Alex Thomson , Chief Correspondent

The government has announced a rapid acceleration in its targets to reduce greenhouse emissions.

They’re essential to the future of our environment and the fight against climate change, but a new report warns that the UK’s native woodlands have reached a crisis point, with just a handful in good condition. The survey, by the Woodland Trust, has identified a range of threats, from development to pollution and imported pests…

The Duke of Edinburgh spent much of his retirement at Wood Farm in Sandringham, where he had taken overall charge of managing the entire estate since 1952 and put conservation at the heart of his efforts.

Yorkshire is quite literally going back to its roots – with the biggest tree planting operation ever undertaken in England going on right now. A third of Broughton Hall estate near Skipton will be returned to nature.

Tens of thousands of people, like teenager Shashikala from Sri Lanka, died from poisoning by a lethal pesticide made in the UK. Hundreds of secret documents and a whistleblower raise questions about whether manufacturer Syngenta put profit before people.

When we want to know how well economies are doing, there’s one measure that’s been used around the world for more than three quarters of a century – GDP. But in the face of looming climate catastrophe, is there a better way to assess the state of our economies? The United Nations is voting on…

The National Trust outlined a ‘hazard map’ which shows how 30% of their heritage sites are at risk from the impacts of climate change like flooding.

With time running out in a climate crisis, what did Rishi Sunak actually deliver today to put the UK on track to carbon zero by 2050?

The UN warns the commitments of countries across the globe to tackle global warming are ‘nowhere close’ targets.

The electricity generator Drax has scrapped controversial plans to build Europe’s largest gas power plant at its North Yorkshire site.

Today the UN Security Council discussed climate change, with the Prime Minister telling delegates that the rising global temperature poses a real threat to global security.

Some of Scotland’s leading football clubs have been urged to apologise and pay compensation for historical child sex abuse stretching back to the 1970s. An independent report, commissioned by the Scottish Football Association, heard accounts from dozens of victims involving abuse by coaches, team officials and scouts. It says the young players were badly let…

Some of the most vulnerable people in the UK can’t access tens of millions of pounds of their own money.

Cumbria County Council has said it will reconsider plans to build a coal mine near the site of a disused colliery near Whitehaven.

The UK recorded the coldest night since 2010 last night with temperatures plummeting to -16.7C at Altnaharra in northern Scotland.