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Walking campaigners welcome the move, which the government says will help prevent paths from being lost.

A rise in the number of remarriages and a baby boom in the years since 2004 gave hope to survivors and helped them cope with the tragedy

It was Mahyuddin’s mother who had pestered him to go out on Sunday morning, 20 years ago. Dozens of relatives were visiting their small coastal village in Indonesia for a wedding party, but a powerful earthquake had struck just before 8am. Buildings in some areas had collapsed. He should go and check on his employer’s office to see if they needed help, his mother said.

As he drove into town, he found chaos and panic. The road was heavy with traffic: cars, motorbikes, trucks, all rushing in the same direction. People were running, shouting that water was coming.

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A biodiversity hotspot has become the stomping ground of poachers.

Campaigners jubilant after government heeded warning 2031 cutoff would mean loss of precious footpaths

A deadline for registering historic rights of way is to be scrapped after a warning that the looming cutoff date could result in the loss of thousands of miles of footpaths.

The last government set a deadline of 2031 for all rights of way in England to be added to an official map, after abandoning a previous commitment to scrap the policy.

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The animals - including a Bengal tiger, cougars and bobcats - have died of the virus over the past several weeks.

Evaluation could lead to limits or bans on substances commonly used in the production of plastic and rubber

The Environmental Protection Agency is launching a formal review of five highly toxic plastic chemicals, including vinyl chloride, the notorious compound at the center of the East Palestine, Ohio, train wreck fire.

The move could lead to strong limits or bans on the substances.

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In a little understood quirk of nature foresters have been putting the aspen tree under duress to promote flowering

On a nature reserve deep in the Scottish Highlands there is a polytunnel which houses a small forest of slender grey aspen trees. It is known as the “torture chamber”.

The aspen is one of the UK’s scarcest but most valuable trees. And to produce the tiny, delicate aspen seeds being harvested by the charity Trees for Life, these 104 specimens are deliberately made to suffer.

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Staff working out in the wilds of Antarctica share their Christmas Day plans.

An appeals court on Tuesday ruled against a power producer's challenge to free allowance provisions under Washington's cap-and-trade programme, rejecting the petitioner's argument that no-cost allowance provisions under the scheme were discriminatory.

The roughly $100 billion continuing resolution passed by Congress and signed into law last week includes over $1 bln in emergency forest conservation and restoration funding for private forest owners impacted by natural disasters.

Two US companies announced on Monday an underground pore space easement agreement for approximately 140,000 acres (56,700 hectares) in Alabama to support carbon storage initiatives.

Academics from universities across the globe outlined in a paper published earlier this month a methodological framework they said can guide the optimal selection and siting of nature-based solutions (NBS) projects in urban contexts by incorporating social and other considerations.

Stricter greenhouse gas pricing policies, including higher carbon taxes and reduced fossil fuel subsidies, are reshaping global trade by shifting competitive advantages among industries, according to a working paper published by the World Trade Organization.

Campaigners say consumption such as travel, gifts and food are destroying planet and the meaning of Christmas

Whether out of poverty or virtue, many of us spend much of the year reining in our appetites to save our pennies and our health. But at Christmas many of us put our worries aside and go wild in an orgy of lavish gifting, extensive travel and a gluttonous feeding frenzy.

This carnival of consumption has a cost: not just to our wallets and our waistlines, but also to the climate.

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Microsoft has announced an AI-powered device aimed at improving biodiversity monitoring, with plans to make it available worldwide in 2025.

Nearly 100 countries have now submitted their Designated National Authority (DNA) under Article 6.4 to the UNFCCC, indicating growing interest in carbon market participation following the breakthrough on international carbon markets at COP29 in Baku.

European carbon prices traded lower in the final, holiday-shortened session ahead of the break, stretching the correlation with natural gas with some other markets already closed.

Denmark is introducing a new tax on CO2 emitted by enterprises already covered in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), with an Emission Tax Act set to enter into force on Jan. 1, 2025.

India’s forest and tree cover has increased since 2021 and stands at 827,357 square kilometres or around 25% of the country’s total geographical area, according to a government report released Saturday.

An international soft drinks provider has renewed its carbon removal partnership with London-headquartered industry specialist CUR8 for a second year, the two companies announced on Monday.