Thinktanks such as Policy Exchange are working to shift power away from state institutions – into the prime minister’s office.
To accumulate power, a government with authoritarian tendencies must…
XR plans protests next week as activists call on MPs to back a climate emergency bill.
Extinction Rebellion plan to block streets in London, Manchester and Cardiff next week as they call on MPs to…
Electricity demand fell by 13% in second quarter which helped renewables grow to 40% of energy mix.
Carbon emissions from Britain’s electricity system plunged by more than a third during the…
Cheshire-based facility will be world’s first to use bacteria-based recycling processes.
The UK is to get its first commercial refinery for extracting precious metals from electronic waste, which…
New Government figures indicate that large-scale solar will be lowest cost deploy and maintain over the next two decades.
New analysis on electricity generation costs published by the department…
Campaigner says decision at odds with Paris agreement to achieve net zero by 2050.
An environmental campaigner is mounting a legal challenge to the government’s decision to exclude waste…
Research also found lower levels of difficult behaviour in rich and poor neighbourhoods.
Growing up in a greener urban environment boosts children’s intelligence and lowers levels of difficult…
New policy will rule out future loans and guarantees made through UK Export Finance.
Boris Johnson is poised to sign off new rules barring the UK government’s chief foreign lender from offering…
Heatwave brings wind turbines to standstill and causes gas plants to struggle.
National Grid has fired up a coal-fired power station for the first time in 55 days after Britain’s record-breaking…
Expert warns of health implications of climate emergency as Britons flock to beaches.
As people flock to beaches and parks this weekend after the hottest August day in 17 years, a leading health…
As the black stuff burnt in the UK plummets to a level not seen since the early steam age, we trace its long, deep history and the problems left in its wake.
Britain achieved an unlikely status as a…
Heatwave continues to cause disruption as flooding and storm warnings issued.
The UK has had its longest stretch of temperatures exceeding 34C since the 1960s, as warnings of thunderstorms and heavy…
Research could pave way for cheap supercapacitor storage of renewable energy.
The humble house brick has been turned into a battery that can store electricity, raising the possibility that buildings…
BMW Group becomes first car manufacture to use GPS geo-fencing technology in areas of London and Birmingham.
As a response to the introduction of “low emission zones” in cities, BMW has designed…
The UK Government has selected Arup as their sustainability consultant to help deliver the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).
COP26 is set to be hosted by the UK Government and take place in…
Royal Borough of Greenwich unveil new generation of eco homes that will tackle both the housing crisis and the climate emergency.
Tenants have begun moving into the first of a new generation of…
BAE Systems, the defence company behind the British air force’s new fighter jet, has teased the prospect of electric-battery systems playing a substantial role in powering the RAF’s next-generation…
Across the UK, once thriving waterways are being wiped out by farming and water companies.
You can judge the state of a nation by the state of its rivers. Pollution is the physical expression of…
To meet its climate targets, the UK should ban advertisements for gas-guzzling SUVs, according to a report from a British think tank that wants to make SUVs the new smoking, as the BBC reported.
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