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Aldi, a major German supermarket chain, has pledged to scrap more than 2bn single-use plastic items by 2025. That is a 50% reduction and...

The 13 largest dairy companies worldwide emit as many greenhouse gases as the entire United Kingdom. The UK's annual emissions are 350m...

Habitat loss has plagued Southeast Asia's wildlife for decades, but more recently, the wildlife trade's use of snares has become an...

Algae that accelerate the effects of climate change have emerged in the Presena glacier, located in the Italian Alps, and turned the ice...

On 22 June, the Arctic circle hit a new record temperature of 38C (100F) in Verkhoyansk, Siberia. The record is 18C higher than the...

Renewables accounted for 47% of Great Britain's electricity in the first quarter of 2020. The previous record of 39% was set last year. A...

More than 350 elephants have been found dead in Botswana. 169 were discovered in early May and more than twice that many were spotted in...

The critically endangered Indus River dolphin is one of only four remaining freshwater dolphins. It lives in Pakistan's Lab-e-Mehran...

Sanya and Yangzhou, two Chinese cities, have joined the Pacific Smart Cities Initiative, a project launched by WWF to eliminate plastic...

The UK's automotive industry lobbied the government to create a scrappage scheme intended to encourage the purchase of fossil fuel...

Chinese researchers have found a swine flu virus, called G4, with pandemic potential in multiple Chinese slaughterhouses and a veterinary...

Renewable energy has surpassed coal for the first time in 130 years, as a result of a plunge in demand and the rise of cheaper...

Brazil's emissions are expected to rise by 10 to 20% this year compared to 2018, the last year for which data is available. Deforestation...

64,000 endangered green turtles have flocked to Raine Island in the Great Barrier Reef to nest. The turtles were counted after a new...

The director of Brazil's National Mining Agency (ANM) has claimed that he will apply a 'regulatory guillotine' to the domestic mining...

The Vatican has asked Catholics to divest from fossil fuels and the armaments industry. The institution has also urged companies to...

The Indonesian government plans to prioritise 89 projects on its road to economic recovery after the coronavirus. These projects are...

Between January 2013 and May 2019, British banks invested $2 billion in Brazilian beef corporations linked to Amazonian deforestation....

A US court has ruled that the EPA broke the law when it approved dicamba-based weedkilling pesticids from Bayer, BASF and one other...

BASF and Bayer, two of the largest chemical corporations worldwide, have been given massive bailouts from the UK government just weeks...