• Illegal ivory that is less than 70 years old is being sold in the UK, after it is stained with tea to make it look older and bypass legislation.

• The Government is to outline a series of tweaks to planning laws it says will help solve the housing shortage.• Ministers want to require councils to come with a local plan to meet housing demand

• Millions of lampposts could be fitted with wind turbines connected directly into the National Grid.

There has been a lot of speculation since climate change doubter Donald Trump’s election about what the consequences could be for global climate action.

Last month, temperatures in the high Arctic spiked dramatically, some 36 degrees Fahrenheit above normal -- a move that corresponded with record low levels of Arctic sea ice during a time of year w

CEOs whose businesses commit environmental crimes can now be tried in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

The Government is being urged to order a complete ban on microbeads in cosmetic products to halt the damage caused to marine life by plastic pollution and its knock-on effects on the environment an

A global warming limit agreed by world leaders with great fanfare is feared to be coming close to being broken just eight months on.

The sunshine will come back for the south-east of England at least PA

The numbers of polluting plastic beads commonly found in everyday face scrub have been revealed by scientists.