The UK’s supreme court has upheld the legal right to wild camp at a treasured English beauty spot – a judgment that was about much more than simply pitching a tent. Wednesday’s ruling followed ...

Many will be baffled that such an agreement even exists. But the UK has become the latest country to announce its withdrawal from the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which allows fossil ...

Spring is nature’s way of saying: ‘Let’s party!’” said the late actor Robin Williams, and the celebrations are truly kicking off where I live. The trees are coming into leaf again, we’re back to ...

More than 30 years since the launch of Fairtrade in the UK, international smallholders continue to face livelihood-threatening challenges. Here’s why its proponents argue the certification will endure ...

Fresh from opening a London branch of the Poetry Pharmacy, peddling literary first aid to a new generation from the most famous shopping street in the world, founder Deb Alma explains why poetry is in ...

An ambitious programme combines solar power with mobile connectivity to revolutionise the prospects for people living in rural India Imagine this. You’re living in a remote rural hamlet in the ...

As megadroughts grip countries across the globe, politicians are flocking to a tiny, desert-locked African city to learn the secret to its circular water supply Namibia is the driest country in ...

Coal. It powered the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain. So it was hugely symbolic this week when the UK became the first advanced economy to quit the black stuff. Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the ...

Sweden has long pioneered policies that benefit families. Now the Scandinavian nation has gone even further by introducing paid parental leave for grandparents. Under a new law, a parent couple will ...

A group of Swiss women won a landmark climate justice battle in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) this week, in a ruling that presses governments across Europe to step up over the climate ...

A city once dubbed “the dirtiest in the US” has been designated North America’s first national park city. Half a century ago, Chattanooga in Tennessee was infamous for its acrid air and toxic water, ...

China’s embrace of renewables has tipped its emissions into reverse, with some experts predicting the country’s CO2 output could be entering a period of structural decline. According to analysis by ...