Emily Beament

Making fossil fuel firms pay to clean up carbon could help curb climate change.

UK sees annual temperatures average more than 10C for first time.

Experts question industry signals sent by government’s new coal mine approval.

UK urged to quit treaty that ‘puts fossil fuel interests before climate action’.

Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general, opens the COP27 conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt with 'we are in the fight of our lives – and we are losing...'

Rishi Sunak, the UK Prime Minister, confirmed he will in fact attend the UN talks in Sharm El Sheikh that start on Sunday.

Record leap in methane levels as greenhouse gases reach new highs in 2021.

World heading for ‘climate catastrophe’ as countries’ plans fail to deliver – UN.

Rishi Sunak, the latest UK prime minister, restores fracking ban in move hailed as ‘victory for common sense’.

The combined impacts of climate and oil and gas prices have driven up average UK household food bills by a total of £11.4 billion.

Lack of government action on waste crime could see rise in fly-tipping, illegal waste sites, and evasion of landfill tax, a new report reveals.

A decade of 'diminishing' regulation funding puts pressure on water pollution enforcement.

Delaying or diluting payments for farmers to help nature recover would be a significant missed economic opportunity, the government has been warned.

UN World Meteorological Organisation: 'Without ambitious action, the physical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change will be devastating.'

UK Government delays decision on Cumbria coal mine amid political turmoil.

The installation of home insulation measures 'fell off a cliff' a decade ago, the government's own climate advisors state.

Badly insulated homes costing poor families extra £250 a year, say councils.

Every heatwave ‘more intense and more likely’ because of climate breakdown.

England could face around 35cm of sea level rise by 2050 and is nearly certain to see close to 1m sea level rise by the end of the century.

Officials investigate claims peatland sites described as England’s “national rainforests” have been burned on grouse moors despite a ban.

Half of British butterflies are now on the Red List for Great Britain - classed as either threatened or near threatened.

The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill creates new category of gene edited to regulate it separately from genetic modification (GM).

New records set for rising seas and heating oceans in 2021, UN report shows.

Pollution is the world’s largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death, a Lancet Planetary Health report warns.