Environment

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025
a homeless man in hot weather
Homelessness

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025

Councils across England and Wales provide shelter to rough sleepers when temperatures soar. Local authorities stepped in at least 149 times by mid-July this year compared to 93 times across the entirety of summer in 2024
How did net zero get so politically toxic?
Net Zero

How did net zero get so politically toxic?

Labour wants to ban fracking – while Reform wants to ‘drill baby drill’. What does it mean for you?
fracking

Labour wants to ban fracking – while Reform wants to ‘drill baby drill’. What does it mean for you?

Top Stories

Wildfires are on the rise in Britain. So how do we protect ourselves?
Climate change

Wildfires are on the rise in Britain. So how do we protect ourselves?

These people re-traced Charles Darwin’s voyage around the world. This is what they learned
Darwin200

These people re-traced Charles Darwin’s voyage around the world. This is what they learned

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

Climate crisis

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How did net zero get so politically toxic?
Net Zero

How did net zero get so politically toxic?

Wildfires are on the rise in Britain. So how do we protect ourselves?
Climate change

Wildfires are on the rise in Britain. So how do we protect ourselves?

In a post-truth world, science needs storytelling to give evidence meaning
Opinion

In a post-truth world, science needs storytelling to give evidence meaning

Calls for major change to health and safety laws as UK battered by yet another heatwave
Man mopping his head to illustrate a story on heatwaves
Heatwave

Calls for major change to health and safety laws as UK battered by yet another heatwave

Green living

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How to talk about climate justice and help create a more equal world
Children playing on the playground at green-blue open space in Jakarta on 13 July 2023.
Climate justice

How to talk about climate justice and help create a more equal world

Climate anxiety: What is it and how can you cope?
Climate Change

Climate anxiety: What is it and how can you cope?

Air pollution: How to protect yourself from the deadly consequences of dirty air
Air Pollution

Air pollution: How to protect yourself from the deadly consequences of dirty air

Looking to be more sustainable? Here’s our top 10 tips to reduce your carbon emissions
airbus plane in the sky releasing carbon emissions
Carbon Footprint

Looking to be more sustainable? Here’s our top 10 tips to reduce your carbon emissions

Environment explainers

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What are 15-minute cities? The truth behind the conspiracy theory seeping into UK government
street in Oxford with loads of bicycles
15-Minute Cities

What are 15-minute cities? The truth behind the conspiracy theory seeping into UK government

Will net zero make you broke? Here’s all the support on offer to make the switch
net zero help
Net zero

Will net zero make you broke? Here’s all the support on offer to make the switch

Nutrient neutrality: Why scrapping EU pollution rules to boost housebuilding has caused uproar
Changing river pollution to boost housebuilding has enraged the RSPB
Environment

Nutrient neutrality: Why scrapping EU pollution rules to boost housebuilding has caused uproar

Everything you need to know about London’s Ulez scrappage scheme
Ulez sign in London
Ulez

Everything you need to know about London’s Ulez scrappage scheme

Air pollution

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Labour promised to reduce health inequality – here’s how they can deliver
Mark Heffernan

Labour promised to reduce health inequality – here’s how they can deliver

Statue of girl killed by air pollution should be reminder of dangers of toxic air, says mother
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah stands with a statue of her daughter, Ella
Air pollution

Statue of girl killed by air pollution should be reminder of dangers of toxic air, says mother

How shuttered airports could be brought back to life to tackle UK’s housing crisis
Alma-nac's vision for Robin Hood Airport
Housing crisis

How shuttered airports could be brought back to life to tackle UK’s housing crisis

What are 15-minute cities? The truth behind the conspiracy theory seeping into UK government
street in Oxford with loads of bicycles
15-Minute Cities

What are 15-minute cities? The truth behind the conspiracy theory seeping into UK government

Plastic pollution

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Would you buy a record sleeve without the vinyl inside? It’s one way to reduce plastic
Record Store Day

Would you buy a record sleeve without the vinyl inside? It’s one way to reduce plastic

Plastic recycling is failing – here’s how the world must respond
Plastic recycling has a much higher cost than you realise.

Plastic recycling is failing – here’s how the world must respond

Meet the woman with a ‘radical’ solution to water pollution
Lizzie Carr, founder of Planet Patrol, sitting on a paddle board
Water pollution

Meet the woman with a ‘radical’ solution to water pollution

Government ‘risks harm to health and environment’ by not banning disposable vapes
Pollution

Government ‘risks harm to health and environment’ by not banning disposable vapes

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