Great Britain’s maximum wind generation record was broken on Friday, 5 December, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) has confirmed.

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals. In the most wide-ranging analysis of the global plastic system, the Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with academics including at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, said plastic, a material once called revolutionary and modern, was now putting public health, world economies and the future of the planet at risk. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Swedish carmakers push to retain target as Germany lobbies to help its own industry by softening cutoff date

Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dorothy for alerting me to this. In the Guardian today, the above and: UK energy bill payers will hand over £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, the French compan…

Environmental Standards Scotland chair Dr Richard Dixon said the current government had 'gone a little backwards from the rather strong position'.

Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain

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Shetland's methane emissions reached their highest level in a decade last year, driven by broken kit at EnQuest’s Sullom Voe terminal.

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

Controversial approaches to cooling the planet are unlikely to work, according to dozens of polar scientists.

Most of 16 stadiums hosting 2026’s FIFA World Cup will likely breach temperature safe-play limits as climate change progresses, sustainable sport researchers have warned. They believe the forthcoming ...

At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...