Leaked internal ministerial briefing for Theresa Villiers warns post-Brexit trade agreements could ‘irreparably damage' environment and public health

Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke.

How America's biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change

Leaked documents detail how some of the world’s biggest coal, oil and meat producing nations are lobbying to weaken a key UN climate report

Tesco, Nando's, and McDonald's among leading brands selling chicken fed on soya linked to vast deforestation and fires in Brazil

The report argues that tax havens are not 'hotbeds of tax evasion' and alleviate poverty

Internal documents chronicle the livestock sector's deep ties to leading academic Dr Frank Mitloehner

One million species now face extinction and scientists warn that this is not only a crisis for nature, but for humanity. Why are they so worried?

Protected land reserved for Brazil's indigenous communities is being traded on the social network.

The UK is by far Europe's biggest exporter of toxic banned pesticides to poorer countries, an Unearthed and Public Eye investigation reveals.

Find out if your local river, beach or lake has been affected by sewage pollution by using our map

UK has shipped more than 2.7m tonnes of plastic scrap to China and Hong Kong since 2012 - but the country now needs to find a new home for its recycling

Sweden sees the highest temperatures for a century as more than 50 wildfires continue to burn above the Arctic Circle.

Climate change and racism are symptoms of the same unequal systems.

Decision not to adopt EU legal duty to end overfishing from 2020 came after fishing interests asked for target to be watered down

A Masters of Beef Advocacy program teaches ‘scientific sounding’ arguments on cattle’s sustainability in an all-out public relations war

Foreign Office spared Initiative for Free Trade thousands of pounds in room hire, arguing the think tank's policies support the government's

Thousands of plastic bottles lay on the ground at the Dandora rubbish dump, an eastern suburb of Nairobi, Kenya's capital. Photo: Jan Hetfleisch/Getty

Single-use plastic cups, cutlery and straws will be banned in public bodies and government departments.

Spreading particles in stratosphere to fight climate change may cost $2bn a year

As Boris Johnson promises to stop funding coal plants and coal mines overseas, Unearthed reveals the government's current exposure to the oil and gas industry