Scotland’s national tree planting targets have been “smashed”.
The nation’s Rural Economy Secretary, Fergus Ewing, said new planting was undertaken across 11,200 hectares in 2018, significantly surpassing the 10,000 hectare annual target.
The previous...
By 2040, most of the meat on our tables won’t come from animals.
That’s the prediction from researchers at global consultancy AT Kearney, who predict by this time, 60% of ‘meat products’ will...
Canada plans to ban a wide range of single-use plastics by 2021.
The government has not yet ruled on which exact products will disappear from shelves but notes it will work to identify...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is investing £6 million in 15 projects aimed at improving the capital’s air quality and climate emergency.
The grant from the Air Quality Fund will support four new Low...
Donald Trump’s state visit will produce as much carbon dioxide as an average British home does in 970 years.
That’s the verdict from renewable energy supplier Pure Planet, which has calculated the US...
More than 130,000 trees are to be planted in English towns and cities over the next two years as part of the nation’s battle against global heating.
The environment secretary, Michael Gove, will...
The idyllic stream that meanders through the Flemish countryside has been called the most polluted stream in Europe.
When you think of a polluted waterway, what do you envision? For me, a dark,...
Shoppers can now choose to support a broader range of social issues.
"Wear your beliefs" is a catchy tagline that appears on the TOMS website, and the company is trying to make that...
Industry lobbies are mounting a push to roll back EU clean water regulations, even though less than half of the continent’s rivers, wetlands and lakes are in a healthy state.
The lobby offensive...
A new report outlines the disastrous effects that air pollution is having on our national natural treasures.
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act, a federal law that...
One million plant and animal species are now at threat of extinction.
That’s the troubling conclusion reached in a new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), which...
Nestlé’s supply chain is now 77% deforestation-free.
In 2010 the company committed to ensuring that none of its products would be associated with the environmentally-damaging process of cutting down forests by 2020.
It says...
Washington could become the first US state to allow ‘human composting’.
The state has passed a bill that would legalise the eco-friendly process, which could turn dead bodies into two wheelbarrows full of...
The bodies of at least 28 hippopotamuses have been found in Ethiopia's national park in the southwest of the country, local media reported Monday. The semi-aquatic mammals died in the Gibe Sheleko...
New Zealand's pristine image as a haven of untouched forests and landscapes was tarnished this week by a brand new government report. The Environment Aotearoa 2019 painted a bleak image of the...
One-sixth of the carbon footprint of the average diet in the European Union can be directly linked to deforestation in tropical countries, according to a new study from researchers at Chalmers University...
