Friends of the Earth Amsterdam - supported by its international organisation - is threatening to take Shell to court. But unlike any other legal challenge, they are not asking for compensation. The charity claims this will limit the company's investments in fossil fuels. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Reported incidents of fly-tipping in England have increased over the past five years - which some reports have attributed to decreases in the frequency of local authority residual waste collections. PETER JONES examines the available data to see if there really is evidence of a connection
You may think it's only twenty-something humans who are reluctant to leave the comfort of the family home for a grimy flat share with eight strangers. But new research shows that some animal species are also slow to take flight, choosing to wait until a better opportunity presents itself. CATHERINE HARTE reports
Claims by pro-pesticide groups that pesticide use has halved in the UK since 1990 are 'misleading' since they do not reflect the higher toxicity of modern products, according to campaigners. CATHERINE EARLY investigates
The campaign for Brexit said leaving the UK would involve taking back control. How can each of us take back control of our lives, and enjoy a more localised and sustainable way of living?
The number of elephants has declined by almost a third in the last decade - and as many as 55 African elephants a day are killed for their ivory. Now the UK government is getting tough on poaching by banning the sale of ivory. CATHERINE HARTE reports
Activists are calling for the government to make public its strategy on improving air quality as reports emerge that the UK could be referred to the European Court of Justice next month for failing to bring down illegal levels of air pollution. CATHERINE HARTE reports
The League Against Cruel Sports argues the conviction of the head gamekeeper of the Buckminster Estate shows that hunts are 'still chasing and killing foxes in the British countryside'. They have asked the public to sign its petition against hunting. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Humans have been growing exponentially in population, taking up space that would otherwise have been inhabited by wildlife. The amount of land untouched by humans has decreased. EO Wilson proposed a concept where half of the earth is set aside as a nature reserve. This could be the answer to many problems, argues EMILY FOLK
Artist SUSAN DERGES became one of the pioneers of camera less photography after becoming frustrated at the way 'the camera always separates the subject from the viewer'. Much of her work explores the relationship between the observer and the observed; the self and nature or the imagined and the 'real'
Activists in the US have been working to safeguard valuable environmental science data which they believe to be at risk with a climate change denier in the White House. MORGAN CURRIE and BRITT PARIS look at what has happened to the data since president Donald Trump took office
Invasive species imported - sometimes accidentally - by us humans are seen as a threat to 'pristine' and 'fragile' ecosystems. But FRED PEARCE, the legendary environmental correspondent, argues in his new book The New Wild that they could be the salvation of environments put under stress by modern development
Campaigners are rallying against two proposed new salmon farms as a Scottish parliamentary report concludes the industry as it stands could cause “irrecoverable damage” to marine ecosystems. ALEXANDRA HEAL and ELLIE O'DONNELL visit the Isle of Skye to investigate
The huldufolk have disappeared from the Faroe Islands, and with them an ancient understanding of nature. They vanished when in the 1950s when the roads and the lights appeared. Now, the local community are coming to terms with further extinctions - and a threat to their own lives from coal pollution. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reviews The Islands and the Whales, out tomorrow.
The Campaign for Rural England has been campaigning for a bottle deposit return system in the UK for a decade. Today, they applaud Michael Gove, the environment secretary, for "finally accepting" the environmental and economic case for the national scheme in his "long-awaited decision". CATHERINE HARTE reports
