Farmers and landowners are being offered the chance to be part of the vast new Northern Forest with heavily subsidized tree-planting incentives.

Conservative MP Richard Graham writes about how the UK has led the way on environmental policy, reducing carbon emissions, improving air quality and increasing waste recycling.

A Labour government would reform school curriculums in England to introduce mandatory lessons on climate change, the party has announced.

Michael Gove has announced that plastic straws, drinks stirrers, and cotton buds will be banned in England from next year.

Earlier this month the UK Parliament became the first in the world to declare an ‘environment and climate emergency’. Shadow Defra Secretary Sue Hayman is determined to ensure the historic moment is followed up by real action. She talks to Marie Le Conte 

The Environmental Services Association (ESA), the voice for the UK’s resource and waste management industry, has today responded to the Mayor of London’s statement on Energy from Waste (EfW) in London.

Farming should be about producing the means for healthy diets from sustainable food systems. That’s not what we have at present, but the UK could lead a food and farming transition, says Caroline Lucas

British Safety Council’s report makes the case for urgent action on the impact of air pollution on outdoor workers

It’s time to seize the initiative and put an end to plastic pollution both at home and abroad, says Anne Main

Clearly we cannot ban trophy hunting overseas, and it is not our place to do so. But we could reduce demand for it, writes Zac Goldsmith

This country is rightly proud of its commitment to the protection and care of animals. It’s time we banned the use of wild animals in circuses, writes animal welfare minister David Rutley 

Where there are opportunities to be more energy efficient, like the restoration of the Palace of Westminster, parliament should get its own House in order and lead by example, says James Heappey

CIWM has joined a long list of signatories in a letter to Environment Secretary Michael Gove on the current raft of consultations on reformed packaging producer responsibility, a Deposit Return Scheme, Collection Consistency and the Plastics Packaging Tax.

Hundreds of young people gathered on a former coal mine site as they planted the first trees of Britain’s first Young People’s Forest.

Responding to the announcement yesterday by the Cabinet Secretary Roseanna Cunningham on a Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland, CIWM Scotland has said it is keen that the Scottish resources industry is given a more inclusive role to support the implementation of the scheme.

Ministers must use UK aid spending to tackle the "existential threat" of climate change, a group of influential MPs has said.

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), reports that more than 1 million species are at risk from extinction.

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, Fera Science, Sylva Foundation and the Woodland Trust has calculated the true economic cost of ash dieback – and the predictions, published today in Current Biology, are staggering:

Michael Gove has called on top players from the food industry to "step up to the plate" and reduce the amount of food wasted in the UK.

There is a manageable cost to tackling climate change, and the lesson of the last decade is that costs fall when there is a concerted effort to act, writes Lord Deben

The Woodland Trust has welcomed calls by more than 40 local councils to stop advance site clearance for HS2.

The Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) report published today outlines the stark increase in woodland expansion needed to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The report recognises that neither internally legally binding targets (as enshrined in the Climate Change Act) nor externally binding commitments (the Paris Accord) will be met given the current trajectory in the reduction of carbon emissions.

The Bishop of St Albans writes ahead of a question in the House of Lords on 'Impact of rural crime on farming communities'.