Parliament has begun to discuss its single largest bill ever, on the much-criticised High Speed 2 project and its consequences on landscapes and communities. The hybrid...
New roads and housing developments require “trade-offs” between economic and environmental benefits, the environment secretary Owen Paterson has said. Biodiversity offsetting – where infrastructure developers commit...
A specially created website that encourages people to rate green spaces could help improve local parks and similar urban environments, according to a new report. The...
The Woodland Trust has said there is a clear need for “resilient woodland” in the UK, after beginning an operation to fell 200 hectares of Welsh...
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek 8 March 1982
Climate change could lead to a greener Greenland by the end of the century, scientists have said. As temperatures in the Arctic rise, plant life in...
Pope Francis has urged the Brazilian government to treat the Amazon as a “garden” and to help protect its environment and native people. As 3 million...
Logging in the Congo basin has slowed, a new study has suggested. The research, published in in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B journal,...
This is the fourth cartoon in our B******* as usual… series, in which we share work by Manchester-based cartoonist Polyp. For more information on Polyp, see...
As the world celebrates World Oceans Day, a new study has suggested that deforestation, more so than global warming, can put coral reefs at risk because...
The Woodland Trust has announced its plans to restore 52,000 hectares of damaged ancient woodland, and warned that some of the UK’s most treasured trees are...
Critics of renewables are often given powerful platforms to voice their opinions. This vocal minority skew the debate, especially when polls suggest the majority of the...
UN member states will meet in Istanbul over the coming days to discuss the role of forests in ensuring social and economic development. With the ‘Earth’s...
After kicking off this series profiling environmentally-minded politicians yesterday with Marina Silva of Brazil, Charlie Wood writes about Haïdar El Ali, the Senegalese ecology minister, who...
The news this week that Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has signalled an end to its deforestation activities has been welcomed by environmental and campaigning organisations alike....