The Latest Breaking News on Environment

EU’s Copernicus monitoring service hails ‘reassuring sign’ of progress observed this year in hole’s size and duration

Shrimp soundtrack will be played underwater to lure baby oysters in program aimed at fighting algal blooms

Meanwhile, Iran grapples with one of worst droughts and temperatures fall 10C below normal in US

Some 600 experts arrived in Paris on Monday to begin work on the next major UN climate report. The five-day gathering gets underway in the shadow of comments by US President Donald Trump, who deems the science around global warming to be a "hoax".

Expert warns large pipeline of potential projects will not deliver required energy capacity unless companies make final investments

Blakeney Point, Norfolk: The old steamer, called Yankee, has long been abandoned on the shingle, dwindling in the elements. I take the four-mile walk to visit

Exclusive: Pollution targets set out alongside nature recovery projects to allay concerns over housebuilding

A team from Plastic Odyssey and Unesco have carried out a mission to map plastic waste, test removal methods and establish monitoring protocols on the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles. It is one of 51 marine areas listed as a World Heritage Site, increasingly under threat from plastic pollution.

Use of 8m pounds of antibiotics and antifungals a year leads to superbugs and damages human health, lawsuit claims

Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects

Labour knows it needs to win over the ‘sea wall’ cohort of coastal voters in the next election. But as anger over inequality grows, time is running out