Environment
Plastic-eating robot shark deployed in Canary Wharf
The WasteShark can collect up to 500kg of plastic waste – the equivalent of 22,700 plastic bottles – a day.
Windy weather puts British grid close to 100% zero carbon operation
New records were set on December 30 for wind power generation and share of zero carbon electricity on the grid.
Greta Thunberg tells Andrew Tate he has ‘small d**k energy’ in savage tweet
Tate asked Thunberg to provide him with her email address so he could send a complete list of his car collection and "their respective enormous emissions."
Target date for cleaning up England’s waterways pushed back by 36 years
Until Brexit, the UK government was required to achieve "good" chemical and ecological status by 2027. That has now been pushed back to 2063.
Temperatures in Europe have risen by twice the global average over past 30 years
The World Meteorological Organisation says Europe presents a "live picture of a warming world".
Changes to water pollution alert tool dubbed ‘incredibly cynical’
It comes as Southern Water threatened to use debt collection agencies against customers involved in a payment boycott in protest against continuing raw sewage discharges.
Oil terminal protest ‘not disrespectful’ to Queen, say activists
"Once you understand the truth, then you understand, just like gravity, physics doesn’t stop for elections; a change of monarchy, anything."
Petition launched to ‘stop Truss paying over £100 Billion of our money to big oil’
It comes as the EU have announced they will impose a windfall tax electricity-producing companies that are making extraordinary profits thanks to the war in Ukraine and climate change.
10 key points from report that says climate impacts heading into ‘uncharted territories of destruction’
"The science is clear, yet the addiction to fossil fuels by greedy corporations and rich countries is resulting in losses and damages for communities who have done the least to cause the current climate crisis.”