Road verges could be havens for pollinators

Better-managed road verges can help boost pollinating insects, new research shows. Pollinators such as bees, butterflies and hoverflies benefit from the plants and flowers in...

£5000 grants to support replacing gas boilers with heat pumps announced

All new heating systems installed in UK homes from 2035 are to be low carbon, the Government has announced with Homeowners in England and...

Year of the Tiger: A roaring opportunity to secure a future for wild tigers

As we enter the 2022 Year of the Tiger, WWF's latest report looks at some of the ways the decline in wild tiger numbers...

UK air pollution regulations will reduce deaths, but do little to protect ecosystems

Existing air pollution regulations will reduce thousands of premature adult deaths in the UK, but even the most effective technically feasible actions, which will...

Ecological ‘doom loops’ edging closer

Extreme weather events such as wildfires and droughts will accelerate change in stressed systems leading to quicker tipping points of ecological decline, according to...

Living walls can reduce heat lost from buildings by over 30%, study shows

Retrofitting an existing masonry cavity walled building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure by...

Best before dates? You’ll be surprised what you can eat

If stored correctly, food can be eaten days , weeks , months  or even years after the Best Before date. The Charity WRAP has published...

National Trust to plant 20 million trees in ten years

The National Trust has unveiled one of the UK's biggest woodland expansion and tree planting projects in an ambitious plan to become carbon net...

Cuadrilla apologises over fracking quakes

Energy company Cuadrilla has apologised to residents in Lancashire over a series of earthquakes that has seen fracking suspended at its Lancashire site. Seismic activity...

Mixed fortunes for populations of seabirds around our coast

The most comprehensive census to date of breeding seabirds shows mixed fortunes for seabirds around the coast of Britain Seabirds Count provides population estimates for...