Mark Townsend

We can’t say we haven’t been warned – rising temperatures, disappearing coastlines and dire predictions that climate change poses a greater threat than global terror … Yet still we fly, drive, consume and pollute like never before. Where will it all end, asks Mark Townsend

A return to commercial whaling and the type of butchery not seen for the better part of a century will move closer this week with Japan expected to secure enough support at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission to ensure a pro-whaling majority for the first time in 20 years.

Extinction threat rises as creatures ingest ‘gender-bending’ chemicals from plastics and pesticides

Hundreds of troops will be deployed to defend vital supermarket depots in the event of fresh fuel protests in the autumn.