Picturing a thirsty earth

The winner of this year’s Photography4Humanity prize is Indian photographer Apratim Pal, for his picture “A Thirsty Earth”, which captures both the environmental and human costs...

Tesco powers into the new year with the UK’s first commercial electric articulated HGVs...

Tesco will power into the new year by launching the UK’s first commercially used fully electric heavy freight articulated trucks. Two new 37 tonne...

£5m scheme to retrofit Salford’s buildings is underway

A £5m scheme to make Salford’s public buildings more energy efficient is now underway with hundreds of tonnes of carbon set to be lifted...

Rochdale’s My Earth event inspires with planet saving ideas

Hundreds of visitors to the 'My Earth' event in Rochdale got ideas and inspiration to help address the climate change emergency . The day, staged...

Growing food in a City allotment matches farming productivity per square metre

A citizen science project by the University of Sussex has found that urban growers in Brighton and Hove were able to harvest 1kg of...

38℃ record Arctic temperature confirmed, others likely to follow

A new and disturbing high temperature record for the Arctic of 38 degrees Celsius, or just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, was confirmed by the...

Next phase of Manchester’s transformative tree planting drive gets underway with avenue of oaks...

The second year of a two-year project to plant at least 2,000 trees across Manchester will get underway with its first plantings on Monday...

New research network seeks to link the health of nature in towns and cities...

A new research network aims to discover more about how the quality of our urban parks, gardens, rivers and canals can affect the health...

Solar parks could boost bumble bee numbers in a win-win for nature

New research shows that simple changes to how UK solar parks are managed could boost ground nesting bumble bee populations in the parks and...

Tameside award for successful recycling campaign

A TAMESIDE campaign that reduced blue bin contamination by 92% has won a national recycling award. The Sort it Out campaign, jointly launched by Tameside...