastics entering the UK’s rivers and canals & ending up in the world’s oceans.

'Today, it's us trying to stop the fossil fuel industry from wrecking our children's future. Tomorrow, it should be the government.'

Support the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve's call to Pledge for Nature! – a new local initiative to galvanise community action for nature’s recovery.

Emissions in Australia are rising, and experts warn that the current government has no policies to stop them.

Spanish utility giant Ibedrola has laid out a plan to build Europe’s largest solar power plant in the country.

Portrait artists echo call for National Portrait Gallery to act on climate emergency.