High demand for Fairtrade products sees Green pound reach record levels
High consumer demand for Fairtrade products, including cocoa, bananas, wine, gold, and cosmetic reflects an increased shopper awareness of sustainability among shoppers, research shows.
According...
Fresh wave of EV chargers confirmed for Trafford
Trafford Council has announced its latest sustainability push - installing a wave of cutting-edge EV chargers in partnership with charging network Be.EV.
Two dozen state...
2023 was second warmest year on record for UK
2023 was provisionally the second warmest year on record for the UK says the Met Office
2023’s provisional mean temperature of 9.97°C puts it just...
Future summers could last longer hints Met Office research
England is likely to experience longer, drier summers later this decade that could worsen the risk of droughts, according to the Met Office, which...
A range of polluting single-use plastics will be banned from October 2023
A range of polluting single-use plastics will be banned in England, Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey has announced today.
The ban will include single-use plastic plates,...
Co-op invests £19M to strengthen support for pig farmers
The Co-op has called on other leading supermarkets to go the whole ‘hog’ and support the UK pig farming sector by shifting their sourcing...
Carbon Dioxide build up in atmosphere forecast in 2024 to be higher than required...
The build-up of atmospheric carbon-dioxide between 2023 and 2024 is forecast to be faster than that required to track IPCC scenarios that limit global...
Scientists challenge claim British rivers are “cleanest since Industrial Revolution”
Water quality is still ‘unacceptably poor’ in many British rivers, research has shown
The study challenges recent claims from UK government that water quality in...
Manchester is going carbon neutral – will other cities follow suit?
The term “carbon neutral” wasn’t widely recognised in 2005, but just a year later, the Oxford Dictionary named it as its word of the...
Unusual beach finds show scale of pollution problem
A ‘Claws’ crisp packet from 1976 and a bottle of rum from post-Prohibition America are among the unusual items found washed up on Britain’s...