Fire safety behaviour change central to UK built environment reform, says Fire Aware

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New reforms to stop waste criminals from exploiting loopholes

New reforms are set to tighten the net on waste criminals with tougher sentences for those illegally dumping waste, and advanced background checks to help put rogue operators out of business.   As part of the major crackdown on waste criminals, underpinned by the government’s Waste Crime Action Plan, laws being laid this week will require waste handlers to prove they are qualified to transport waste.  The current registration system is broken and outdated, relying on a basic registration process with limited…

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EEA launches 2026 photo competition — Resilient by Nature | Press releases

Press releasePublished 18 May 2026 ImageJosé Reyes Belzunce, Urban Treasures/EEA What is the relationship between nature and society? That is the key theme of this year’s European Environment Agency (EEA) 2026 photo competition ‘Resilient by Nature’ launched today, which invites citizens across Europe to capture the many ways nature sustains life, responds to pressures and…

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Why PFAS Persist in the Environment and Food Chain

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large class of molecules characterized primarily by alkyl chains in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine, although this definition has recently expanded to also include substances containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon (e.g., –CF₂– or –CF₃ groups). In perfluoroalkyl substances, all hydrogen…

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Australian Environment & Planning Year in Review 2025

Welcome to our Australian Environment & Planning 2025 Year in Review Our national Environment, Planning and First Nations team is delighted to publish our inaugural Environment & Planning Year in Review. This publication covers legislative, policy and judicial developments in Australia during 2025 relating to environmental and planning law, climate regulation, protection of biodiversity and…

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Agri-environmental policies have reduced cropland degradation globally

Quantifying cropland condition In this study, we defined cropland condition as a trend in biological productivity, measured using the EVI net of agro-climatic factors and agricultural inputs. A growing number of studies use remotely sensed data such as the EVI or normalized difference vegetation index to measure land degradation16,43,49,50. A negative trend in these indicators…

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