
According to recent satellite data, an area the size of a football pitch is being cleared from the Amazon rainforest every minute by logging corporations.
The forest provides a valuable nat...

The key message coming out of new research is that we should be planting trees in order to make a dramatic impact on climate change. The study discovered that the Earth has an area the size of the...

As Northern Ireland's household recycling rates overtake England's for the first time, £23 million is planned to be spent on investments for schemes to make recycling easier in the...

A reclassification of companies on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has diverted Oil and Gas companies to be listed as a 'non-renewable energy' in order to help to distinguish them between heavy pol...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are urging Local Authorities across the country to work with others to improve health and safety standards in the sectors they regulate...

A recent survey found that a growing number the Conservative party voters are pressuring the Government to scrap the block on new wind turbines built on land.
In 2014 David Cameron, then Pr...

New data from the federal Government has shown that the US generated more electricity from renewable sources than coal for the first time in April.
Clean energy like wind and solar provided...

An Ipswich packaging company has offered to pay nearly £20,000 to two environmental charities after admitting it had contravened Regulations.
The infringement of the Producer Responsi...

Heathrow Airport has published its preferred masterplan for the future layout of the airport, which includes the construction of a third runway.
The masterplan will be out for consulta...

One of the UK's largest waste management companies has been convicted of breaking the law on overseas exports.
The Environment Agency prosecuted Biffa Waste Services...

Southern Water has been hit with a record £126 million punishment for spills of wastewater into the environment from its sewage plants, and for deliberately misreporting its performance.
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A grain store company has been fined following the death of a worker at its site in Linton, Cambridgeshire.
Peterborough Crown Court heard how in July 2016 an employee of Camgrain ...

A stone masonry company has been sentenced after failing to adequately control employees' exposure to respirable silica dust, resulting in an employee developing silicosis.
Burnley Magistra...

The Director of a waste haulage company and a landowner have been ordered to pay £6,435 for illegally depositing thousands of tonnes of waste on farmland near Tiverton.
In 2016 CB Pla...

Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) president Ian Tant has said planners lack the resources, policies and powers to make the "significant impact that is essential" to meet the Government's target...