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Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables
Coal use hit a record high around the world last year despite efforts to switch to clean energy, imperilling the world’s attempts to rein in global heating.
The share of coal in electricity generation dropped as renewable energy surged ahead. But the general increase in power demand meant that more coal was used overall, according to the annual State of Climate Action report, published on Wednesday.
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Campaigners say figures reveal a lack of enforcement with just 24 fines issued by councils for rule violations
Not one prosecution for illegal wood burning has been made in the past year, despite 15,195 complaints across England, data shows.
Additionally, just 24 fines were issued by local authorities between September 2024 and August 2025, responses to freedom of information requests by the campaign group Mums for Lungs revealed.
This article was amended on 22 October 2025. The original version stated that there had been just one prosecution in the last year; in fact there have been none.
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Interviews with experts and key players across four countries reveal why efforts to stop the multibillion-euro trafficking industry have failed – and how to save the endangered fish
By 10am on the midsummer Day of the Ox, the city of Narita smells of charcoal and sugar. The cobbled road is thronged with visitors lining up to buy grilled eel, a traditional delicacy believed to cool the body and keep spirits up in the humid weather.
“We’ll be so sad if it becomes extinct and we can’t eat eel any more,” says a customer sitting on the tatami-mat floor in Kawatoyo, a popular restaurant specialising in grilled eel, which has been operating for more than 115 years.
Kabayaki-style eel, grilled with tare sauce, served at Kawatoyo restaurant in Narita. Photograph: Toru Hanai
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‘The objectives of the Paris agreement are slipping further out of reach,’ say researchers from LSE
No major bank has yet committed to stop funding new oil and gas fields or coal capacity, research has found.
Most banks that have recently updated their climate policies have weakened them, according to the research by the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
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Human-wildlife conflict has now overtaken poaching as a cause of fatalities – and is deadly for people too. Some villages are finding new ways to live alongside them
Photographs by Edwin Ndeke
At nearly 3.5-metres tall and weighing as much as a bus, you could be forgiven for assuming that Goshi – one of an estimated 30 “super-tusker” elephants left in Africa – would be easy to find. The radio tracker picking up his signal beeps encouragingly, indicating the giant bull is within 200 metres. But the dry season has turned the mass of arid acacia scrubland grey, and everything seems to resemble an elephant.
Even when they are invisible, the huge herbivores shape the landscape here. There are 17,000 elephants across the Tsavo region, Kenya’s largest protected area, which is divided in two. Each year, elephants wander huge distances between feeding grounds, following the seasonal rains as they have done for thousands of years.
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Government consults on allowing regulator to use lower civil standard of proof and introducing automatic penalties
Water companies in England could face more, and automatic, fines for sewage dumping under new Environment Agency powers.
The government is consulting on allowing the regulator to use a lower, civil, standard of proof instead of the higher criminal standard, for minor to moderate environmental offences.
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Allerton, Merseyside: This cemetery is the resting place for famous names, and home to plants that are far from their preferred cliffs and rocky slopes
The names of Liverpool luminaries are what bring many people to Allerton cemetery, it being the resting place of Cilla Black, Ken Dodd and Julia Lennon (mother of John). I, however, am here for the plants. On a still autumn day I make my way to the mortuary chapels, standing out in the grey with their red desert sandstone, hewn from the nearby Woolton quarry. There are three, consecrated for Church of England, nonconformist and Roman Catholic faiths. Around them, the Grade II-listed cemetery has the air of a public park with its broad central avenue, geometric design and extensive planting of evergreen species.
Disused since 1975, the chapels hear no sorrowful footfall now. The windows are boarded up, the stained glass no longer dispenses prisms of light. The only visitors are the corvids, wood pigeons and gulls roosting inside and out. The external walls provide sanctuary for a surprising wealth of plants, though, for those willing to look closely. Beneath the ubiquitous buddleia bursting from the steeples and alcoves, there are refugees from mountain sites. These plants have taken root in the mortar of the buildings, the weathering composite mimicking the scree of their preferred homes. Adept at gaining their food in unusual ways, they can live without soil, absorbing nutrients from the mortar, rainfall and even bird droppings.
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Green groups defend ‘essential’ levy, but Heck sausages and Gü desserts among those who say shoppers will pick up tab
A packaging tax designed to end our throwaway society is under fire for inadvertently adding to food price inflation as it pushes up the cost of everything from sausages to soft drinks.
“It’s about 3p on a pack of sausages,” says Andrew Keeble, the co-founder of Heck, of the new extended producer responsibility (EPR) tax.
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Of the 2m flood-prone houses across the country, at least 70% have had values reduced, a new report by Climate Council and PropTrack has found
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When Warwick Irwin returned home after a week away, he was shocked by the ruin inside.
It was February 2022 and two days earlier his North Lismore house had flooded to the ceiling. “It was quite a mind-blowing experience when I got into the house when the water went down.”
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Climate crisis contributing to spread of diseases as hunting industry takes a hit from growing number of dead deer
When landowner and hunter James Barkhurst went scouting his property about a month ago to assess the local deer population ahead of the fall hunting season, he was left in shock.
“I’ve seen about 14 dead in less than a mile stretch. There’s a lot of does, big bucks and even fawns. You smell the dead everywhere,” he says. “And I haven’t really went deep into the woods.”
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A coroner says some of the care Cerys Lupton-Jones was given at a mental health unit was a "shambles".
The Shropshire and Leeds trusts had been two of 14 to be included in a "rapid" review in England.
Denise Bacon says she is experiencing improvements in her ability to walk.
Japan, Mexico and Peru are among the nations included in the updated Foreign Office guidance.
The former PM says lockdown rules "probably did go too far" and says children could have been exempted.
The results are astounding and a major advance, say surgeons involved in international research using the pioneering technology.
The BBC has spoken to students choosing Bulgaria due to UK's strict cap on medical school places.
The Galleri test looks for fragments of DNA that have broken off a tumour and are circulating in the blood.
The shot, given six times a year or every other month, is an alternative to taking daily pills to protect against ever catching the virus.
At Maido — the Lima restaurant recently crowned the best in the world — one of the star dishes is paiche, a giant prehistoric river fish.Its journey to the table begins on a small family farm deep in Peru’s Amazon.
“Jane Goodall forever changed how people think about, interact with and care for the natural world,” said Daniela Raik, interim CEO of Conservation International.
Conservation International’s Neil Vora was selected for TIME’s Next 100 list — alongside other rising leaders reshaping culture, science and society.
Climate change is happening. And it’s placing the world’s reefs in peril. What can be done?
After decades of negotiation, the high seas treaty is finally reality. The historic agreement will pave the way to protect international waters which face numerous threats.
The Amazon rainforest, known for lush green canopies and an abundance of freshwater, is drying out — and deforestation is largely to blame.
The ocean is engine of all life on Earth, but human-driven climate change is pushing it past its limits. Here are five ways the ocean keeps our climate in check — and what can be done to help.
In a grueling and delicate dance, a team led by Conservation International removes a massive undersea killer.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. These pictures might be worth even more. An initiative featuring the work of some of the world’s best nature photographers raises money for environmental conservation.
In a fishing community in Peru, a small group of fishermen carry on a tradition that dates back to the Incas. But an environmental disaster and modern fishing practices threaten this way of life.
