On 12 February 2024 the Biodiversity Gain Regulations came into force.
These Regulations establish the system for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), which is a form of creating and improving natu...
The UK’s leading agricultural research facility is facing a funding crisis with its future work in jeopardy. Rothamsted Research is pausing all ‘non-essential’ work, announcing a...
Global warming has been above 1.5°C across an entire year according to the latest data from the EUs climate service. This is the first time this has happened since word leaders pledged via the...
Plans to scrap proposals halving pesticide use across the European Union (EU) have been announced by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Farmers in many EU countries...
A waste offender has been sentenced to 250 hours of unpaid community service over 18 months as well as a £2,000 fine after being caught running an illegal waste transfer station and depositin...
Today (1 February 2024) is Time to Talk Day, which is the nation's' biggest mental health conversation, run by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, in partnership with the Co-op.
It is a day fo...
On 15 January 2024, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched the campaign "Asbestos: Your Duty", which aims to improve understanding of what the legal duty to manage a...
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has launched a new database containing chemicals registrations required under Regulation (EC) 19...
Historic England has added a Finnish Sauna located in Kent to its National Heritage List for England. The sauna will now enjoy protection via Grade II listing.
The s...
Beauty companies will have to pay more to clean up microplastic pollution after EU negotiators struck a new deal to treat sewage.
Under draft rules that follow the "polluter pays principle"...
Bottom trawling, which involves pulling giant nets across the seabed to catch fish, is a common method used in fishing. While scientists have been aware that this churns up carbon from the sea floo...
A North Yorkshire man has received a suspended prison sentence for the illegal deposit of waste on the River Swale flood plain.
In a case brought by the Environment Agen...
In Rennie v Secretary of State for the Home Department in July 2023, the claimants applied for judicial review of a decision of the Secretary of State not to implem...
In R. (on the application of Substation Action Save East Suffolk Ltd) v Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, the appellant appealed against the refusal of its claims for ju...
