Environment

In What We Can Know, our greatest living novelist sees the UK slip beneath the waves – and looks for light in a drowned world

A devastating earthquake hit Afghanistan, and the call for aid has gone out. But if it’s all being stolen by the Taliban, what’s the point?

While railing against net zero in public, Reform's deputy leader has been investing in solar panels

Panama, undeserving of its media silence, is still humming with creatures great and small

If its value was that it was greatly appreciated by so many people, do the individual trees being felled largely unseen in Brazilian rainforests count for less?

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Nationalisation is the way out of this crisis - but politicians aren’t brave enough to do it

The cool, damp climate of the south-west of Ireland has become a surprising summer refuge for weary travellers escaping the heat of Europe

After two years of droughts, farmers are being forced to find new, innovative ways to grow ingredients for the classic Italian dish

The Greens’ leader wants to fight Reform using left wing populism. But if he lets in the Corbynistas, will they ruin everything – again?

It's time for the country to change its entire approach to the weather

As temperatures rise and insurance markets get spooked, voters and populist politicians still want to spend less on the environment

The human cost of air pollution is too high to ignore. But, how do we tackle those individuals who won't change their ways?

Experiments to combat climate change using ‘iron fertilisation’ to boost plankton growth, first proposed in the 1980s, remain unproven and contentious

How São Paulo’s ‘Big Worm’ went from urban scar to public space – and what it tells us about city futures

A populist pushback is fuelled by voter scepticism that our global leaders can ever crack the climate crisis

The photographer’s images of man’s ongoing mission to tame and commercialise the wild are a spectacle

Sometimes controversial, but never less than beautiful, the late Salgado leaves behind his images, and a legacy of conservation

The 81-year-old former chancellor claimed it prevented him from attending a parliamentary inquiry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern over his role in the Nord Stream 2 saga

Enzo Suma’s Archeoplastica project turns pollution into art shaped by the sea – to make a point

Landowners' pitch to ban enjoyment of the great outdoors is rightly slapped down by Supreme Court

Conspiracy theorists blame vapour trails on a strange experiment endorsed by Keir Starmer. And the craziest thing is… they’re half right

President Milei is selling out his own country and its indigenous people along with it

As the world has gone mad around us, the simpler things in life have become all the more important – like birdwatching

Communities whose lives have been shaped and scarred by mining are now shaken by the prospects of a green transition

The country buys nuclear energy from France and other European countries. Italians just don’t want the power plants in their backyard

The Mayor of London pushed ahead with an idea he truly believed in and it worked – Labour politicians might want to take note

The rapid speed at which the Adamello is melting shouldn’t come as a shock; the past two years have been unbearably hot in Italy

European nations need to be vigilant and forward-thinking to prevent further disaster

The European turtle dove became a symbol of man’s escalating war against nature. Then against the odds, something wonderful happened

Baku has been a spectacle of greed and entitlement. A binding agreement on phasing out fossil fuels would be better

The Spanish press are asking pointed questions about the lacklustre warning system and slow crisis response