Environment

Between 1970 and 2016, global populations of vertebrates – birds, fish, mammals, amphibians and reptiles – declined by an average of 68%. This is a figure according to the World …

Extinction Rebellion climate activists stage a protest during a ‘peaceful disruption’ of UK parliament as lawmakers return from the summer recess, London Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere …

FILE PHOTO: The City of London financial district is seen from Primrose Hill as high air pollution obscures the skyline over London REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo Environmental factors such as air …

Still image taken from a video taken by the coastguard The Italian coastguard has been working for days to free a massive sperm whale caught in an abandoned fishing net …

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo Global temperatures will continue to warm over the next five years, and may even temporarily rise to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the World …

Matt Davey of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences samples green algae on Lagoon Island in Antarctica Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of …

A woman and her son rush to a safer place, following their evacuation from a slum area before Cyclone Amphan hits Kolkata, India, May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri A …

An environmental activist holds a banner as Greenpeace has called on Poland’s conservative government to focus on its citizens’ wellbeing and the environment rather than on the GDP growth as …

Greenland’s ice sheet shrank by more than at any time since record-taking began last year, according to a study published on Wednesday that showed the risk that climate change could …

Carbon dioxide emissions could fall by the largest amount since World War Two this year as the coronavirus outbreak brings economies to a virtual standstill, according to the chair of …