The Latest Breaking News from Environment

Environment ministers across Australia have resolved to prioritise work to stop lithium-ion batteries ending up in landfills and sparking dangerous fires.

The government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill has been widely criticised for potentially handing too much power to three cabinet ministers, and raising the risk of conflicts of interest and political interference in environmental management.

It is very difficult to take Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s nuclear announcement seriously. His proposal for seven nuclear power stations is, at present, legally impossible, technically improbable, economically irrational and environmentally irresponsible.

Despite two days and hundreds of voices from along the Murray Darling Basin, the future shape of the basin plan is as clear as mud.

Japan and New Zealand have agreed in principle on an intelligence sharing pact as their leaders shared concern about the increasingly challenging security environment in the region, including closer ties between Russia and North Korea

US government acknowledges the harmful impact of damming on Pacific Northwest tribes, signaling progress in addressing environmental and cultural injustices.

After the election, Labour must end the attacks on a watchdog simply trying to protect what little wildlife we have left, says campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole

The town of Geel, in Belgium's Flanders region, is home to a surprising centuries-old tradition, where patients with mental health issues live with host families. It's said to date back to the 14th century, when the city attracted pilgrims praying to Dymphna, the local patron saint of mental illness –…

In today’s newsletter: The inequality between fee-paying schools and the rest in terms of green space has been described as ‘staggering’. Why is the disparity so big, and what impact is it having on children?