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Scientists sound the alarm over substances such as arsenic and lead contaminating soils and entering food systems

Exclusive: Henry Dimbleby joins farmers in voicing fears of lower standards and a poor deal for British food producers

What’s not to like about an all-female celebrity crew riding a rocket into space? Quite a lot, as it turns out.

The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn’t just about intense rainfall. It was a symptom of recent land use change which has occurred rapidly in the city, turning it into a sprawling urban settlement without the necessary drainage infrastructure.

President Donald Trump has said he wants to reverse decades of regulations about energy efficiency in American household appliances, claiming doing so will provide Americans with “freedom to choose” products that meet their needs.

The UN’s International Maritime Organization has just agreed to start charging ships for the greenhouse gases they emit. After decades of ineffective incremental tweaks to shipping emissions, the breakthrough came on April 11 at a summit in London. It makes shipping the first industry subject to a worldwide – and…

Cattle moved between ranches, allowing meat from farms linked to deforestation to end up on supermarket shelves

As the first climate summit in the Amazon approaches, a gulf is opening between what the area’s farming lobby wants, and what the world needs

Brazilian ranchers in Pará and Rondônia say JBS can not achieve stated goal of deforestation-free cattle

From the rock sea-spurrey, which appears to grow out of solid rock, to the slender centaury that lives on a landslip, these plants exist where they do for good reason

Australians waste around 7.68 million tonnes of food a year. This costs the economy an estimated A$36.6 billion and households up to $2,500 annually.