He said: “The Victoria Road section of the Environment Agency’s scheme, recently approved at the SRBC Planning Meeting, does not, in my view, represent the most rational or least disruptive design. “I live alongside the River Darwen, only a few hundred yards from the River Ribble, and I am keen to see solutions that do…
They are sounds from a section of forest that no longer exists. In December and January, scientists for the Bob Brown Foundation captured the call of the swift parrot, a critically endangered migratory species. The environment campaign group says it was recorded in an area marked for clear-felling in the Wielangta forest in Tasmania’s south-east….
Key members of the OPEC+ oil cartel will discuss on Sunday production quotas for next month as the US-Israeli war against Iran unsettles global oil markets. The eight-strong V8 (Voluntary Eight) group in the alliance, which includes top oil producers Saudi Arabia and Russia – as well as several Gulf states who have been hit…
Since before modern humans existed Rice’s whales have been diving to the depths of the ocean to gorge on fat-rich fish while growing to leviathan proportions, their bodies spanning the length of a bus and weighing as much as as six elephants. Unfortunately for these grand creatures, their only home became a patch of the…
The crackdown comes as the regulator confirms it made 10,000 inspections nationwide over the past year, with more than 860 of those focused on South West Water’s wastewater network alone. Inspectors uncovered a litany of issues: missing or broken screens designed to stop solid waste entering waterways, leaking pipes, cracked tanks and faulty monitoring equipment….
To go to work, to take the children to school, to visit the doctor to do your shopping… For many, today, the car is not a luxury but a necessity, and each increase in fuel prices eats a little more into already tight budgets. War, a jackpot for climate criminals The instability inherent in the…
The United Kingdom’s cocoa imports drove more than 2,000 hectares of deforestation in 2025 alone, mainly in Côte d’Ivoire (78%) and Ghana (18%), according to an analysis by climate NGO Global Witness. Total post-2021 losses linked to chocolate products exceeded 8,244 hectares. For all commodities — including palm oil, soy, beef, coffee and rubber…
Halton Borough Council has been awarded Tree City of the World status. This recognition comes from the Tree Cities of the World programme, a joint initiative by the Arbor Day Foundation and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The award acknowledges the council’s efforts in planting, growing, and maintaining trees for the benefit…
Opening major new fields in the North Sea would make almost no difference to the UK’s reliance on gas imports, research has shown. The Jackdaw field, one of the largest unexploited gasfields in the North Sea, would displace only 2% of the UK’s current imports of gas, which would leave the UK still almost entirely…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Istanbul ον Saturday for talks on energy and navigation security, and efforts to end the war with Russia, the Turkish presidency said. The visit came a day after Erdogan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who accused Kyiv of attempting to target the gas…
