Environment

Oil and gas rigs in the North Sea, where the government has approved an enormous new oil and gas field.

Government greenlights climate-wrecking Rosebank oil and gas field

Hannah Sharland , 27 September 2023

Ofwat water regulator

Water companies ordered by regulator Ofwat to cut bills due to poor performance

Alex/Rose Cocker , 27 September 2023

Sign outside a TotalEnergies refinery.

TotalEnergies gears up for greenwashing at its investor day

Hannah Sharland , 26 September 2023

Cerrejón mine, Colombia. Former shareholder Anglo American is a member of the TNFD taskforce and has the highest number of rights allegations to its name.

The corporations making up the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure hold a prolific record of ecological and human rights violations

Hannah Sharland , 26 September 2023

Palm oil plantation. Members of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) hold rights allegations for high-risk deforestation commodities like oil palm.

Green groups call out new nature disclosure framework as another exercise in corporate greenwashing

Sign for public footpaths in Chigwell

New research highlights strong correlations between race and class and accessibility to public footpaths

United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres at the 2023 Climate Ambition Summit.

Sunak proves why the UN was right to snub the UK PM for its Climate Ambition Summit

A tree with a sawn off branch. Scientists have discovered entire branches of the "Tree of Life" have gone extinct.

New extinction study should be a wake-up call to end the Global North’s exploitation of nature

Hannah Sharland , 20 September 2023

Combine harvester in a field. The EU's food systems are driving biodiversity loss.

Food systems study reveals the EU’s major role in the biodiversity crisis

Hannah Sharland , 19 September 2023

Police arrest Animal Rising member at Scottish Grand National horse racing event

Twenty members of Animal Rising convicted of Scottish Grand National disruption

Glen Black , 18 September 2023

A tractor spraying some pesticides

‘The toxic poster child of Europe’: the UK’s controversial pesticide policies

Monica Piccinini , 13 September 2023

The ocean. A group of small island states have taken a case to a UN ocean tribunal to address greenhouse gas emissions in the context of the UN Law of the Sea.

Small island states call out rich nations’ climate responsibility in historic ocean tribunal hearing

Hannah Sharland , 12 September 2023

Virunga National Park, where the DRC is opening up new oil and gas blocks.

Major insurance companies shun new oil and gas in the biodiverse Congo Basin – it could be a death knell for big oil in the DRC

Hannah Sharland , 12 September 2023

Cut down tree.

A tree ‘massacre’ in Essex reveals the rot at the root of one of our leading conservation charities

Hannah Sharland , 7 September 2023

A Taylor Wimpey construction site.

Developer Taylor Wimpey is destroying protected trees – but it’s no stranger to ecocide

Hannah Sharland , 7 September 2023

Hawthorn tree on a grassy slope.

An ecological consultant has helped Taylor Wimpey sign off over 40 protected trees for the chop

Hannah Sharland , 7 September 2023

Employee wearing a Rio Tinto helmet.

Campaigners call out a polluting Rio Tinto mine project damaging Madagascan communities

Hannah Sharland , 7 September 2023