Conservation

Plans for a major road widening and tunnel near Stonehenge have been approved by Grant Shapps despite determined opposition.

HS2 will increase commuting: undermining local economies, separating families, and increasing climate emissions.

Large areas of rainforest degraded or destroyed due to human activity and climate breakdown - leading to carbon loss.

Tropical deforestation is linked to food and animal feed consumed in the EU. We read 1,141 proposals addressing this problem - so you don't have to.

New project in Ireland to monitor sound pollution impacts on whales, dolphins and porpoise.

Father and son team up to protect India's 'green ones', long threatened by habitat destruction and the export market.

United Utilities suspends trail hunting on its land.

The struggle to save the Los Cedros Forest Reserve in Ecuador from mining will set huge precedent for biodiversity protections.

Actress Joanna Lumley, charities concerned about unexploded war munitions being detonated at sea.

We can transform the British landscape, and the longevity of our economy, if we let nature take the driving seat.

A map developed by the Autonomous University of Barcelona’s EJAtlas unveils the high-level of social injustice that communities are facing in many of India’s protected areas.

A rare leatherback turtle was spotted by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust.

Global heating is contributing to forest fires, and those fires are stoking further heating: a deadly cycle. What can we learn from India's forest survey?

Defra’s March 2020 policy emphasis towards bovine TB vaccination of cattle in England is associated with optimistic noise - but will the exalted tests bring progress?

Herds of goats are used to rid the earth of grasses and shrubs that could be a fire hazard, from the US to the Mediterranean,

More than 1,200 scientists back protection of Los Cedros Reserve in Ecuador.

Twyford Rising is not just a great story, but helps us understand today’s protests and is packed with inspiration for current campaigners.

How can anyone be proud of killing such magnificent creatures, asks leading primatologist Jane Goodall.

The nature in our skies is valuable - for its own sake, for our mental health and for the planet. But it is in a precarious state.

Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin will host online Hen Harrier Day on 8 August.

Donald Murray explores the good – and the dark – side to peat-digging.

Ecuador's protected forests to define Rights of Nature and test jurisprudence in country’s Constitutional Court.

Wildlife campaigners launch legal case to challenge badger cull.

Coconut oil production may be more damaging to the environment than palm oil, researchers say.