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Our wildlife series Young Country Diary is looking for articles written by children, about their winter encounters with nature ...

Government keen to avoid panic as oil price surges, but perhaps households need advice on reducing consumption ...

South Korea will delay the shutdown of coal-fired plants, while the Philippines also plans to boost the output of its coal-burning plants ...

Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot ...

The government's Simpler Recycling legislation - aimed at increasing recycling rates - came into effect yesterday ...

Critics say exemption exploits White House's 'self-made gas crisis', and could doom the rare Rice's whale ...

Merlin could disappear in worst-case scenario, with British isles facing ecological 'point of no return'

Brittlestars, sea anemones and a catshark among new-to-science species collected during expedition off the Queensland coast ...

Critics say president is locking into 20th century energy systems even as his 'bet' on oil and gas 'isn't going so well'

A death rate of up to 90%, attributed to warming seas, is threatening the trade in Hiroshima prefecture, which produces most of the country's farmed oysters ...