Three out of 10 of the UK’s biggest public companies emit carbon dioxide at a rate that would contribute significantly to the climate crisis, according to analysis that shows the ... Read more

Spanish authorities are about to begin slaughtering hundreds of calves that have spent months crisscrossing the Mediterranean, said a lawyer for the cattle shippers. The 864 cattle due for slaughter ... Read more

Name: Bottled air. Age: Fresh as a daisy, sir, just bottled this morning. Appearance: Invisible, but the boutiquey bottle is very nice. And what is it exactly? Air in a ... Read more

It’s six in the morning and still dark, 24 March 2020. I wake early and, knowing the children will soon be up, decide to steal half an hour’s solitude in ... Read more

Joe Biden’s progressive nominee for interior secretary faced harsh questions from lawmakers with deep industry ties Partway through the sometimes contentious confirmation hearing for Deb Haaland as US secretary of ... Read more

Few of us would anticipate feeling an emotional connection with a swarm of ants. But in episode three of A Perfect Planet, when a colony of fire ants build a ... Read more

Republicans appear eager to derail the cabinet nomination of Deb Haaland, a Native American congresswoman who wants to conserve federal lands and slow climate change as secretary of the interior ... Read more

Without modifying human behaviour we run the risk of violent weather swings and a drastic effect on crops and ocean life The ocean circulation that keeps our relatively northern corner ... Read more

The best of the week’s wildlife pictures, including a bat rescue mission and knitted nests for injured birds Continue reading…

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Secretary general António Guterres says first assessment of promises amounts to ‘red alert for our planet’ The first assessment of countries’ pledges to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in the ... Read more