Environment & Sustainability

Hundreds of wildfires in Canada and the United States have blanketed large sections of North America in dense smoke over the past week.

Poor air quality from wildfires continues to plague New York City as neighborhoods hit by thunderstorms Saturday is delivering a double dose of dangerous weather across the north-eastern US, with smoky skies from Canadian wildfires giving way to severe thunderstorms…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, issued an executive order Tuesday that puts a moratorium on the construction of large-scale data centers. The pause, which will last up to a year, is the nation’s first statewide ban on data…

Government’s food security push is said to rely on animal feed imports with vulnerability to supply chain shocks The government’s planned poultry sector growth plan is a risk to national security, campaigners have warned. Earlier this month, the environment secretary,…

The smoke isn’t going away, but where it affects air quality will shift over the next few days.

Known for tracking California wildfires, Watch Duty is moving beyond that mission. Millions of people are turning to it for help.

For decades, activists have fought to end Faroese dolphin hunts, known as the grindadráp. But hundreds are still killed each year. By Teresa Tomassoni On May 27, a massive pod of more than 400 long-finned pilot whales was spotted off…

And what people just like you are doing about it. Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Judith Enck, the founder of…

GRAND GEDEH, Liberia – In the past century, most of West Africa’s Upper Guinean rainforest has been lost to commercial agriculture, infrastructure development and logging. More than half of what’s left is in Liberia, and the remaining rainforest now faces…

CEO’s pay packet surges to £791,000 as union says public ‘sick of obscene pay’ and bosses ‘feathering own nests’ Wessex Water awarded its chief executive an above-inflation pay increase even as the company was banned from paying bonuses because of…