From Shakespeare to Radiohead, ancient woodlands have shaped the UK’s creative landscape. They deserve to be celebrated If the mindless felling of the Sycamore Gap tree has taught us anything, it is that there is no such thing as “just a tree” , as one of the perpetrators, Adam
With tax reform back on the agenda thanks to the productivity roundtable, Henry’s 2010 review has a lot of answers to the biggest challenges facing the Albanese government Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Ken Henry, the former Treasury boss, slipped
Watchdog has faced intense criticism over sewage spills, shareholder payouts and ballooning debts Serious pollution incidents by English water firms rose 60% last year England and Wales’ embattled water regulator will be abolished under recommendations from a
Use of wastewater treatment plant effluent containing Pfas threatens wildlife, food and drinking water, advocates say Many of the nation’s wetlands are being filled with toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” as wastewater treatment plant effluent tainted with the compounds is
Exclusive: Letter signed by 59 MPs criticises party’s deputy leader after his warning to energy firms over new contracts UK politics live – latest updates A group of nearly 60 Labour MPs has written to Richard Tice challenging the Reform UK deputy leader’s pledge to rip up
Current list of 24 invitees to next month’s economic reform summit includes only one environmental representative Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Environmentalists fear they are being shut out of the economic debate after peak nature groups were
Environment Agency records 75 serious incidents among total of 2,800, with Thames Water being worst offender Serious pollution incidents by water companies were up 60% last year compared with the year before, data has revealed. These incidents are the most environmentally
Rules to prevent ‘enormous waste’ of fuel are seen as weak and poorly enforced and firms have little incentive to stop The fossil fuel industry pumped an extra 389m tonnes of carbon pollution into the atmosphere last year by needlessly flaring gas, a World Bank report has
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The bulk of global greenhouse gas emissions come from countries that are not democratic, and many big oil and gas exporters are also authoritarian The big emitters: which countries are holding back climate action and why? When it comes to the climate crisis, how do you
The Kangaroo Island assassin spider’s only known home is in the north-west of the island off the coast of South Australia, where it hides out in moist clumps of leaf litter. As parts of Kangaroo Island – still recovering from the black summer bushfires – suffer through
