Environment
Village and town greens may be under threat
Britain’s oldest national conservation body says the latest judgement has consequences for the rights of people all over the country to protect land they have used for decades.
Eradicating elephant poaching is unrealistic until ivory demand from South East Asia is tackled
But the rate elephants killed due to poaching has fallen by 60 per cent in the last eight years.
Extinction faces Earth’s largest animals and birds such as elephants, rhinos, deer and pelicans
Human sprawl, deforestation, intensive farming and global warming will see the demise of large bodied wild mammals and birds over the next 100 years.
Oceans could swell nearly SEVEN FEET by 2100 – destroying homes of almost 200 million people
A study suggests it would wipe out over a million square miles of farming and other food producing lands - having "profound consequences for humanity"
Diver spots seahorse so rare that wildlife licence is required to even seek it out
Steve Trewhella has spent 10 years studying the endangered species of seahorse
Antarctica ice now unstable as glaciers melt five times as fast as in the 90s
Coastal communities across the planet will be affected.
Extinction Rebellion activists accused of gluing themselves to DLR train to stand trial
Cathy Eastburn, 51, Mark Ovland, 35, and Luke Watson, 29, all appeared at Blackfriars Crown Court to enter not guilty pleas
Tropical islands suffocated by 414 million pieces of plastic
Once celebrated as "Heaven on Earth" by travel writers, now a monstrous 238 tonnes of plastic debris scatter the white sandy beaches of the Cocos Islands - including bottle caps, straws and flip-flops
Global warming ‘reducing amount of carbon stored in forests’
Researchers found that as temperatures increase, trees grow faster - but they also tend to die younger