£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...
Salford is the second most polluted City in the UK says the WHO
The City of Salford has been named as one of the most polluted places in the UK according to figures released today by the World...
Manchester Greenpeace volunteers in action on Air Pollution urge Volkswagen to ditch diesel
Greenpeace volunteers in Manchester were in action in Stretford yesterday to raise public awareness around air pollution, targeting Volkswagen diesel as the prime suspect.
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First tree of the Great Northern Forest is planted in Radcliffe
Forestry Minister David Rutley have planted the first government-funded tree of the Northern Forest.
He and tree champion Sir William Worsley joined the Woodland Trust...
Widespread losses among pollinating insects in Britain study finds
Many insect pollinator species are disappearing from areas of Great Britain, a new study has found.
The research, led by the Centre for Ecology &...