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...