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Climate breakdown provides a more habitable environment for many types of insects - resulting in pests, crop damage and increased diseases.

Newcastle City Council has rejected Banks Mining’s application to extract 800,000 tonnes of coal from a site at Dewley Hill near Throckley.

Farms supplying supermarkets Tesco, Sainsbury’s and ASDA accused of keeping birds in appalling conditions.

Brexit is raising concerns about food supplies, from fresh food imports rotting in transit, to prices rocketing and more people going hungry more often.

Low carbon? Hydrogen greenhouse emissions globally are more than twice that of the entire UK economy.

Extinction Rebellion (XR) announces strategy to put pressure on the government in the run-up to next November’s UN climate talks.

Friends of the Earth reacts as Supreme Court rules on policy allowing third runway.

The announcement that UK will end public investments in overseas fossil fuels is welcome, but campaigners cannot take their foot off the gas.

A just transition to a low carbon economy should involve oil companies paying more tax and energy workers having more say.

The UK saw one of the biggest drops in greenhouse emissions as a result of measures to slow the coronavirus pandemic at 13 percent, new analysis suggests.

Alok Sharma, Cop26 president, warns promises not enough to put the world on track to limit global warming to 1.5C.

It’s time for the ocean to to lead the way in the fight against climate change.

We need to examine the role humans play in invasive species and how to reduce numbers.

To boycott or not to boycott? That is the question.

Bank of England forced to deny taking basic climate actions after hoax from laughtervists, the Yes Men.