Lucie Heath

A moth previously believed to be extinct and an orchid not seen in the wild for almost 100 years are among the weird and wonderful species spotted in the UK this year. Britain’s biodiversity continues to decline at an alarming rate, but environmentalists ... See more

This story is being published as part of an investigation into the UK Government bankrolling fossil fuel projects in Africa, which you can read in full . Along the coastline of Awudum, a suburb in south-eastern Ghana, houses balance precariously over a sl... See more

The UK Government has been criticised for using British taxpayers’ cash to fund at least 18 oil and gas projects in Africa and Asia while committing to reducing carbon emissions at home. Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, Britain’s aid budget h... See more

Thirty years ago the village of Aboadze in western Ghana was sustained almost entirely by fish. Most men went out on wooden canoes each day to catch sardines, anchovies and tuna. Women would smoke the fish and sell them at local markets. They’d feed their... See more

The UK Government has been bankrolling polluting fossil fuel projects in Africa and Asia while publicly committing to net zero at home, The i Paper can reveal. Hundreds of millions of pounds of Britain’s international aid budget is invested in oil and gas... See more