Environment

Climate, ecology, sustainability, biodiversity, and energy transition.

All Climate Ecology Sustainability Biodiversity Energy Transition

Briefing: EPA Approves Sale of Higher Ethanol Fuel in Bid to Lower Gas Prices

Strategic angle: Higher blend has been prohibited in warm weather due to smog concerns.

Briefing: Church leaders criticise Christian owner of GB News over channel’s climate attacks

Strategic angle: Exclusive: Paul Marshall also challenged over his own ‘misleading’ statements and £1.8bn of fossil fuel investments in his hedge fund.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Environment

Briefing: Octopus reports sharp rise in solar panel sales since start of Iran war

Strategic angle: Firm’s sales up 54% this month and Good Energy reports doubling of interest in solar after latest oil price shock.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Environment

Briefing: Sewage released into England’s rivers and seas nearly 300,000 times last year

Strategic angle: Campaigners criticise frequent use of storm overflows during drought conditions.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Environment

Briefing: Modern agriculture is collapsing under climate change. Indigenous farming has answers.

Strategic angle: A new global review reveals a critical “gap between advocacy and evidence” when it comes to scaling traditional agriculture to fight climate change.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Environment

Briefing: Guest post: How declining cloudiness is accelerating global warming

Strategic angle: For the past two decades, low-level cloud cover has been declining, increasing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Environment

Briefing: Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions in 2025 grew at slowest rate in two decades

Strategic angle: India’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew by 0.5% in the second half of 2025.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Environment

Briefing: Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas

Strategic angle: The Iran war has triggered another fossil-fuel energy crisis, with surging global prices and increasing misinformation.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Environment

Briefing: US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

Strategic angle: US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Environment

Briefing: Trump’s $1B payoff to stop offshore wind is even stranger than it sounds

Strategic angle: The government is paying TotalEnergies to halt a wind farm it isn’t building, in exchange for fossil fuel investments it’s already making.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Environment

Briefing: ‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

Strategic angle: Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance.

Editorial Staff Mar 25

Environment

Briefing: US public health groups urge firing of EPA boss Zeldin, saying he ‘brazenly betrayed’ agency

Strategic angle: Advocates claim Lee Zeldin’s EPA has compromised health protections and reduced resources.

Editorial Staff Mar 24

Environment

Briefing: Green energy boss backs more North Sea oil and gas production

Strategic angle: GB Energy chief Jürgen Maier argues that increased production could provide economic benefits and aid the transition from fossil fuels.

Editorial Staff Mar 24

Environment

Briefing: Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds

Strategic angle: Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%.

Editorial Staff Mar 24

Environment

Briefing: More North Sea drilling will put UK at mercy of fossil fuel markets, ministers say

Strategic angle: Ministers warn that expanding North Sea drilling could jeopardize the UK's energy sovereignty.

Editorial Staff Mar 24

Environment

Briefing: What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?

Strategic angle: Understanding the significance of zettajoules in the context of climate change and energy measurement.

Editorial Staff Mar 24

Environment

Briefing: Eel fisher takes on authorities at Belfast court over pollution in UK’s largest lake

Strategic angle: Declan Conlon will argue officials have failed to act despite clear evidence of the ecological collapse of Lough Neagh.

Editorial Staff Mar 24

Environment

Briefing: Tonga PM welcomes US deal to explore deep-sea minerals amid environmental concerns

Strategic angle: Pacific island’s new leader discusses ‘exciting’ US partnership as critics fear impacts of seabed exploration.

Editorial Staff Mar 24

Environment

US to pay almost $1bn to French energy company to kill wind project plan

Trump administration announces deal with TotalEnergies to redirect investment in wind to oil and gas instead.

Editorial Staff Mar 24

Environment

Briefing: Ministers delay new rules for low-carbon housing in England

Strategic angle: The government postpones regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from new homes.

Editorial Staff Mar 24