Developers could be obliged to enhance wildlife habitats when building houses or commercial property, under new government proposals. A mandatory "biodiversity net gain" requirement could be put in place, meaning developers would have to leave habitats better off for wildlife than before any construction work.more
Climate change has significantly boosted the chances of having summer heatwaves in the UK. A Met Office study says that the record-breaking heat seen in 2018 was made about 30 times more likely because of emissions from human activity.more
Branson and Fabien Cousteau will join Aquatica Submarines' chief pilot Erika Bergman and make several expeditions into the sinkhole this weekend in a remote-piloted Stingray 500 submarine, to collect data and map out the submerged cave.more
Record 80,000 new trees will be planted across the capital by 15,000 Londoners in the city's biggest ever mass tree-planting weekend. The plant-a-thon will mark National Tree Week and help London become the world's first National Park City.more
Wrightbus will send the first ever public transportation bus of this nature onto UK streets. Wrightbus, a company based in Northern Ireland, used the 2018 Euro Bus Expo in Birmingham, U.K. at the N.E.C. to launch its new fuel cell double decker. This bus is the first of its kind in the world.more
Discount British airline company Easyjet appears to be one step closer to launching electric aircraft routes to Europe, having submitted a new patent for a groundbreaking electric motor last week.more
Police have warned London's motorists to avoid the capital's roads for days because of protests by environmental activists and urged drivers not to attempt to drive through them.more
Healthier buildings are a top priority according to a new study which finds the construction industry is predicting a 60 per cent leap in the number of "green" schemes in the next three years.more
Sipping from takeaway coffee cups and water bottles could become slightly uncomfortable with many supporting cigarette-style warning labels on single-use plastic products, according to research.more
The genetic codes of every animal, plant and fungus in the UK will be sequenced in a massive new project scientists say will benefit everything from conservation to medicine. Dubbed the Darwin Tree of Life Project, the initiative is part of a massive global effort to unravel the DNA of all life on Earth.more
People in the UK throw away around 295 billion pieces of plastic every year, much of which is single-use and cannot be recycled, a report suggests.
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As many as 1.5 million properties in England will be in areas at significant risk of coastal flooding by the 2080s as sea levels rise, the Government's climate advisers have warned.more
H&M has announced it will move from plastic to paper bags in the UK in time for Christmas shopping. The process will begin on 29 October and all UK stores will use only paper bags by the beginning of December.more
MEPs backed plans on Tuesday to improve consumers' trust in drinking water from the tap, which is much cheaper and cleaner for the environment compared to bottled water.more
Taxi firm Addison Lee is betting its customers will be ready to, in London at least, in just three years' time. It has joined forces with self-driving software specialist Oxbotica, and says the tie-up means it will offer self-driving taxis in the capital by 2021.more