The Latest Breaking News on Environment

Social media post led to discovery that samplers measuring toxic particles in air can also detect fragments of DNA

Hitchin, Hertfordshire: We’re learning more and more about the UK’s wintering blackcaps. This summer one is just for pleasure

A new polar project compared samples with those collected more than a century ago by by Scott, along with voyages led by Shackleton and Borchgrevink

As UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting.

Release of 20 lynx over several years into Kielder Forest area would create population of about 50 animals

Bridport, Dorset: The brilliantly coloured Jersey tiger moths have started to appear – and they’re making their way north, helped in part by a few unkept gardens

Soundproofing buffers at tunnel mouths to be rolled out on China’s latest magnetic levitation train prototype

A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying, largely barren island.

France’s top court will rule on Thursday whether to approve a controversial law that could bring back a banned pesticide. More than two million people have signed a petition calling for the legislation to be scrapped, while doctors, scientists and environmental groups have raised serious health concerns.