Environment

Assistant warden Tara McEvoy-Wilding said 2026 had been eye-opening and the "brown, sad and crispy" vegetation was a visual reminder of how dry it had been."This year feels like the real first year people have been noticing climate change,"...

Protecting all heritage sites from the impact of climate change "just may not be possible," according to a National Trust manager.Justin Scully, manager of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, said extreme heat, heavy rainfall and wildfire risk were already...

The presenter has previously spoken about how his childhood in Surrey prompted his love of nature.He said his parents took on a smallholding in their 30s, adding: "We filled it with rescue animals, about which we had no idea,...

It used to be considered against the law in America to starve a member of an endangered species to death or harm it by destroying its home.That’s changing as the federal government chips away...

Climate change is causing billions of dollars’ worth of damage every year from floods, fires, droughts and other consequences of a rapidly warming planet.Dozens of states, cities, counties and tribes have sued major oil companies....

Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal communities around the world. Today, about 1 billion people live in coastal areas; about 100 million live...

Federal prosecutors recently described an interstate criminal enterprise with all the trappings of organized crime: clandestine warehouses, money laundering and stolen goods transported across state lines. The mid-September 2026 announcement stated that 19 defendants faced...

J-PAL North America, a regional office of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), convened the second cohort of the Climate Action Learning Lab this spring with 17 climate leaders from four U.S. government agencies and nonprofit organizations....

From the air, Wainwright, Alaska, looks like a perfectly stable band of homes and roads between the Chukchi Sea and a vast, flat tundra. But just below the surface, the frozen ground that this town...

In 2023, the International Energy Agency predicted that by 2028 the world’s oil companies would produce more oil than people wanted to buy. Prices responded to that and similar projections of slowing oil demand, dropping...