A new report, "the Comparative value of on-site vs off-site biodiversity net gain for restoring nature" has been published, which suggests that encouraging more off-site biodiversity net gain (BNG)...
Bestway Northern Limited, a grocery supplier based in London, has been fined £1 million and ordered to pay costs of £11,950.17 after having pleaded guilty to breaching the
Today (Friday 25 July) is National Schizophrenia Awareness Day (NSAD), which is a chance for all of us to learn the truth about a condition affecting so many people in the UK.
It is a chanc...
Samaritans Awareness Day (24 July) shines a spotlight on suicide prevention and the power of listening.
Samaritans Awareness Day forms the centrepiece of the wider Talk to Us campaign, whic...
The Welsh Government have delivered a recent update on a Welsh Deposit Return Scheme (DRS).
Back in 2019, Scotland announced they would be establishing a DRS to seek to promote and sec...
Today, 21 July 2025, the English and Welsh water industry is facing calls for its most radical overhaul in decades, following the publication of a report by the Independent Water Commission.
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Between 2023 and 2024, serious water pollution incidents caused by water companies in England increased by 60%.
In total, there were 2,174 pollution incidents in 2023 compared with 2,801 po...
Bees' Needs Week (14-20 July) starts today, which is an annual event run by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), working with a range of organisat...
Campaigner group Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) is calling for public backing of their plan to challenge the planning permission for the expansion of Wimbledon tennis courts by the All England Lawn Tenn...
An energy storage system proposed to be built on grey belt land in Lancashire has been approved following an appeal.
"Grey belt" land is a relatively new concept. It is considered in nation...
According to the latest Public Attitudes Tracker from the Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), public support for renewable energy in the UK has dropped.
A group of academics with expertise in economics, water governance and legislation, in an exclusive report seen by The Guardian, found that public ownership of the water industry is the best way to...
Researchers have found that 500 bird species could vanish within the next century, calling for urgent "special recovery programmes" such as captive breeding and habitat restoration to rescue unique...
Following a consultation that ran from 11 November 2024 to 20 January 2025, the Environment Agency has introduced new charges aimed at tackling waste...
The European Commission has announced that the EU should cut its emissions by 90% by 2040, in a proposed change to its climate law that falls short of what its scientists ha...
