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Environmental campaigners have staged a naked protest in the House of Commons.
Government plans to press ahead with fracking could see Britain miss its international climate commitments twenty times over, Jeremy Corbyn will warn today.
The Woodland Trust – the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity - has plucked out a top ten of the weird and wacky wildlife that many people will never have heard of that live in our UK woodland.
The Labour MP for Bristol West, Thangam Debbonaire, writes following her parliamentary debate this week on 'the effect of transition towns on use of fossil fuels'.
Insects provide an inordinate number of services to humans, and if we’re to be responsible custodians of our earth for future generations we can’t afford to be slow to protect them, writes Alex Sobel MP.
Food and clothing imported by wealthy Western countries are making it harder for many poor and marginalised communities to get a daily clean water supply, a new report from WaterAid warns.
To mark Keep Britain Tidy’s annual ‘Great British Spring Clean’, employees at Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) will offer their support in a series of clean-up events happening across the UK.
King’s College London and British Safety Council launch Canairy, the world’s first mobile app for outdoor workers to measure their exposure to air pollution in London.
Calor Gas writes ahead of a one day conference to discuss rural strategy and policy. Speakers include Rebecca Pow MP, David Drew MP and Baroness Bakewell.
Dods Monitoring consultant Alex Tiley explores what the introduction of PRT poultry could mean for the UK.
Britain should drop the EU's outdated, "traditionalist approach" to farming if it wants to strike a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States, Donald Trump's UK ambassador has declared.
Farming and fisheries minister George Eustice has resigned from the frontbench in protest at a potential delay to Brexit day. Read his full letter to Theresa May.
As the national media in Scotland start to raise real concerns, the Scottish Environmental Services Association (SESA), the voice of Scotland’s resources and waste management industry, today expressed deep concern on Scotland’s lack of preparedness for the 2021 landfill ban.
As a nation of pet lovers, outlawing the consumption of dog and cat meat is the right thing for us to do – these are our companions, not food, says Giles Watling MP.
The British Safety Council calls on parliamentarians to join their new campaign to protect outdoor workers from ambient air pollution.
The Environmental Services Association (ESA), the voice for the UK’s resource and waste management industry, today welcomes the Government's ambition to recast the way waste and resources are managed to cut plastic pollution, move towards a more circular economy and get packaging producers to pay the full cost of dealing with their waste.
Councils could be forced to collect food waste bins every week under fresh plans to overhaul Britain's record on rubbish outlined by the Environment Secretary.
Theresa May has taken a swipe at young people who have gone on strike from school to protest about a lack of action on tackling climate change.
The RSPCA and the British Veterinary Association (BVA) have joined forces to call on the UK Government to repeal a legal exemption that permits animals to be slaughtered without pre-stunning, causing unnecessary pain and suffering.
Whilst Blue Cross welcomes some of the proposals and initiatives outlined in the Government response to the EFRA committee report on ‘Controlling Dangerous Dogs’ we are disappointed to see that the government have failed to address some of the key welfare issues surrounding dangerous dogs and responsible dog ownership.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Teverson writes ahead of a debate in the House of Lords on ‘Threats presented by climate change’.
Conservative MP Michael Fabricant writes ahead of his Ten Minute Rule Motion today calling for an Ancient Woodland Inventory for England.
Appointed environment minister just after the EU referendum, Thérèse Coffey has had an unenviable workload over the last two-and-a-half years. Her department is one of the busiest in its Brexit preparations, much of which revolves around trying to fill the void left by EU environmental law. But that only seems to galvanize the Suffolk MP, who sits down with Geoffrey Lyons to talk about the government’s plans to reduce air pollution and devise a new framework for environmental governance after Brexit
Ministers have been urged to step up their war on plastic to stop the oceans being treated "like a sewer".