From BBC Published41 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Andrew Aitchison By Esme StallardClimate and Science Reporter, BBC News A major new grant scheme to replace gas boilers in England and Wales has got off to a slow…

From BBC Published16 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Landowners at the centre of a row over the future of wild camping on Dartmoor have said it is “perfectly understandable” that people are upset. A High Court judge ruled on…

COLOMBO — Each day, as the sun set over the horizon, Thettuwage Tennakoon and his wife would carefully climb up into their treehouse in the middle of their rice field. This elevated position was ideal for keeping watch over the…

On Dec. 5, a flight over the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in Brazil’s northern Amazon showed the Greenpeace and Brazilian NGO Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) members on board an illegal road, already 150 kilometers (93 miles) long, and four hydraulic excavators nearby.…

“They bought new land and they are cutting wood where our ancestors were,” says a source in Meta, Colombia. “Us Mbya live from the forest, but here there’s barely anything left,” says an Indigenous local from Paraguay. “They cut thousands…

From BBC Published47 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing By Jonathan AmosBBC Science Correspondent You definitely shouldn’t panic but there is a biggish asteroid about to pass by Earth in the coming hours. About the size of a bus, the…

The indiscriminate use of gillnets by fishers in Bangladesh has become a major threat to the two freshwater dolphin species found there: the Ganga River dolphin (Platanista gangetica) and the Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris). Both species, listed as threatened by…

From BBC Published59 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing By Claire Marshall and Malcolm PriorRural affairs team Long-awaited details of the post-Brexit farm-subsidy scheme have been published by the government. Landowners in England will be rewarded for environmental work as…

From BBC Published1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing By Reality Check teamBBC News Videos said to show that rocks found in Africa can produce electricity have been viewed millions of times online. Some social media users are claiming they…

From NPR A federal agency said it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. USDA’s move repeals a Trump administration-era decision. (Image credit: Hall Anderson/Ketchikan Daily News via AP, File) Read the…