Incident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this year Western journalists were refused entry to an energy industry conference in Azerbaijan earlier this month, reigniting concerns over the state’s crackdown on the media
Climate groups and anti-war activists say bank using reported £20m deal to ‘hide its multitude of sins’ Wimbledon is facing calls to drop Barclays as a sponsor over the bank’s ties to fossil fuels and defence companies supplying Israel. Ahead of the 2024 championships, which
Reform chair is hostile to net zero but is CEO of company that boasted of ‘saving hundreds of tonnes of CO 2 ’ UK election live – latest updates Richard Tice’s property company has enthusiastically embraced green technologies despite his public hostility as Reform UK chair to
A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earn This story is co-published with DeSmog Thousands of oil and gas wells across Colorado cannot generate enough revenue to cover their own cleanup costs, according to a
Fears of fire and environmental disaster as company repeatedly misses UK deadlines to decommission sites The North Sea’s biggest oil and gas infrastructure company is risking fires and environmental disasters, experts have warned, as documents reveal it is failing to plug its
The 10,000 miles of coastline host a stunning variety of creatures, so put on a diving mask or just a pair of wellies and go on the hunt Read more in this series If you go down to the sea today, there’s a good chance you will find something you’ve never seen before. With more
More than 21,000 old sites may be releasing ‘forever chemicals’ into land often left as open space ‘It’s a poison and it’s killing us’: the hidden dangers of old UK landfills Thousands of polluted landfills across England could be leaking toxic chemicals into the environment
Water quality testing by campaigners shows levels up to 27 times acceptable limit for bathing as rowers told to take precautions Harmful E coli bacteria have been found at very high levels at Henley, days before elite rowers compete in the international regatta there. Water
Paulana Lamonier started Black People Will Swim in 2019 and has since provided free and low-cost lessons to over 2,500 Black and brown people Valerie Spears hadn’t planned on taking swim lessons when she RSVP’d to her high school reunion in New York City. But when Spears, a
No one was present when sinkhole, 100ft wide and 30ft deep, suddenly collapsed field in Alton, north of St Louis A vast sinkhole has dramatically appeared in middle of an Illinois soccer pitch that was laid above a limestone mine, just days after amateur teams stopped using the