Emily Beament

Environment Department closes sustainable farming incentive (SFI) that pays farmers in England for 'public goods' like insecticide-free farming, wildflower strips and managing ponds.

World’s fungi at risk from agriculture, deforestation and urban sprawl – experts.

Oxfam research shows richest one per cent of people around the world responsible for 16 per cent of global carbon emissions.

RSPB is highlighting some of the successes secured in 2024 to show what can be achieved with conservation efforts – even as it warns of the challenges nature faces.

UN climate talks start following deadly floods, record heat and Trump’s return.

Call for £1.9bn a year to help oil and gas workers move into clean energy.

Nature is in ‘free fall’ as world faces dangerous tipping points, experts warn.

British Government urged to commit to rewilding 30 per cent of Britain’s land and seas by 2030.

Drought is top threat for UK nature refuges as climate changes, charities warn.

Political parties have been urged to toughen up the regulation of toxic chemicals, the “sleeping giant of pollution”, which can harm people and wildlife.

Activists erect ‘headstones’ by UK Parliament to highlight deaths from cold homes.

The UK has left an ‘outdated’ treaty that could penalise shift to net zero.

Making fossil fuel firms pay to clean up carbon could help curb climate change.

UK sees annual temperatures average more than 10C for first time.

Experts question industry signals sent by government’s new coal mine approval.

UK urged to quit treaty that ‘puts fossil fuel interests before climate action’.

Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general, opens the COP27 conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt with 'we are in the fight of our lives – and we are losing...'

Rishi Sunak, the UK Prime Minister, confirmed he will in fact attend the UN talks in Sharm El Sheikh that start on Sunday.

Record leap in methane levels as greenhouse gases reach new highs in 2021.

World heading for ‘climate catastrophe’ as countries’ plans fail to deliver – UN.

Rishi Sunak, the latest UK prime minister, restores fracking ban in move hailed as ‘victory for common sense’.

The combined impacts of climate and oil and gas prices have driven up average UK household food bills by a total of £11.4 billion.

Lack of government action on waste crime could see rise in fly-tipping, illegal waste sites, and evasion of landfill tax, a new report reveals.

A decade of 'diminishing' regulation funding puts pressure on water pollution enforcement.