7,000 trees will be planted in London to improve air quality
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has announced that in order to help reduce air pollution and carbon dioxide (CO2),
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UK government has invested £60bn into overseas fossil fuel projects
The UK government is involved with financing overseas fossil fuel projects that when complete will produce an estimated 69 million
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Palm oil production is a major contributor to CO2 emissions
Preparing land for palm oil plantations releases high levels of CO2, according to research published in Nature Communications. Palm oil
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Responding to a climate emergency
Kirklees Council has a new ambitious plan to make the borough completely carbon neutral by 2038. Cabinet members backed the
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Starbucks to cut emissions by 2030, but is it soon enough?
In an open letter to the public, the CEO of Starbucks, Kevin Johnson has pledged that the company will become
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Climate crisis: we are not individuals fighting a faceless system – we are the system that needs to change
Tom Oliver, professor of applied ecology at the University of Reading, talks about human connectivity, and why individual action is
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School pupils invited to climate summit in Manchester
Over 300 pupils from schools across Manchester came together last Friday (January 17) for a summit on climate change. The
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UK land use must be transformed in order to reach net-zero, report says
If the UK is committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, then the way land is currently used must be
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UK Climate Assembly to discuss the future of the planet
This weekend, over 100 people will travel to Birmingham for the first meeting of the UK’s citizen assembly on climate
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Five ways to turn CO₂ from pollution to a valuable product
From using CO2 to make buildings or as plant fertilisers, Ella Adlen and Cameron Hepburn from the University of Oxford
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Scientists will look at the clouds to predict climate change
A group of international scientists have received funding for a new project to better understand the clouds and their role
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Coca-Cola pledges to clean up world’s rivers
Coca-Cola has launched an international river clean up, with $11m (£8.5m) pledged to clean up nine rivers across the world,
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Newcastle low carbon energy centre to heat 450 homes
A new district energy centre opened in Newcastle on Wednesday (January 15) which will use natural gas to generate low
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National Trust to plant 20 million trees in ten years
The National Trust has announced plans for the UK’s biggest woodland expansion, planting 20 million trees over the next ten
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UN biodiversity framework outlines a plan to avoid mass extinction
The U.N published a draft plan yesterday (January 13) outlining plans to prevent what scientists have called the sixth mass
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Controversial Australian coal mine given go ahead
German manufacturing company Siemens has announced that they will continue work on the controversial Adani coal mine, despite outrage from
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Scientists develop new crop growing technique that doesn’t require soil
University graduates have secured funding for a new sustainable farming technique that could help to tackle the increasing climate crisis
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Extinction Rebellion protests outside Australian Embassy against handling of bushfires
From 12pm today, protestors from Extinction Rebellion will be outside the Australian Embassy in London, protesting against the Australian government’s
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Bushfires ravage Australia, with climate change partly to blame
Wildfires have been ravaging Australia for several months, with fires beginning in September and continuing to spread today (January 7).
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London has more airborne microplastics than any other city
London has the highest level of airborne microplastics than any other major city, with 92% of these microplastics coming from
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