Talks to reach a climate deal at a United Nations summit in Glasgow will continue into this afternoon, after a Friday deadline passed without an agreement.COP26 president Alok Sharma told delegates that revised documents...

The Netherlands will return to a partial lockdown from Saturday amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, its government has announced.Under the three-week lockdown, bars, restaurants and supermarkets will have to close at 8pm, while...

World leaders have reached the most significant climate change pact since the landmark Paris Agreement, following a turbulent two weeks of fraught negotiations in Glasgow.With a stroke of the gavel, COP26 President Alok Sharma...

The guardians of one of Madagascar's forests are downright worried.There is just their small group standing between the Analamazaotra Forest they guard - and destruction. The odds are somewhat stacked against them. "We have 750...

Thousands of migrants are enduring freezing conditions at the Belarus-Poland border in the hope of a better life inside the EU.Two groups of migrants, mainly from Iraq, Syria and parts of Africa, are reported...

The US, EU and Marshall Islands are among nations to have demanded a contested fossil fuel statement lives on in a final agreement from COP26, as the Glasgow talks run into overtime.A call in...

Key requests that countries ramp up their climate action plans as soon as next year and phase out certain fossil fuels have survived the latest bruising round of negotiations at COP26, though the latter...

Oxfam has accused AstraZeneca of breaking its promises after the drugs firm said it planned to start earning a "modest" profit from its COVID-19 vaccine having previously sold it at cost.The Anglo-Swedish company has...