Environment & Sustainability

The war in the Middle East has brought renewed attention to Britain’s vulnerability to energy price shocks.

Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of life.

UK’s Rare Breeds Survival Trust says calf numbers of white park cattle last year were less than two-thirds of 2022 level An ancient breed of cattle whose ancestors are thought to have accompanied the Celts as they were pushed to…

Some biographies are built around revelation. Others proceed by accumulation, assembling a life from fragments that resist easy interpretation. Miriam Horn’s Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller falls into the latter category. It takes as…

The nature corridor would stretch from the Lee Valley Regional Park to the Thames via Tower Hamlets.

Ed Miliband has a rare chance to do for the climate what Nye Bevan did for health: create something future generations will be proud of It looks unlikely that Labour will emerge as the largest party at the next general…

Exclusive: Report finds Natural England has created no new SSSIs, which protect areas from development, since 2023 The government’s wildlife watchdog for England is failing to save nature because it has stopped giving protection to rare wildlife and habitats, according…

In 2025, birders and scientists found five “lost” bird species that had gone undocumented for a decade or more. As Mongabay’s Spoorthy Raman reports, these findings have helped reduce the total number on the global “Lost Birds List” from 163…

For much of the late 20th century, oil development in the Ecuadorian Amazon proceeded with little restraint. Wastewater and drilling residues were discharged into rivers or left in open pits. Forest was cleared. Communities downstream relied on contaminated water for…

Even hospitals are drilling wells as the region’s reservoirs reach disastrously low levels and ratings agencies downgrade the city’s outlook. By Dylan Baddour Without a shift in weather patterns, the City of Corpus Christi expects to enact emergency restrictions on…