At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them
Environmental audit committee calls for ban after hearing that microbeads harm marine life and enter the food chain
The world needs to move away from industrial agriculture to avoid ecological, social and human health crises, say scientists
About 5,500 glaciers could disappear or drastically retreat by the end of the century with severe impacts on farming and hydropower, say scientists
Three proposed reserves in UK waters around the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific, and Ascension Island and South Sandwich Islands in the Atlantic, would more than double the size of the world’s existing marine protected areas
Number of extremely hot days a year has increased in hundreds of cities since the 1970s years, with frequencies peaking in the last five years