Environment
Ulez expansion leads to significant drop in air pollution in London
The expansion has cut 424 tonnes of NOx emissions in six months, figures have revealed.
Chris Martin among hundreds of celebrities condemning ‘injustice’ of Just Stop Oil sentences
Actor Toby Jones, artist Tracey Emin and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams also criticised the jail terms in an open letter.
Green/ Independent alliance to call for public ownership of water
Water companies in England have incurred debts of more than £64 billion and paid out £78 billion in dividends since they were privatised debt-free in 1989.
CO2 increasing 10 times faster than any point in last 50,000 years – study
Scientists in the US and at the University of St Andrews studied ancient Antarctic ice to make the discovery.
The world just passed a ‘major clean energy milestone’ – reports
“The renewables future has arrived"
Why underground heat networks are set to revolutionise how we heat our homes
Centralised networks take waste heat from data centres and disused mines to pump heat into homes, effectively removing the need for boilers.
Team GB windsurfer can’t train in Britain due to sewage in the seas
‘The sewage problem in the UK is pretty horrific'
Indian landfill that will soon be taller than the Taj Mahal is on fire
The fire has been cited as proof that “our cities are crumbling under the weight of their own waste”.
Dubai under water as a year’s worth of rain falls in a day
Torrential rainfall events like this will become more frequent due to human-driven climate change.