‘No Plan B’: Water companies fear pollution crackdown will stop them spreading sewage sludge on...

Extreme weather cost $2tn globally over past decade, report finds

US suffered greatest economic losses, report commissioned by International Chamber of Commerce finds, followed by China and India

US oil industry eagerly awaits Donald Trump’s deregulatory push

Despite US president-elect’s promises, production is unlikely to surge as Wall Street demands returns over growth

JBS broke its supply chain rules buying cows from deforesters of Brazil's wetlands

JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, bought cattle more than 100 times from a farm that was sanctioned and fined almost £2m for illegally destroying Brazil's vulnerable wetlands.

Climate change is making extreme downpours in Spain heavier and more likely, scientists say

Human-caused climate change made Spain’s rainfall about 12% heavier and doubled the likelihood of a storm as intense as this week’s deluge of Valencia, according to a rapid but partial analysis...

Sweden abolishes tax on plastic bags despite warnings usage could rise

Levy that reduced usage by more than three-quarters in four years fell victim to rightwing culture wars, say critics

World will miss Paris climate target as nitrous oxide rises, report says

Failing to curb emissions of nitrous oxide will make it impossible to meet the main goal of the Paris climate agreement to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the first major...

JBS broke its supply chain rules buying cows from deforesters of Brazil's wetlands

JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, bought cattle more than 100 times from a farm that was sanctioned and fined almost £2m for illegally destroying Brazil's vulnerable wetlands.

Spain’s deadly floods and droughts are two faces of the climate crisis coin

Scientists say violent weather battering Mediterranean is a harbinger of what the rest of Europe can soon expect

JBS broke its supply chain rules buying cows from deforesters of Brazil's wetlands

JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, bought cattle more than 100 times from a farm that was sanctioned and fined almost £2m for illegally destroying Brazil's vulnerable wetlands.

At least 95 people dead in Spain’s worst floods in three decades

Soldiers aid search for dozens still missing as prime minister warns extreme weather may not be over

Japan's Mount Fuji remains snowless later in year than ever recorded before

Japan's highest mountain typically gets snow by early October, but there has been unusually warm weather this year.

Air pollution deaths falling after closure of coal plants

The Lancet has found that deaths from air pollution are falling worldwide, but the impacts of climate change on health are hitting harder than ever before