The Latest Breaking News on Environment

Letters: Cheryl Thornett and Rod Weston stand up for the vegetable and find more uses for it than as Halloween lanterns

The UK government has given the go-ahead to carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) schemes worth £22 billion (US$28.6 billion). Critics are insisting that this technology – which involves capturing carbon as it is emitted or taking it back out of the atmosphere, then pumping it into rocks deep underground…

Researchers find pollution in inside spaces – mainly from gas cooking – had greatest effect on those with the disease

Community energy group hopes for local electricity trading as part of its ‘better system’ of supply and ownership

River Wear, Durham City: The bane of hop pickers, the pale tussock moth larva isn’t normally found precariously wandering along a bridge

Thinktank says government should set up arm’s-length company to buy Harland & Wolff site, which is in administration

Survey of young people aged 16-25 from all US states shows concerns across political spectrum

Today the perilous state of the environment is often in the news. Many stories describe how Earth is being damaged by human beings and discuss ways to prevent this.

Fires have long been a natural part of forest ecosystems, but something is changing. Our new study shows that forest fires have become more widespread and severe amid global heating, particularly in the high northern latitudes such as Canada and Siberia where fires are most sensitive to hotter, drier conditions.