Environment

The organisation has written to Shropshire Council to lodge a formal objection to plans from Taylor Wimey and Persimmon Homes. The firms want to build up to 430 homes on land at Weir Hill, which is off Preston Street to the east of Shrewsbury. The companies have already built more than 600 homes at Weir…

The beach, the sea and of course the ice creams. Everyone loves the Cleethorpes coastline, but how much do you really know? Helping protect our natural heritage and teaching people about it is the Dynamic Understanding of the Natural Environment (DUNE) project, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Looking at key areas of our…

• The EU spent €67 bn on oil imports for cars last year• Accelerating the roll-out of EVs would cut oil imports by €45bn over the next decade Petrol car drivers can expect to be hit far harder by price rises related to the Iran conflict than electric vehicle drivers, new analysis finds. With oil prices…

Smoke rises after a strike on fuel tanks at an oil refinery in Tehran, amid the conflict between the US, Israel and Iran, on March 8, 2026. MAJID ASGARIPOUR/VIA REUTERS Since the attack on Iran by Israel and the US on February 28, more than 300 incidents with environmental risks have been recorded by the…

Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter worldwide. Trillions are discarded every year in cities, parks, beaches, along railway tracks and roadside environments. Despite their small size, these … Source link

Campaigners are calling for real-time pollution alerts at Windermere after a seven-year-old boy nearly died from an E. coli infection contracted while kayaking on the lake. Rex Earley began to feel unwell on a late August afternoon last year after returning with his family from a 45-minute kayaking trip on the lake. He went to…

Finding out who owns land in England is to become much simpler because a paywall will be lifted from large parts of the Land Registry, the government is to announce. A small number of landowners control the majority of land but finding out who owns what is difficult to piece together, even for government departments,…

The Greek name for this southernmost tip of the Peloponnese is linked to a Byzantine fort at Cape Tigani (called Megali Maina), but it may well also draw on the region’s desolate, mountainous rocky country that persists throughout the entire peninsula. The fierce Maniot people were well described by Patrick Leigh Fermor in his book…

Italy, France and seven other European Union countries have warned the European Commission that a damaged Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier adrift in the Mediterranean poses a serious environmental threat, Reuters reported Monday. Russia said that Ukrainian naval drones struck the LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz on March 3 near Malta’s territorial waters. “The precarious…