Environment

On average, wildlife populations have declined by nearly three quarters – 73% – over the 50 years to 2020. The main causes include human-driven habitat loss, pollution and climate change.

That means pylons – across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. And the battle lines are  forming. To bury or not to bury, that is the question. Nobody wants to look out on pylons.

Sir Keir Starmer says he’s confident that household energy bills will come down, although he admitted it would “take time” – as he gave more details of the Government’s new publicly owned Great British Energy firm.

Labour’s Steve Reed, who’s the shadow environment secretary, joins us in Westminster.

We spoke to environment minister Rebecca Pow.

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions will fall sooner and by more than any other major economy in the coming years.

What are the climate implications of a Trump or Biden presidency?

Can we pay someone else to take responsibility for our carbon emissions?

The death toll of the wild fire in Paradise in northern California has risen to 23, making it one of the deadliest fires in the state’s history. Two people have also died in a separate fire to the south near Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated and thousands of homes destroyed…

Three wildfires across California have caused massive destruction and claimed at least nine lives in the north of the state.

Shoppers across England who buy bottles or cans of drinks could soon be charged a surcharge which they’d get back once they return the containers. Full details of the scheme, announced by the Environment Secretary Michael Gove, will go out to consultation.  

For many, the post-Christmas period is a time of rethinking what we eat and drink. Some try a dry January while others start the year with the good intentions of eating more healthily. But what about eating more sustainably? This week the government published a 25-year plan for the environment and targeted excess packaging, while…

She was one of America’s first women ‘aquanauts’, setting a deep sea diving record in 1979. At 82, Sylvia Earle remains a passionate deep ocean explorer and campaigner for the seas. She says she still dives at least once a month otherwise she gets “dry rot.” She has just given the Natural History Museum Annual…

A south Yorkshire village will take on the Swiss petrochemical giant INEOS over a wide-ranging injunction to protect its fracking operations.

Heavy monsoon rains have deluged India, Bangladesh and Nepal in the region’s worst flooding in years. More than a thousand people have died and millions are homeless.