Environment

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Seventeen reasons to be cheerful about our terrifyingly intense summer

The pristine Italian lake is now threatened by an invasive species, some of which grow to nearly 3m in length. No one wants to eat them – so what do you do?

Drought is hitting British farms just as war and supply shocks make our food supplies more vulnerable

The bottled water industry is booming - but that says as much about anxiety as it does hydration

A photographer who survived Greece’s deadliest blaze has turned her trauma into testimony against neglect and cover-ups

Europe is burning, food insecurity is growing and Trump and Farage are still shouting about ‘Net Stupid Zero’

The new PM has said he’s an environmentalist, but his decision on North Sea drilling suggests otherwise. Is he going to be another disappointment?

A new threat assessment says the country’s water system faces a new, more troubling level of threat – the only answer is nationalisation

We really don’t have to do it – but the law is so badly drafted that sometimes there’s only one outcome, and everyone is left devastated

The charlatans who said we had nothing to fear from Brexit now make the same claim about the world getting hotter

As a killer heatwave grips France, an argument over air conditioning has become so fierce that it could sway the national political mood.

Trump wants to change the rules around building in the great wild spaces of the US west. But if he gets his way, something fundamental will be lost that can never be won back

Faced with constant electricity blackouts and a failing grid, people in Pakistan took matters into their own hands. The result is a lesson for the rest of the world, and also a warning

It can save your life, drain your bank account and accelerate the apocalypse. But at least you won't die sweating

For Europe's farmers, longer and hotter summers contribute to the region’s biggest problem of all

The Nordic nation has been named the ‘happiest country in the world’ for the last eight years. Why?

Every year, in the Faroe Islands, pods of whales are trapped and hacked to pieces in the water. Just because it has been done for centuries does not mean it has to continue

Scientists predict that, during the next century, entire regions of the earth will run out of water. And the day that a tap is turned on and nothing comes out, it will all be too late

There are thousands of lost settlements just off coastlines around the world. Could Torcoss in Devon be next?

The documentary that asks: who owns the ground beneath our feet?

The warming climate is pushing disease-carrying insects as far north as the Arctic – with unsettling implications for Europe

The former Green Party leader says that the government wants to ignore the climate crisis and if Nigel Farage gets into power, Britain’s climate policy will become even worse

Poor Timmy got beached on the German shoreline. Then it happened again. But when the same whale washed ashore for a third time, people started asking whether something was up

You’ll never have a two-sided conversation with a cherry tree – but it probably has a far simpler sentience of its own

It’s uncomfortable to think that an authoritarian nation run by a king is more forward-looking than the UK. But when it comes to renewable energy, the kingdom is leaving everyone else in the dust

Their poll surge is partly down to Zack Polanski saying things Labour no longer does - but climate change and nature are still top of the agenda

In Singapore, the land on which houses are built is so expensive it’s worth many times more than the houses themselves. That makes farming next to impossible. So where do you get your food?

A royal massacre, a deadly quake and student protests have left a country in crisis

To succeed, you have to forget a fundamental law of walking in the Pyrenees: what comes down must go up

A civil war has been raging in the country for three years. But at the shoreline, looking at the clear blue water, the war seemed to fade. For a moment

Elephants have been trampling and eating crops planted by Kenyan farmers, and gamekeepers have been looking for a solution. Then someone noticed that elephants don’t like bees