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Political parties are lining up to talk about where they stand on the 20mph urban speed limit in the Welsh election campaign.
London has lost the natural buffer that used to help water drain away. As the sea level rises and storm surges get more prevalent, chances of flooding are greater.
Heavy demands for energy and water risk locking ski resorts into a model that climate change will ultimately make unviable.
If the systems sending our food to market are just overseen by machines, then there’s going to be issues that could result in a food crisis.
Straw bales are a cheap building materials and they are great for insulation.
Art projects can help unlock more enthusiasm from citizens for deposit return schemes, reuse pilots or new recycling sorting rules.
Floating seaweed can travel long distances to new territories and accumulate in large mats or wash ashore in huge quantities.
The starry skies we can see from the UK are being limited all the time by the glare of light pollution.
Scientists can warn of a risk of floods days in advance. But forecasts often aren’t definitive enough to trigger action.
Young people are often overlooked in discussions about climate crisis. And yet they stand to be most profoundly affected by it.
Expertise can come from generations of farmers building up understanding of local weather patterns or Indigenous knowledge about forests and rivers.
Until now, UK regulation has focused on just a few well-studied Pfas, mainly through drinking water standards.
As sea levels rise and storms intensify, coastal defences simply cannot keep up.
Climate change isn’t rewriting the laws of structural engineering, but it is rapidly eating away at our margins of safety.
Concentrations of a forever chemical known as TFA is increasing in rainwater, drinking water, soil and plants.
The ocean is warming as the upper atmosphere is cooling – both as a result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions.
Places like schools, hospitals and universities can help address the climate crisis by promoting a shift to more sustainable diets.
Governments have been warned about climate change for 70 years. They’re still suppressing the worst news.
Green finance hinges on causing a minimal environmental disruption but tension in Greenland is building.
Deep beneath the Rockies, a huge slab of crust ‘dripped’ into the mantle. It changed America forever.
Iran is struggling with a massive water crisis, this is a global phenomenom.
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
Our perception of animal welfare as a nation of animal lovers is out of step with policy and law that still allows differential animal treatment.
Trade bans on sharks won’t reduce the threat of overfishing.