Roadside verges crucial for bees and butterflies
Roadside verges must be managed better to attract pollinators such as bees, butterflies and hoverflies, a report has said. With
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Innovative solar box could cool city buildings
Engineers have designed a new system that can help cool buildings in cities without consuming electricity. Details of the system,
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Interview: Mike Berners-Lee on why there is no Planet B
Mike Berners-Lee is a writer and sustainability expert at Lancaster University researching the global food system and climate change. He
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Councils urged to do more to tackle single-use plastic waste
Nearly two-thirds of councils are unaware of how many single-use plastic bottles they’ve bought in the last five years, new
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Construction industry unsure about costs and benefits of sustainable buildings
Sustainable buildings are becoming more mainstream but the construction industry still doesn’t know enough about how valuable they are, a
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Climate change taking its toll on human health, report finds
Climate change is already posing major risks to people’s health with the problem only set to get worse if urgent
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Interview: Edward Davey on the ‘ethical value’ of individual climate action
Edward Davey is the Project Director at World Resources Institute and has worked for The Prince of Wales’s International Sustainability
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Nine-hour working week may be necessary to avert climate disaster
The UK may need to drastically reduce its working hours to avoid a climate disaster, a study has concluded. The
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How to….empower children to build their own sustainable city
By 2030, over 92% of UK citizens will live in cities, and as the recent youth strikes made crystal clear,
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Progress on UK’s Environment Plan ‘encouraging’, Defra claims
The UK is making ‘encouraging’ progress towards the environmental goals set out in its 25 Year Environment Plan, the government
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UK government must set 2050 net zero carbon target, says report
The UK government must set a target of 2050 for a net-zero emissions economy, but they must ‘significantly ramp-up’ policies
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How to…turn cocoa beans into electricity for off-grid Ghanaian farmers
UK researchers have developed a new green technology to generate electricity from discarded cocoa pod husks, which they hope will
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Farmers should be better funded for reducing emissions, says Green Alliance
A funding scheme for farmers to improve their natural habitats should be expanded to help them reduce emissions, says the
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Kingfisher to phase out high-risk chemicals from its products
International home improvement company Kingfisher will phase three chemical groups out of its own branded products by 2025, it has
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Millions could miss out on benefits of electric vehicles
Millions of people could miss out on the environmental and financial benefits of electric vehicles (EVs), according to a new
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How Nottingham Trent Basin is generating clean electricity
Nottingham Trent Basin is a current example of how a switch to low-carbon living could be possible. Not only is
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No deal or hard Brexit could increase electricity costs by £270 million a year
The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) says a no-deal or hard Brexit could increase electricity generation costs by £270m a
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Watford to introduce air pollution-combating CityTree
Watford will be the latest town to introduce an innovative CityTree to help combat air pollution. The CityTree, which is
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District heat networks could meet 50% of the UK’s heat demand, report says
District heat networks could meet 50% of the UK’s heat demand and save the UK economy £3bn, according to a report.
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In Practice: how to stop the dangerous chemicals seeping into our water
Mikael Khan of water treatment company, Arvia, discusses why chemical waste entering the environment is becoming harder to tackle in
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