Environment & Sustainability

Avon Wildlife Trust says it will transform the 44-acre farm into a haven for birds, bats and newts.

Move comes as fourth heatwave of summer intensifies, edging temperatures in some areas close to 40C Italy will place all of its 27 major cities, from Trieste in the north to Palermo in the south, under the highest heat alert…

Billionaire Aliko Dangote’s choice of Lamu, Kenya, for his oil refinery project, estimated to cost $17 billion, has elicited mixed reactions, with environmental activists warning of its potential risks to the local ecosystem and the community’s livelihoods, while the government…

Cardinal Pedro Barreto received death threats and harassment during his almost 20-year campaign against a US mining company’s operations in the Andes A Peruvian cardinal who received a barrage of death threats when he challenged the firm behind a toxic…

The small fire on Tuesday comes nearly two weeks after the heathland fire that burned for five days.

Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation One hunger striker in an immigration detention center was force-fed for almost six months. One detained immigrant with mental health…

In April 2026, Malaysia enacted an absolute ban on the import of electronic waste, moving to end its role as a primary destination for the world’s hazardous electrical and electronic scrap. The regulation aims to shutter a black market of…

Looking for respite from European heat waves, summer tourists are flocking to the diplomatic hub. But city leaders are wary of overcrowding.

New research shows early-warning species is on the move, expanding or contracting geographic range and changing altitude Butterflies, often considered a “sentinel of change”, are on the move across every continent they inhabit, shifting to survive as global heating reshapes…

Used to chronicling other people’s vacation disasters, a travel reporter faced the new normal on her own long-awaited family trip.