The Latest Breaking News on Environment

Wildfires that ripped through Europe this summer, forcing thousands to flee and leaving vast areas of forest in ashes, were the worst the continent has seen in decades. Scientists say climate extremes are driving the destruction. Yet forests have an incredible capacity to recover – sometimes naturally, and sometimes with…

In Punjab province, all three major rivers overflowed simultaneously, for the first time in the country’s history.

Historic legal advice from the World Court has informed a Parents for Climate pursuit of science-based emissions cuts.

Environment minister says scientific evidence did not convince government that remote island qualified

Transforming bare and compacted soil in vineyards can boost numbers of important invertebrate, say advocates

Environmental groups are warning that Norway’s Northern Lights project – the world’s first commercial offshore carbon storage scheme – could end up masking continued fossil fuel use. It began operations this week, pumping CO2 into a reservoir deep beneath the North Sea seabed.

Duration of torrential rains from Typhoon Kajiki lead to elevated landslide risk across Laos and Thailand

Nurturing everything from bacteria and fungi to worms is seen as essential to helping minimise use of chemicals and machinery

Overflowing rivers devastate communities, prompt questions about whether lessons from past floods were ever learned.