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plastic wood

Technology

To avert environmental disaster, we need to return to the trees

We need to radically rethink how we obtain energy, move ourselves around, build cities and use land. Wood has plausible answers for all of these

Leader

wooden tower blocks

Technology

Our wooden future: making cars, skyscrapers and even lasers from wood

Features

Greta Thunberg

Environment

Greta Thunberg: Why I began the climate protests that are going global

News

A fire stricken terrain

Environment

Forests are becoming less able to bounce back from wildfires

News

Norwegian flag in front of an oil rig

Environment

Norway is starting the world's biggest divestment in oil and gas

News

Rain is falling in Greenland even in winter

Environment

Rain may be causing a worrying amount of ice to melt in Greenland

News

Wind and solar will still work in a climate-change ravaged Europe

Environment

Wind and solar will still work in a climate-change ravaged Europe

News

Brexit, 10,000 BC: The untold story of how Britain first left Europe

Earth

Brexit, 10,000 BC: The untold story of how Britain first left Europe

Features

'Digital sobriety' can halt tech-fuelled global warming, says report

Technology

'Digital sobriety' can halt tech-fuelled global warming, says report

News

EU sued for making global warming worse by subsidising wood burning

Environment

EU sued for making global warming worse by subsidising wood burning

The European Union is accelerating global warming and damaging forests worldwide by encouraging wood burning without counting the carbon emissions, says the lawsuit

News

Comment

Climate change is the new normal but we don’t seem to notice

Comment

Environment

Why is the UK so hot and can we enjoy the winter sunshine guilt-free?

News

Earth

Don't panic about The Uninhabitable Earth, a new book predicting chaos

Culture

Environment

Earth could warm by 14°C as growing emissions destroy crucial clouds

News