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Sadiq Khan is inviting Londoners, schools and local community groups to apply for thousands of free trees.

The Conservative party conference discussed taxes on vehicle fuel, the upcoming waste strategy and the future of chemicals legislation after Brexit.

The European Commission has reportedly given up on plans to raise the EU’s 2030 carbon emissions target.

Mining company accused of extensive human rights abuse and environmental damage in India delists from London Stock Exchange.

Owen Paterson MP, climate denier and hard-Brexiter, told the jeering crowd “we are the mainstream of the Conservative party'.

Global Leaders at the Paris summit in 2015 tasked the IPCC to compile a report of all known science on the impacts of climate change. That report is now ready to be released

The government has quietly abandoned efforts to meet a longstanding target to improve England’s most important wildlife sites

Tory MP calls for billions to be spent protecting and restoring nature.

Millions of pheasants go unsold and uneaten after being killed, according to a new report from Savills

On Tuesday 25 July 2017, four protestors stopped a convoy of lorries going to a fracking site in Lancashire writes MAT HOPE

A future with net zero greenhouse gases is technically and economically possible, with a stronger economy, a more resilient society, and higher levels of wellbeing, according to a new report.

Planet Earth was habitable as early as 4.1 billion years ago - 700 million years earlier than the first fossil. Shame it has to end soon.

Twitter could offer a mine of viable data for ecological researchers.

The Welsh Government will no longer lease public land for pheasant shooting, following a long and public campaign by the League Against Cruel Sports and Animal Aid. MARIANNE BROOKER reports

Ecologist readers can get 20 percent off entry to the Ethical Consumer conference on 12 October. CATHERINE EARLY reports

The Labour party’s manifesto prioritises climate change, air quality and biodiversity decline, arguing that strong environmental policy is a social justice issue. CATHERINE EARLY reports

The infrastructure supporting the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet is no longer ‘fit for purpose’ warns the Public Accounts Committee. MARIANNE BROOKER reports

A team of scientists has discovered that basking sharks can jump as fast and as high out of the water as their cousin, the famously powerful and predatory great white shark. MARIANNE BROOKER reports

Chris Packham called the People's Walk for Wildlife in Central London after growing frustrated with environmental charities and despairing at the loss of biodiversity. And he has only just begun. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports

Shale gas company Cuadrilla has been given the green light to carry out fracking at a second well at its site at Preston New Road, Lancashire. CATHERINE EARLY reports

Climate science denial campaign group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has apparently been left with a hole in its finances after a major donor did not renew its funding, writes MAT HOPE

Farm subsidies will be based on environmental and animal welfare improvements, rather than the total amount of land farmed, government confirms in new legislation. CATHERINE EARLY reports