‘Unprecedented’ wildfire burns area size of Paris in southern France

Advancing blaze scorches 16,000 hectares near Spanish border, destroying homes and forcing people to flee

Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days

Oil producer pressure, Trump rollbacks threaten global treaty on plastics pollution

Hopes for a "last-chance" ambitious global treaty to curb plastic pollution have dimmed as delegates gather this week at the United Nations in Geneva for what was intended to be the final round of negotiations.

Labour MPs urge Thames Water to recover £2.5m paid to executives in April

Exclusive: Letter to water company sets out demands, including resolving most severe cases of pollution

What’s a Potato? A Nine-Million-Year-Old Tomato.

Weather tracker: deadly floods devastate northern China

Torrential rain batters Beijing and surrounding areas, while intense heat lingers in parts of Scandinavia

Tourist discovers ‘extinct’ jellyfish while rock-pooling in Outer Hebrides

Thistle-shaped Depastrum cyathiforme was last seen in France in 1976, but has now been found on South Uist

Thousands of pollution tests cancelled due to lack of staff

Testing programmes affected include those monitoring the impact of drought.

EA staff shortages hit water quality testing

Tax on AI and crypto could fund climate action, says former Paris accords envoy

Laurence Tubiana urges governments to consider levies on energy-hungry technology