Environment Agency under fire for extending schedule for tackling pollution in rivers, lakes and coastal waters to 2063

Exclusive: Almost £40m given since 2010 as government delays to low-carbon regulations save builders and developers billions

A fiasco like HS2 could never happen here – our fast train network is so popular that no Spanish government would dare give up on it, says journalist María Ramírez

Fishing nets churn up carbon from the sea floor, more than half of which will eventually be released into the atmosphere

Wood fires produce more particle pollution than traffic exhausts in UK, and controls remain ineffective

Buying a brand new property these days is often less of a dream home, more a living nightmare. With housebuilders – and their shareholders – making huge profits, how come so many new builds aren’t up...

Exclusive: Assessment that used to happen annually will now take six years despite rising concerns

As another big climate conference looms and global ‘loss and damage’ takes hold, we must keep pressure on the biggest emitters, write Farhana Sultana and the late Saleemul Huq

Oliver Wainwright reports on the increasingly poor standards of newly built homes in the UK and what consumers can do to protect themselves

Graham Stuart’s surprise exit leaves civil servants in Dubai to finish negotiations in his absence

They have higher emissions, hog roadspace and are more dangerous for other road users. Yet SUVs are selling better than ever. As calls for curbs increase, some people are taking matters into their...

Climate Change Committee also says rowing back on climate policies has harmed investment into UK

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Water scarcity threatening agriculture faster than expected, warns Cop15 desertification president

French economist says class inequality must be at centre of climate response and calls for progressive carbon taxes

Activists and experts say green light for coal would show UK’s ‘posturing, double standards and broken promises’

Homeowners and renters in new-build properties are frustrated by reliance on gas amid energy crisis

UK’s former climate chief Alok Sharma says phase-out crucial to limit global warming to 1.5C

Learning the full extent of the environmental damage caused by wood-burning stoves led Guardian columnist George Monbiot to issue a public mea culpa – and help ignite a raging debate

Plan will not please environmental campaigners, who say it fails to meet government’s net-zero targets

Prime minister’s move criticised as ‘salting the earth’ so Birmingham-Crewe line cannot be built

UK prime minister attacked for inconsistency after allowing more gas and oil exploration in the North Sea

Too many technical difficulties to overcome to make it a viable low-carbon heating fuel, say researchers

All-party climate group says backing away from green policies would be catastrophic for the economy

Government criticised as Britain’s latest subsidy auction to help support new renewable energy projects awarded no contracts for offshore wind projects

Exclusive: PM risked embarrassment of downgraded status if UN deemed UK’s climate policies lacking ambition

Exclusive: Under current policies, Britain could fall short of internationally agreed goal of 68% cut in emissions by 2030

Exclusive: Fatih Birol says claims that limit is dead are ‘factually incorrect and politically very wrong’

As English water companies plan to hike bills, the Guardian reveals customers are paying a high price for combined debts of £60bn

The continent has grown over-reliant on Russian gas – but Putin knows he is vulnerable to Europe cleaning up its energy sector

Critics say the costs could have been avoided if ministers had agreed to bring in low-carbon standards sooner

Gordon Brown leads those signing letter to Cop28 and G20 presidents calling for levy to help fill ‘loss and damage’ fund

Is capitalism the problem? Experts weigh in on ways to address the great carbon divide

Campaigners’ pressure sees London mayor withdraw approval for stoves billed as better for the environment

Government and gas-focused industry body resist conclusion that heat pumps are ‘only viable’ option for heating UK homes

Wood burners are awful for the environment and flood our homes with toxins, too. I wish I’d known that in 2008, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

When Cop28 starts next month, Sultan Al Jaber will be front and centre. He is the United Arab Emirates’ choice to head up the climate talks – and he also happens to be head of the national oil...

Experts say current policies will make it tougher for Keir Starmer to mend UK’s economy and climate goals

Exclusive: Most important antibiotics for human health still used in supply chains of major US food companies, risking spread of superbugs

Neither party is showing much appetite for the hard policy decisions that are necessary to cut CO2 emissions – and time is running out

Charity says research dispels myth that wood burning, which has health risks, is a cheaper energy option

Techniques such as solar radiation management may have unintended consequences, scientists say

Exclusive: Almost £40m given since 2010 as government delays to low-carbon regulations save builders and developers billions

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Experts and campaigners defend UK minister in charge of Cop26 talks amid furore over diplomatic plane trips

Vegan charity and its drones reveal that parasites are infesting fish reared for UK supermarkets

Figures obtained by Lib Dems reveal need for eightfold increase to reach greenhouse gas emissions goal by 2050

Exclusive: Simon Stiell says leaders must ‘stop dawdling’ and act before crucial summit in Dubai

Paris agreement negotiator Todd Stern attacks premiers who say that decarbonisation programmes are unrealistic and should be slowed down

BEIS has been sitting on report delivered in early July into possible effect of fracking in UK

US climate envoy says he will publicly criticise UK’s approval of Cumbrian mine if it adds to emissions

Summary report by world’s leading climate scientists sets out actions to stave off climate breakdown

More than 100 companies are set to send a letter to the PM voicing fears about the disastrous effects of Britain’s overreliance on gas

Damage to environment could wipe £368bn a year from growth by 2050 and UK will be hard hit, WWF warns

Figueres, Tubiana and Fabius warn that leaders must improve plans next year if world is to stay within crucial 1.5C limit

Licences UK has approved in last two years will result in carbon dioxide matching annual emissions of Denmark, Greenpeace finds

Only clear pledges of finance to be directed at neediest will persuade developing countries

Exclusive new emissions analysis shows how much more dangerous SUVs are for the climate than smaller vehicles, and how they have become part of our lives

But country’s climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, would not say whether it would support phase-out wording in climate deal

Top climate scientist says carbon sinks such as forests and wetlands vital to keeping temperature rise below 1.5C

A group of 50 NGOs found that bank and subsidiaries had funded oil refinery and gas processing

Paris agreement negotiator Todd Stern attacks premiers who say that decarbonisation programmes are unrealistic and should be slowed down