Browsing: Environment

At least 17 people have been confirmed dead in Bali, Indonesia, after the island’s worst flooding in more than a decade.Torrential rain last Tuesday and Wednesday…

It’s the last native mammal on the island, but the “incredibly cute and fluffy” Christmas Island flying fox is critically endangered with no recovery plan and…

The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday a rule to end a mandatory program requiring 8,000 facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions – an…

A Donald Trump-backing billionaire has been stopped from transporting water in tankers to fill a lake on his Wiltshire estate during a drought.Southern Water has told…

7. Speckled wood: 53,423 sightingsThe number of speckled wood butterflies, with their distinctive yellow specks, has seen a similar number of sightings compared with last year,…

Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia are beautiful tourist destinations, but off their coasts is a darker hidden reality, where overfishing and unregulated catches are rife and…

“Climate change is happening,” said Herbert Crossman, a pensioner from Harrow. “I don’t think we need to bring the country to its knees to stop it,…

Efforts to improve the climate could reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution in the US by about 6,000 people a year by 2030,…

The NSW environment watchdog sat on a report for four years linking elevated levels of lead in children’s blood to current mining, and promised mining companies…

Australia’s environment minister, Murray Watt, has backed the creation of “no-go zones” where development will be banned in some places under a revamped nature law, but…