An employee who had only been working at a solar panel installation firm for two weeks had a lucky escape when he fell through the roof of a pig shed onto a soft layer of animal waste, avoiding sev...
Stores in Northern Ireland have reported a sharp drop in requests for plastic bags, just three weeks after the introduction of a 5p levy.
Most of the big supermarket chains are yet to repor...
A chemical firm has been fined £120,000 after an employee sustained severe burns when he was engulfed by a fireball at a factory in Wirral.
The 45 year old from Kirby was kept in an induced...
Scientists from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme have been monitoring ocean chemistry in the Arctic region, and have warned that CO2 emissions are causing a rapid acidifica...
The Supreme Court has ruled that the UK Government has failed in its legal duty under the Air Quality Directive to protect people from the harmful effects of air pollution.<...
The Government has been consulting on controversial new plans to extend permitted development rights to allow the construction of extensions of up to eight metres for detached houses and six metres...
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced a Triennial Review of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This is part of the Government's commitment to reform the pub...
Two companies have been fined a total of £794,658 after a driver was run over and killed by his own lorry.
Gary Walters was working for haulier Larkins Logistics Ltd when the incident...
Are you interested in debating how to create a sustainable future in your organisation or community and the economic implications?
If you are then you need to get yourself along to the Gree...
Derry City Council currently spends £1.6m every year on cleaning its streets. However, litterers are now being targeted in Londonderry and the Council has issued thousands of pounds in fines, with...
Smart-thinking bods at Newcastle University have constructed a pop-up cafe within the university's main campus which is entirely made from recycled materials, apart from the coffee.
Local e...
The 43rd annual Earth Day has arrived!
Earth Day, which was born in America in 1970, occurs on 22 April every year and is a day set aside to raise awareness of the environment and climate c...
As heartthrob Peter Andre was filming new scenes for his smash TV series "Peter Andre: My Life" near the Dungeness B power station in Kent, little did he know that the plant was spilling a radioact...
An international chemical firm, Tata Chemicals Europe Ltd, has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for multiple incidents which put them in breach of th...
Leading environmental figures have condemned Government plans to drop debate about climate change from the national curriculum for children under 14 as "unfathomable and unacceptable".
In a...
