From 2025, billpayers across England will begin to reimburse a shareholder investment of £10 billion in the nation’s sewerage works.

Billpayers face rising costs for decades as they repay the entire £10 billion investment that has been promised.

Customers face higher bills after water companies promised the biggest upgrade to sewers ‘since the Victorian era’.

Heating of this magnitude above pre-industrial levels has never been recorded in human history, Met Office experts said.

Massive shifts in policy, markets and production are needed to meet the target, while delay could add millions more tonnes of waste.

Pests and diseases such as the fungus ash dieback are arriving in the UK through potted plant or sapling imports.

Judge Silas Reid had told jurors in a climate activist trial to disregard any feelings they may have about climate change when choosing a verdict.

The caffeinated bean consumed by millions in the UK will become increasingly difficult to grow as temperatures in the tropics rise.

The polluted upper catchment of the river is also home to rare chalk streams and unique plants and animals.

Dunlin Ltd, owner of Midhope Moor in the Peak District, admitted six charges of burning without a licence.

A new report analysed 55 law firms over a five-year period which the authors said are ‘enabling climate destruction’.

The Norwegian company is waiting for UK Government approval to begin extracting up to 500 million barrels of oil from the North Atlantic.

An invasive species of wasp and a fungus are spreading across Europe and threatening the species, experts have warned.

An extreme, out-of-season heatwave in southern Europe and North Africa saw temperatures rise about 20C higher than usual.

A survey from the charity Christian Aid has found widespread support for greater tax increases on record profits to pay for climate reparations.

Testing appeared to confirm residents’ fears that harmful waste is spilling from a quarry in Ynysddu, Gwent.

The Humane League said ministers had misinterpreted the law in allowing farmers to breed fast-growing chickens.

More than three-quarters of the samples taken by researchers had levels of lead higher than the amount permitted by law.

A review of the current evidence from Imperial College London found there is no safe limit for particulate matter.