Street lights glow red to help bats cross the road
Worcestershire County Council has installed special LEDs on a 60 metre-wide crossing area of the A4440 to help the creatures, ...
Tag: Environment
When the Economist tried to sell poor people living longer as a bad thing, the internet responded
Now and again, the British mainstream media will come out with an exceedingly bad take - one that's either shockingly ...
Parts of the UK could be hit by almost a month’s rain
Forecasters have issued a weather warning for much of the day.
How the UK’s most extraordinary festival is fighting climate catastrophe
The UK's most extraordinary festival, Boomtown, has stepped up its sustainability plans for 2019. The initiatives behind its latest 'chapter', ...
The new environment secretary wants to help animals but at the expense of the planet
Boris Johnson has appointed former Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers to his cabinet. Johnson handed Villiers the environment secretary post, ...
Police accused of ‘disproportionate and aggressive response’ to protest at Turkish embassy in London
This article was updated at 09:35 on 8 June to include a statement from the Metropolitan Police. Police reportedly threatened protesters ...
Turkey is about to wipe hundreds of historic Kurdish villages off the map
The Turkish state has long been unrelenting in its plans to wipe out Kurdish culture. And in its latest move, ...
CO2 in the atmosphere has hit a level not seen in all of human history
The level of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere has hit levels never seen before in human history. According to the ...
The UK just became the first country in the world to declare a ‘climate emergency’
On 1 May 2019, parliament voted to declare an “environment and climate emergency”. This makes the UK the first country ...
Long-term fracking protesters force Tory fracking tsar to resign
Natascha Engel, the government's fracking tsar, has quit after just six months in the post. And her resignation letter suggested ...
From divestment to school strikes – climate activism in the UK is going mainstream
Time is running out for us to tackle climate change. In October 2018, the UN warned that we have just ...
Fracking firm Cuadrilla’s recent ‘PR stunt’ has gone horribly wrong
Fracking firm Cuadrilla is getting rather prone to bad headlines. But a recent stunt it pulled is quite something. Fracking: ...
The people saying ‘no one wants an election’ have overlooked a few million things
Some people have claimed that no one wants a general election. The problem is that many people do, as replies ...
The government has told a fracking firm where to go. Kind of.
A Freedom of Information request (FOI) has revealed a curious letter from a government minister to a fracking firm. On ...
A Tory council has declared a ‘climate emergency’. No, really.
A Conservative-led council has officially declared that there is a state of "climate emergency". Surprising? Kind of. But it was ...
A new year and another fracking site gets underway
A matter of days into 2019, and already another fracking site is underway. And already it's the subject of protests. Fracking ...
The fightback against fracking just kicked off in Greater Manchester
A bold new move by Greater Manchester councils could force the government to reconsider its fracking plans. On 7 January, ...
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