Environment & Sustainability

Data for animals, such as foxes, will be welcomed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

Santon Downham in Suffolk first area to hit threshold, recording temperatures of more than 27C for three consecutive days Parts of the UK are officially in a heatwave as temperatures soared to within reach of May records. The first area…

The Wye has become the first river in the UK to have a charter covering it from source to sea.

Hawaiʻi has some of the freshest air in the nation, but in some parts of the state hazy skies can impact tourism and public health.  Now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pumped the brakes on a multi-decade effort to…

Staff at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy are overseeing the repatriation of ‘the shiest antelope’ from western zoos to their native east African country “We are bringing the boys home,” says Ngenoh Erick Kibet, a wildlife officer at the Mount…

The population has plummeted over the past seven years as climate change triggers mass starvation in warming Arctic waters. By Blaine Harden SEATTLE—Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast…

Observers believe regulatory failures contributed to catastrophic sewage and fuel leaks in the watershed. The river was recently named the most endangered in the nation. By Aman Azhar The warning signs were years in the making. And yet, regulators failed…

The president may have backed off killing the agency outright, but his FEMA Review Council clearly sees a much reduced emergency management role for the federal government. By Amy Green, Charles Paullin When disaster strikes, those who turn to government…

Department for Transport is understood to back reducing levy, which critics have called a ‘pavement tax’ Business live – latest updates Government officials considered cutting the VAT charged on electricity used at public EV chargers from 20% to 5% at…

Global events and the climate crisis have left Britain’s food system dangerously exposed and in desperate need of an overhaul The news that the Treasury was asking UK supermarkets to cap price rises on essential foods was greeted with predictable…