Environment & Sustainability

The government faces calls to give the Climate Change Committee a bigger role in advising on airport expansion.

Researchers mapping how red squirrels would fare under climate breakdown scenarios found ‘a natural ability to adapt’ Red squirrels are thriving on the Isle of Wight where they have enough food and a suitable habitat to support a population that…

Exclusive: Officials say they have been told to do as little as legally possible to prevent housing approvals Ministers have told officials at the Environment Agency to wave through planning applications with minimal resistance, as part of a major regulatory…

Research which began with conversations round a campfire and went on to examine 7m gene variants shows how people survive with little water and a meat-rich diet A collaboration between African and American researchers and a community living in one…

Captive animals sometimes need a transfusion, but the typical approach to blood banking isn’t practical for zoos and aquariums. One veterinarian is testing a solution.

Wildlife officials had to rescue, relocate brook trout after Bottomley Properties cleared hundreds of acres of mountain forest for grazing. By Lisa Sorg ALLEGHANY COUNTY, N.C.—One of the most prominent cattle farmers in North Carolina has reached a financial settlement…

Politicians tout its mild summers. Its Puerto Rican population has grown since Hurricane Maria. But can Western New York retain its insulation from the worst outcomes of climate change in the future? By Finya Swai, Erin Drumm BUFFALO, N.Y.—At a…

Longtime Arizona water manager Ted Cooke’s nomination faced pushback from politicians and water officials in other states who feared he would bring bias to the agency’s oversight of the river. By Alex Hager, KUNC The Trump Administration’s nominee to run…

A landmark opinion from the United Nations International Court of Justice has ruled that rising sea levels caused by climate change do not require countries to redraw their maritime borders. Small island nations, among the most vulnerable to sea level…

Every spring, investors flock to Omaha, Nebraska, for Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting, where Warren Buffett holds court. Insiders call it Woodstock for Capitalists, and CNBC covers it with the fervor of Fox Sports on Super Bowl Sunday.  Last year’s…