1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (639+ words) "Frozen Scotland scampi." Image for illustrative purposes only. Image: Alpha / Creative Commons 2. 0." Scampi fishing in the North Sea is driving a "largely invisible" climate cost by disturbing carbon that has been buried in seabeds for thousands of years, scientists have…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (775+ words) We stood in Parliament Square spelling out the need to "up the energy" on government commitments to expanding community-owned energy earlier this month." The illuminated words accompanied the delivery of an open letter, signed by 250 people and organisations led by…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (967+ words) Penn Wood ancient woodland in summer. Image: The Woodland Trust / PA Wire England is "running out of time" to rescue nature-rich ancient woodlands buried under 20th century tree plantations, conservationists have warned. The Woodland Trust warns the British Government is falling…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1744+ words) The results are in. Universal free public transport, introduced in Montpellier in southern France in December 2023, is proving to be a runaway success. A Mobility Observatory set up by the local authority has published a report on the first two…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1317+ words) "R'vnnjit" (stream) by M'ret "nne Sara / Kautokeino. Image: Izzy Pennington / With Permission." A flicker of irritation ripples across the backs of a herd of reindeer as they are bitten relentlessly by insects on a summer pasture of S'pmi. Having shed…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago  (943+ words) The King of Limbs oak tree inspired a Radiohead album, in Wiltshire. Lee Cooper / Woodland Trust / PA Wire." British oaks are facing multiple threats which could spell "disaster" for the country's most important tree and the wider natural world, experts…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1672+ words) Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, speaking at the Green Investment Summit, Glasgow in 2021. Image: Scottish Government / Creative Commons 2. 0. London is missing its own targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions from road transport by ever-greater margins. The relentless rise in the…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (412+ words) Meat. This image is used for illustrative purposes only." Consignments of meat and animal product imports are avoiding British border checks in "drive-bys" that raise the risk of disease hitting the country, MPs have warned. Parliament's Environmental, Food and Rural…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (804+ words) A person on the promenade in Clontarf, Dublin, watches the rough sea. Image: Brian Lawless / PA Wire Sea levels around the world's coasts are higher than modelling often assumes, potentially putting millions more people at risk from rising oceans, scientists…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (594+ words) A six spot burnet moth. Image: Royal Horticultural Society / Press Handout / PA Wire." Moths have long played second fiddle to butterflies." First it was "love your slugs, now conservationists and horticulturalists are teaming up to urge gardeners to let caterpillars…...