An eminent American professor of large animal medicine has warned the UK not to dilute its high animal welfare standards for future trade deals...
Farmers and landowners are being offered the chance to be part of the vast new Northern Forest with heavily subsidized tree-planting incentives....
A Labour government would reform school curriculums in England to introduce mandatory lessons on climate change, the party has announced.
Michael Gove has announced that plastic straws, drinks stirrers, and cotton buds will be banned in England from next year.
Earlier this month the UK Parliament became the first in the world to declare an ‘environment and climate emergency’. Shadow Defra Secretary Sue...
The Environmental Services Association (ESA), the voice for the UK’s resource and waste management industry, has today responded to the Mayor of...
Farming should be about producing the means for healthy diets from sustainable food systems. That’s not what we have at present, but the UK could...
British Safety Council’s report makes the case for urgent action on the impact of air pollution on outdoor workers
It’s time to seize the initiative and put an end to plastic pollution both at home and abroad, says Anne Main
Clearly we cannot ban trophy hunting overseas, and it is not our place to do so. But we could reduce demand for it, writes Zac Goldsmith
This country is rightly proud of its commitment to the protection and care of animals. It’s time we banned the use of wild animals in circuses,...
Where there are opportunities to be more energy efficient, like the restoration of the Palace of Westminster, parliament should get its own House...
Hundreds of young people gathered on a former coal mine site as they planted the first trees of Britain’s first Young People’s Forest.
Ministers must use UK aid spending to tackle the "existential threat" of climate change, a group of influential MPs has said.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), reports that more than 1 million species are at risk...
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, Fera Science, Sylva Foundation and the Woodland Trust has calculated the true economic cost...
Michael Gove has called on top players from the food industry to "step up to the plate" and reduce the amount of food wasted in the UK.
There is a manageable cost to tackling climate change, and the lesson of the last decade is that costs fall when there is a concerted effort to...
The Woodland Trust has welcomed calls by more than 40 local councils to stop advance site clearance for HS2.
The Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) report published today outlines the stark increase in woodland expansion needed to achieve net zero carbon...
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