Environment

The agreement sets out mandatory minimum safety standards for fishing vessels, more than 24 m in length, and their crew, as well as the combating of illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing. Coming into force next year, the Cape Town Agreement is expected to boost safety standards for tens of thousands of vessels world-wide, covering areas…

Susana is helping shape a more sustainable future by placing education at the centre of environmental action. As an Erasmus+ coordinator at her school, she connects local learning with international collaboration, ensuring that sustainability is not only taught but experienced. Her teaching approach is rooted in real-life application. By linking lessons to everyday challenges, she…

A beach in Southampton, New York, treated with olivine sand Chayenne Moreau The first trial to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide by adding crushed olivine to the ocean had no adverse effects on the seafloor ecosystem in its first year. While the results of the trial in New York state are promising for this carbon-removal technique,…

The company applied to vary the permit to introduce an effluent treatment plant to reduce PFAS chemical contamination on its site. It follows a public consultation on the Agency’s draft decision to approve the variation, which took place earlier this year. The decision is based on Angus Fire demonstrating that it has met and will…

By Clare Webb, Countryside Code Project Manager at Natural England.  In this blog, Countryside Code Project Manager Clare Webb reflects on the evolution of the code over the last 75 years, and how her work has changed to accommodate evolving social and environmental landscapes while retaining the core message: respect, protect, enjoy. Respect, protect and…

Smog contains particles that reflect the sun’s rays and cool Earth’s surface Dennis MacDonald/Alamy Cleaning up air pollution in Europe and North America could result in more weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an ocean current that is critical for Europe’s climate. The smog and soot dirtying the air around the world claim…

Private jets should be banned and the speed limit on UK motorways reduced to 60mph as part of a pre-emptive effort to ease the looming fuel supply crisis, according to leading climate and transport organisations. The group – including Greenpeace and Transport and Environment – are calling on ministers not to “sleepwalk into a crisis”…

Every community project starts somewhere. With a conversation. A cup of tea. A few people asking, “What if we tried this?” Or simply noticing what people around them need. The National Lottery Community Fund [NC1] is celebrating those starts – the moments when people come together and decide to act. Because even small actions can grow…

Wood heating is reintroducing lead into the air of local communities and homes, a systematic investigation by academics has found. Overwhelming evidence of lead’s neurotoxicity meant the metal was banned as an additive in petrol more than 25 years ago. The research by academics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst began by analysing samples of…