More than £260 million will be spent creating 9,323 hectares of woodland across England over the next four years under...
Thames Water ban kicks in as huge swathes of south face supply pressure
A hosepipe ban covering the entire Thames Water supply area comes into force today as prolonged dry weather places growing...
Agriculture experiment keeps going 170 years after it began!
One of the world’s longest-running scientific experiments has reached its 170th anniversary while continuing to reveal how fertilisers alter soil...
Plants are heating up hampering their ability to capture carbon
Plants could become hotter faster than the surrounding air as the climate warms, increasing pressure on ecosystems and weakening their...
Sustainable space? Rocket rubbish is building up in orbit says UN
Around 140 million pieces of space debris larger than one millimetre are orbiting Earth as a new generation of lunar...
Make Big Oil pay for Europe’s heat protection, campaigners demand
Fossil fuel companies should be forced to fund urgent measures protecting Europeans from deadly heatwaves, climate campaigners have said.Environmental group...
Climate mitigation plans are ignoring gender and population growth factors
Climate adaptation plans are failing to account for rapid population growth and the disproportionate impact of extreme weather on women...
Clean air measures have saved nearly 14,000 lives and £15bn
Local authority action to improve air quality in England has prevented an estimated 13,722 deaths and delivered around £15 billion...
Too hot to handle – homes roast in heatwaves
The number of homes in England reporting overheating has almost doubled in five years, rising from 1.7 million in 2019...
House builder fined £300k for sewage spill
Duncan Andison / Shutterstock.comTaylor Wimpey UK has been fined £300,000 after construction debris blocked a sewer and sent raw sewage...