A U-turn by the UK’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom means it will investigate complaints of climate change denial on television and radio for the first time since 2017. The move marks a victory for campaigners who have accused the regulator of allowing some broadcasters “to spout dangerous climate lies” and “flout” rules on accuracy and impartiality….
Barnaby Joyce is not what most people would describe as a reliable commentator on the climate crisis, though he can sometimes be memorable on a microphone. In 2009, the then National party senator said, without evidence, that Labor’s doomed carbon pricing scheme would inflate the cost of a lamb roast to more than $100. It…
Ministers have ignored a report warning that Britain’s food supply is on course to collapse, The Times can reveal. The report, finished in 2024, said that climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability were undermining Britain’s food security to such a degree that it could be “at strategic risk of catastrophic failure” by 2030. Drawing…
Ministers have said expanding North Sea drilling would put the UK at further risk from volatile fossil fuel markets, amid calls from the Conservatives and some Labour MPs to breach the manifesto pledge of no new oil and gas licences. The energy minister Michael Shanks said the UK was “learning the right lessons from this…
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Robert Forrester has backed calls for former chief executive Sir James Bevan to be stripped of his knighthood. Regulators at the Environment Agency turned a blind eye to water companies dumping sewage, a whistleblower has told LBC. Robert Forrester, a former Environment Agency employee who for years secretly documented the failings, has joined calls for…
3 Mapping behaviour changes required to meet Scotland’s biodiversity objectives This chapter presents the findings of the literature review, with a focus on evidence gathered from Phase 1 of the literature review on identifying and categorising key behaviours relevant to improving biodiversity in Scotland and beyond. It also highlights key concepts in the literature on…
The head of the UK’s national green energy champion has joined other high-profile renewable energy leaders in making the case for more North Sea oil and gas production as the government braces for an energy cost crisis. The GB Energy boss, Jürgen Maier, used a social media post on LinkedIn to reject the claim that…
Roger and Suzanne Brookhouse bought the Grade-II listed King’s Lodging, a medieval house on the banks of the River Stour in Sandwich, Kent, in 1991. Source link
“It’s very hard to imagine what’s going on beneath the water when you look at a river – but you have billions of fish making these epic migrations, some of the largest animal migrations on Earth,” said Dr Zeb Hogan, at the University of Nevada in the US. The longest migration of any freshwater fish…
