
The annual Ladder Exchange scheme is up and running through until December this year!
In the scheme, users of ladders can take damaged, old or broken ladders to participating partners to ex...

The Labour party are looking to table amendments to the Infrastructure Bill, including the tightening of rules for companies drilling for shale gas.
Caroline Flint, ...

In 2013 the Government began a much contested and controversial trial badger cull as a response to the threat posed by bovine TB to Britain's cattle. However, the trial failed to meet its targets a...

'Alarming' levels of plastic pollution are being detected in the Sydney, Australia, harbour area.
The new damning research comes after weeks of Australian environmental policies hitting the...

A County Durham dairy has been fined after a worker fell from a loading bay and sustained serious injuries.
The worker, Simon Atkinson, 41, was hospitalised for nine days with injuries incl...

Similar to the unannounced visits to construction sites by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) at the beginning of this year, the Health and Safety Exe...

Within the past 20 years, the amount of glacier melting as a result of human activity has soared. This information has become available after a study was conducted by the University of Innsbruck in...

In an article published, the Environmentalist highlights the benefits of "better use of resources" in a study undertaken by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
"I...

EDF Energy have announced the temporary shut down of four nuclear reactors, two in Hartlepool and two in Lancashire.
The "conservative decision" taken by EDF Energy will see a reduction in...

A worker was seriously injured in an accident whilst handling acetylene, with two more suffering lesser injuries.
Acetylene is highly unstable when in it's natural gas state, and exploded w...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), as a statutory consultee in the town planning process, offers land use planning advice to local planning authoriti...

A partnership of organisations and businesses in Newcastle-upon-Tyne who are committed to promoting healthier and more sustainable ways of growing, harvesting, buying, cooking, eating and wasting f...

The Guardian has published an article with Glyndebourne festival, discussing the festival becoming the very first to be powered by renewable energy, after installing a 67 metre wind turbine.
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The Environment Agency launched the electronic duty of care (edoc) system in January as an alternative to the paper waste transfer note. As records of waste transfers can be...

The instruction of "mind the gap" is something that has become synonymous with the London Underground. A man in Australia, however, has shown exactly why this is so important after, when trying to...