Government U turns on wind farms
Rishi Sunak has announced that the Government will ease restrictions on building onshore wind farms, heading off a revolt by his party's MP’s who...
Burnham launches new partnership between Greater Manchester and Daikin to retrofit homes and boost...
GREATER Manchester has signed a new landmark partnership with Japanese manufacturer Daikin that will see up to 1,000 homes benefit from low-carbon retrofitting trials.
The...
£175k funding boost to care for trees on Bury council-owned land
Bury Council is to invest an extra £125,000 in tree management to help reduce a backlog of lower priority pruning and felling work on...
Nature scheme to help young people support biodiversity and learn green skills
Young people will be inspired to support biodiversity across the UK while learning essential green and climate resilience skills as part of a new...
UK in top 10 ‘dangerously unprepared’ for heat, if global 1.5ºC target is missed
The UK, Switzerland and Norway top the list of countries heading for dramatic increases in uncomfortably hot days - if temperatures break the international...
Holcombe Moor named as one of 12 peatland sites set to benefit from climate...
Holcombe Moor has been named as one of twelve areas of peatland in the U.K. awarded funding today to help tackle climate change and...
Window to avoid 1.5°C of warming rapidly closing
Humanity is rapidly reaching the limit for how much additional carbon can be emitted into the atmosphere to keep global warming within 1.5 °C,...
The Arctic could become ‘ice-free’ within a decade
The Arctic could see summer days with practically no sea ice as early as the next couple of years, according to a new study...
Council’s can now double the fine for dropping litter
Councils will have the power to almost double on-the-spot fines for litter louts from today, Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey has announced.
The maximum on-the-spot fine...
Students’ clean air commercials aired with pedal-powered performance
Dozens of Greater Manchester schoolchildren have literally pedal-powered their way to success in a ‘Clean Air Day’ awards event by generating green electricity with...