Newcastle has been named one of the greenest universities in the UK.
Ranked 15th out of 143 universities in the People & Planet Green League 2013, the university has risen nine places since...
The Government has announced changes to planning guidance in England which will make sure that local communities will be given more powers in order to block onshore wind farms - an announcement tha...
June 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In celebration of this anniversary, 60 "Coronation Meadows" have been identified across the UK as part of a campaign to...
It's been revealed that the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) recently introduced Fees For Intervention (FFI) Scheme generated around £857,000 from 1 December...
Senior Tory backbencher Tim Yeo has put forward a plan to amend the Coalition Government's Energy Bill in order to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector by 2030. However, the plan...
Today is World Environment Day, which is celebrated on 5 June every year to spread global awareness about mother nature. Each year has a different theme, and this time round it's THINK.EAT.SAVE.
A waste crime lord has been sentenced to a further three years in prison, after failing to pay back the proceeds of his illegal business.
Hugh O'Donnell is still in prison serving four and...
A company boss has been sentenced to three years in prison for gross negligence manslaughter following the death of a worker at Swan Hunter shipyard in Wallsend, Newcastle.
After a four wee...
Aberdeen City Council has unveiled ambitious plans to turn a derelict landfill site into a giant solar power farm.
Working with the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG), the council are s...
A farmer from County Durham has been fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £4,000 in costs after a friend, who was helping him out on his farm in Stanley, fell approximately four metres throu...
John Lewis, trading as John Lewis Plant Hire and Contracts, has been sentenced at Laganside Crown Court. He received a suspended six month sentence on each of the five counts he pleaded guilty to.<...
A global defence company has been fined £250,000 and ordered to pay costs of £97,153 after one of its workers was crushed to death by a 145 tonne metal press.
The Healt...
According to a recent report, one in ten British animal and plant species could disappear. The State of Nature Report was compiled by 25 wildlife organisations and collated assessments of 3,148 spe...
An engineering firm based in the Midlands has been fined £133,000 after its emergency plans failed to prevent contaminated fire-fighting water and chemicals from polluting the River Anker.
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Scientists have warned that action must be taken on climate change after carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have broken through a symbolic threshold. A US Government agency lab, which feeds it...
