The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation

Parcels from China that are exempt from UK import tax more than doubled in value to £3bn last year.

Dorset Council's Local Plan would wipe out Hardy's Wessex landscape, campaigners say.

Pesticide-free movement has grown, but many local authorities still spray weedkiller linked to wildlife declines and cancer More than half of councils in the United Kingdom continue to use pesticides in parks, playgrounds, pavements, playing fields and housing estates, research revealed on Wednesday. But increasingly, local authorities are taking action to end or reduce their use of pesticides, according to research by the Pesticide Action Network. Continue reading...

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole are collectively named the UK's first Nature Towns.

A company plans to use greenhouses above pits filled with waste to grow low-cost food for locals.

The energy secretary says the move will cut energy bills, but house builders caution against burdensome regulations.

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Wild Justice is a not-for-profit company which takes legal cases on behalf of wildlife. CEO: Bob Elliot. Co-Directors: Chris Packham CBE & Dr Ruth Tingay.

The state's ban on gender-affirming pediatric care "cannot be justified" by science, a two-year review concluded.

The goal of limiting warming to 1.5C is too high to avoid continued sea-level rise, scientists warn.

Campaigners say secretive ownership structures are becoming the ‘go-to vehicle for kleptocrats’ The owners of nearly a quarter of a million properties in England and Wales worth a combined £64bn are hidden behind opaque trusts, according to research that prompts concern that such structures are the “go-to vehicle for kleptocrats” stashing money in Britain. The government introduced a register of property held through offshore vehicles in August 2022, revealing a string of unknown owners, including high-profile figures such as Lewis Hamilton and James Dyson, as well as sanctioned Russians, Gulf royals and the Chinese state. Continue reading...

Torrential rains have triggered deadly flash floods in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing more than 100 people and leaving many others missing.

Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building There is very little evidence that protections for nature are a blocker to development, the government has admitted in its own impact assessment of the controversial new planning and infrastructure bill. The analysis by Whitehall officials provides no data or research to back up the government’s central argument that it is environmental legislation that holds up building. Continue reading...

Experts say previous economic models underestimated impact of global heating – as well as likely ‘cascading supply chain disruptions’

Campaigners warn against removing group as statutory consultee as part of plan to speed up building new homes Thousands of playing fields could be lost to housing if the government strips Sport England of its role in national planning policy, campaigners have warned. As part of the national planning and infrastructure bill the government has said it wants to “speed up the delivery of new homes and critical infrastructure” by removing the powers of some of the statutory consultees on planning decisions. Continue reading...