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China will introduce a tender system for new utility-scale wind power plants in a bid to cut costs and reduce wasted generation, the nation’s energy regulator said Thursday.

Initial findings in the National Trust's five-yearly survey suggest an overall decline of 12%.

Initial findings in the National Trust's five-yearly survey suggest an overall decline of 12%.

Exclusive: study of schools in capital finds dangerous levels of fine particulate pollution within classrooms, putting children at risk

Children in London schools are being exposed to higher levels of damaging air pollution inside the classroom than outside, putting them at risk of lifelong health problems, a new study has revealed.

Related: Clean-air campaigners call for ban on school run to cut pollution

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Litigants from eight countries claim EU institutions are not protecting fundamental rights

Lawyers acting for a group including a French lavender farmer and members of the indigenous Sami community in Sweden have launched legal action against the EU’s institutions for failing to adequately protect them against climate change.

A case is being pursued in the Luxembourg-based general court, Europe’s second highest, against the European parliament and the council of the European Union for allowing overly high greenhouse gas emissions to continue until 2030.

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Holyrood says ‘net-zero’ carbon emissions are ultimate aim but climate campaigners say target is disappointing

New targets will set Scotland on course to become one of the first countries in the world to achieve a 100% reduction in carbon emissions, the Scottish government has claimed.

The draft climate change bill, published on Thursday morning, sets a target of a 90% reduction by 2050 – which the UK Committee on Climate Change states is currently “at the limit of feasibility” – with the aim of achieving 100% reduction, or “net-zero”, as soon as possible after that date.

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What does it mean to live sustainably in our suburbs?

Pigs outstripped people in Duplin county long ago - but now the residents are fighting back

Two poles that once hoisted a clothes line stand rusting and unused in Elsie Herring’s back garden in eastern North Carolina. Herring lives next door to a field where pig manure is sprayed and the drifting faecal matter wasn’t kind to her drying clothes.

“The clothes would stink so you’d wash them again and again until they fell apart,” said Herring, whose family has lived in Wallace since her grandfather, a freed slave, purchased land in the 1890s.

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Most MEPs on the influential agriculture committee have business ties, new research shows, raising concerns about conflicts of interest

Most of the politicians on the European parliament’s influential agriculture committee have business or personal links to the farming sector they are charged with regulating, research reveals.

The key EU panel oversees some of the most important agricultural decisions in European politics. Its MEPs negotiated the last common agricultural policy (CAP) settlement with 28 nation states and the European commission. The CAP sets subsidy rates for farmers across the continent – accounting for almost 40% of the EU’s overall budget in 2017, or €59bn (£51.5bn).

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New Zealand carbon allowances have dropped to their lowest levels since early April amid a lack of significant demand ahead of next week’s compliance deadline.

South Korean carbon permits rose another 1.8% on Thursday to extend yesterday’s 5.5-month high as emitters continued to scramble for the trickle of available supply in the tight market.

Dozens of fast-flying butterflies released in a secret location in Northamptonshire forest after disappearing in 1976

It mysteriously vanished from England after the long hot summer of 1976, but the chequered skipper butterfly is taking to the skies again as part of a bid to revive 20 endangered species.

Several dozen mostly female butterflies have been collected in Belgium and released in a secret location in Rockingham forest, Northamptonshire.

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"Dismissive" dealers are a major barrier to boosting sales of electric cars says a new study.

"Dismissive" dealers are a major barrier to boosting sales of electric cars says a new study.

Energy and environmental commodity exchange operator CBL Markets has agreed a partnership with the UN’s climate change secretariat to list spot CERs on its trading platform, it announced on Wednesday.

One-third through 2018 and we've chalked up 100MW+ new rooftop solar every single month. But how long can the solar boom last?

Australia's inaction on electric vehicles means it could be left behind in yet another round of global disruption, leaving it hostage again to international developments, rather than reaping benefits of helping to engineer the change.

Tasmania is going solar, with Epuron about to build the first two solar farms - 5MW and 12.5MW - in the island state.