Environment

Somewhere in the dark, vast abyss of the Atlantic Ocean, deep beneath the waves, lies a civilisation. For centuries the Drexciyans have lived in peaceful isolation on the seabed, occupying...

The melting of ice across the planet is accelerating at a record rate, with the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets speeding up the fastest, research has found....

The plight of New York City’s oysters has by now been scrupulously recounted, starting all the way back in the 1930s, with Joseph Mitchell’s reporting for The New Yorker. It’s really a cautionary tale,...

Thousands of England’s vital flood defences were in such a state of ruin last year they would fail to protect communities from extreme weather, an investigation has found. More than...

Brazil’s indigenous leaders and human rights groups are calling on an international court to prosecute the country’s president for crimes against humanity for removing environmental safeguards in the Amazon rainforest....

Tesla chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday took to Twitter to promise a $100 million prize for development of the “best” technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions. Capturing...

President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders reversing key Donald Trump policies on climate change and the global coronavirus response, and is likely to overturn a ban on...

Cutting air pollution could prevent 50,000 premature deaths each year in Europe, a Lancet study has found. The study, the first ever to estimate premature deaths due to fine particulate...

Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene is a collection of work by 40 photojournalists from around the world, documenting the lives of animals used for research, entertainment and food. “The animals...

WASHINGTON — In a last-minute slap at President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court struck down one of his administration’s most momentous climate rollbacks on Tuesday, saying officials acted illegally...