Environment
With the world facing a climate emergency, everyone feels compelled to recycle but is it as easy as made out? Across the UK, councils employ different methods and plans to recycling, making for confusing guidelines that change by area. With products sometimes comprising of several materials it can also be confusing on how best to recycle, running the risk of contaminating recycled materials and sending everything to landfill.
Rain swells rivers to record levels as police fear extreme UK weather has claimed its fifth victim.
It's made from soybeans and linked to deforestation. Should we be ditching it altogether? It's not that simple.
The death of OR-54 in California has been called a "tragic development" by environmentalists.
Fashion is a trillion-dollar industry – and the second-biggest polluter on the planet. Demand for cheap clothes has led to a rise in fast fashion, and every year we send over £140 million worth of clothes to landfill, while one in six of us have as many as five things in our wardrobe that we’ve never even worn. Here is exactly how fast fashion is harming the environment, and what you can do to stop it.
Bumblebee populations are declining, disappearing at rates "consistent with a mass extinction". Here's why you should care.
Once the ban comes into effect, motorists will only be able to buy electric or hydrogen cars and vans.
At MHA Stratton House, a care home for over-65s, residents have been doing their part to help the environment. From recycling hearing aid batteries, to growing their own vegetables, to making Ecobricks - bottles filled with waste plastic that be sent away to use as building material - the group are out to prove that you're never too old to make a difference.
As scores of koalas battle to recover from Australia's destructive fires, hopeful stories of survivors are emerging.
The $1,450 vessel was taken from Crowdy Bay National Park in New South Wales.