In Pictures: Clean-up under way after sun-soaked Glastonbury
Climate change and the environment was the theme of this year’s festival.
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Protests escalate as Hong Kong marks handover to China
The city’s leader has been criticised for backing legislation that would have allowed suspects to be extradited to mainland China to face trial.
Sir David Attenborough previews new BBC series at Glastonbury
BBC One will premiere Seven Worlds, One Planet later this year.
Why are hundreds of Nike trainers washing up on beaches across the world?
They have been found everywhere from Bermuda to Cornwall
In Greta Thunberg’s footsteps – the climate kids fighting for their future
A keen reader of graphic novels, nine-year-old Zayne Cowie has a bookshelf laden with tales of the struggles of imaginary superheroes. Now, a real-life role model has inspired him to join a battle for his own planet's future. Kept awake some nights by fears that rising seas will devastate his ...
De La Rue’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
De La Rue’s fortunes have been trending steadily downwards since last spring, when the UK government awarded the contract for the nation’s new blue passports to an overseas competitor in a surprise move
Emissions need to be halved to avoid 3C warming
Emissions need to be halved by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius but temperatures are on track to reach double that by the end of the century even if countries' current plans are fully implemented, research by scientists shows. A group of European researchers, Climate Action Tracker, tracks ...
Mersey ‘more polluted than the Great Pacific Garbage patch’
Every UK river tested by Greenpeace found to contain microplastics
Southeast Asia should ban foreign trash imports – environmentalists
Environmental groups called on Tuesday for Southeast Asian countries to ban waste imports from developed countries to help tackle a pollution crisis, as regional leaders prepare to meet this week in Bangkok. Southeast Asia has seen a staggering spike in imports of plastic and electronic waste from developed countries after ...