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Organisation urges all political parties to outline concrete steps on how to prepare for inevitable climate-fuelled disasters Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing The Climate Council has issued a pre-election call for all Australian political parties to acknowledge the climate crisis is driving worsening disasters, including the “megafloods” in Queensland and

Firm has pledged to plant huge forest in Scotland, but some of its environmental claims have raised eyebrows Corporate tree-planting drive in Scotland ‘risks widening rural inequality’ It is a typically eye-catching boast by the great provocateur of British brewing. James Watt, co-founder of the beer company BrewDog, pledged to plant “the biggest ever” forest

The planning and implementation of infrastructure projects is a long-term enterprise that involves debates over the many positive and negative impacts. Previous work has examined questions about conditions for effective environmental governance of infrastructure, but has typically focused on individual projects and short time frames. We therefore pursued an historical approach to environmental governance of

Politicians, academics and campaigners criticise Nationals MP Paul Toole after he says ‘stop using the excuse of a moth’ to oppose dams Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing The New South Wales deputy premier, Paul Toole, has been accused of using

Experts and advocates are also exploring new ranking systems to add urgency to the growing disaster of rapidly warming landscapes Climate scientists from around the world issued dire warnings on Monday, in the latest IPCC report on the dangers posed in the unfolding climate crisis. Among them is extreme heat, a crisis that on average

Drawing on the results of two research programs undertaken in France, we consider environmental inequality and regional solidarity in the context of adaptation to sea-level rise, given that there is in France a bespoke national system for natural-disaster solidarity. The analysis makes it possible to address situations of inequality, in particular related to risk, and

Carbon emissions from felling of tropical forest doubled in just two decades and are accelerating, research says Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation this century are far higher than previously thought, doubling in just two decades and continuing to accelerate, according to a study. The world’s forests form an enormous carbon store, holding an estimated 861