Environment

Compassion in World Farming is concerned UK Government may be back tracking on live export commitment. The environmental organisation welcomed the publication of the Agricultural Bill but are concerned that Gove appears to be back tracking on his live export commitment. James West, Senior Policy Manager at Compassion in World Farming, said: “Compassion in World Farming welcome the publication of the Agriculture Bill, with its focus on using public money to support public goods, such as high environmental standards. “One of the main pillars of these payments must be support for high animal...

Today (Wednesday 12 September 2018) in Prime Minister’s Questions Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn mentioned mental health charity Mind while talking about Government plans to move more than 2 million people on existing benefits over to Universal Credit. Under these proposals disabled people currently getting ESA (Employment and Support Allowance) will receive a letter informing them that their benefits will be stopped and asking them to make a new claim to Universal Credit. The proposals suggest people will be given between one and...

The stunning flower is an especially rare discovery as it belongs to a group called mycoheterotrophs

Art satellite data suggests the popular ski destination, featuring the spectacular Swiss Alps, is melting - and has lost almost 20 per cent of its snow

The fashion for having a hive in the garden or on rooftops has done "more harm than good" because honeybees are less efficient pollinators than wild bees

Researchers found no significant overall increase in the number of employees working flexibly since the changes came into effect four years ago

Michael Gove this morning denied that fellow hard Brexit Tories are plotting to oust their party leader. Talking to the BBC’s Today programme Mr Gove insisted that "loose talk" of a leadership challenge could "undermine" Brexit negotiations, despite reports that 50 of his colleagues met last night to discuss ditching Theresa May. A Tory leadership coup could be just days away with members of the Hard Brexit shadowy Tory ‘government within a government’ the ERG meeting to plot ditching the...

Researchers say better guidance for doctors on how to manage chronic pain is essential, if an ‘opioid epidemic’ - similar to the one in the United States- is to be avoided

In Scotland alone, a total of 37 carcasses of a species, Cuvier’s beaked whales, have been discovered - all in an advanced stage of autolysis, or self-digestion, since the start of August