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…