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Drax abandons plans to build Europe’s biggest gas power plant

Freedom of Information requests reveal local authority pensions invest £9.9 billion in fossil fuel companies.

Common Wealth think tank argues steel contributes 15 percent of the UK’s greenhouse gases from industry and must be decarbonised.

Public Accounts Committee slams Tory government for 'disappointing' progress on its own 2018 25-year environment plan.

Bottom trawling could be prohibited in four English offshore marine protected areas, including Dogger Bank.

Wildlife Trusts lawyers contact environment secretary demanding he demonstrate decision to allow pesticide use is lawful.

The UK Government delays passage of the The Environment Bill, not expected to become law until autumn.

Newcastle City Council has rejected Banks Mining’s application to extract 800,000 tonnes of coal from a site at Dewley Hill near Throckley.

The UK saw one of the biggest drops in greenhouse emissions as a result of measures to slow the coronavirus pandemic at 13 percent, new analysis suggests.

Alok Sharma, Cop26 president, warns promises not enough to put the world on track to limit global warming to 1.5C.

UK government 68 percent carbon target 'important but not sufficient. A more ambitious cut is both feasible and necessary.'

The multi-billion European Common Agricultural Policy will be replaced post-Brexit with some payments linked to environmental stewardship.

The young adult climate event involving more than 350 delegates from 150 countries is taking place over the next two weeks.

What areas does Boris Johnson's plan focus on and why are they important?

Retrofitting northern homes with energy-efficiency measures would create jobs needed for recovery from the pandemic.

Climate breakdown and agriculture driving habitat loss, leading to extinctions.

The US president elect has promised $2 Trillion for renewable energy and other climate measures over four years.

Actress Joanna Lumley, charities concerned about unexploded war munitions being detonated at sea.

Race against time to get paths - which the public has used for centuries - onto official maps so they are not lost forever.

Scientists found people residing in leafy neighbourhoods are less likely to smoke.

Letters sent to government urging action ahead of a UK-UN climate summit on December 12 marking fifth anniversary of Paris Agreement.

When peatland is degraded, drained and burned it releases carbon, worsening climate change.

Natural Capital Committee finds five of seven areas examined - freshwater, marine, soils, plants and wildlife and land - are deteriorating.

A council tax increase of £1 a week would have funded an annual £3 million Climate Action Now (CAN) project.