The Spaniard Miquel Garau Ginard, who has been living in the capital of Wielkopolska for several months, is trying to clean up Poznań. A foreigner for several months every morning puts on a jacket and white gloves, takes a sack and goes to collect garbage on the streets of Poznan.more
The Swedish furniture giant has launched the 'Gunrid' curtain which is coated in a mineral-based surface treatment designed to break down common pollutants.more
The US ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson, has come under fire from a leading food critic, a farming union and trade justice campaigners over his push to open up the UK to American farmers post-Brexit.more
Until February 28, you can vote in the competition for the European Tree of the Year 2019!
Poland is represented by a magnificent maple from Krasnystaw, which competes with 14 other trees from various European countries!more
A chef is serving up lasagne made out of grey squirrel in London's Borough Market. Ivan Tisdall-Downes, who runs the restaurant Native in the capital's foodie hub, makes a squirrel ragu by slow cooking the meat from the squirrels' hind legs.more
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today launched the world's most advanced and comprehensive network of air quality monitors to help investigate and improve London's toxic air.more
Fresh concerns over air quality on the London Underground have been raised after researchers found that the concentration of particulate pollution in tube stations was up to 30 times higher than beside busy roads in the capital.more
The UK's first dog food made from insects goes on sale this week, which its manufacturers say could help reduce the environmental damage caused by the massive volumes of meat routinely fed to dogs and cats.more
It was supposed to be 103 billion for the fight against smog, but the European Commission has already announced: We will not finance coal furnaces, even modern ones. The "Clean Air" program will go down in smoke? - Gazeta Wyborcza writes on Monday.more
Expects drilling for oil off the Cork coast to begin in the third quarter of 2019, and said his company, Providence Resources, have a roadmap to take the Barryroe oil and gas field to the production stage.more
The 5p fee for plastic carrier bags in England will be doubled to 10p, and extended to all shops, under plans set out by the environment secretary.more
The European Commission has decided to temporarily suspend the UK from issuing carbon allowances under the EU Emissions Trading System from January 1, in a move designed to prevent invalid allowances entering the market.more
The Mayor of London and Transport for London (TfL) have unveiled an ambitious plan to create a unified, London-wide cycle network across London, with new quality standards for the building of new cycling infrastructure. more
Energy regulator Ofgem wants to produce a "smarter, fairer and cleaner" energy system that, added to reforms proposed last month, could cut consumers' bills by £45 a year from 2021.more
Today, shortly after midnight, the president of COP24, Michał Kurtyka, closed the UN climate summit in Katowice, during which the final conference document was adopted, the so-called The Katowice Package, or "road map" of the implementation of the Paris Agreement of 2015, aimed at limiting the global temperature rise.more
One million drivers are expected to be hit by a new polution charge in London. ULEZ vehicle tracker is set to be rolled on in Central London in 2019, mayor Sadiq Khan confirmed.more