Kuenssberg: Why ‘boomer’ Schwarzenegger won’t wait to tackle climate change
BBC/Reuters By Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg “I myself am a boomer! I’m, like, horrible!” There’s something a bit unexpected about one of the most famous people on the planet using what’s become a term of abuse about…
Bannau Brycheiniog: new name for the park but poor state of nature harder to fix
“We are all longing for a taste of the wild, of true wilderness. But it’s like Joni Mitchell says: ‘They’ve paved paradise and put up a parking lot’,” says Cathy, who is enjoying a day out hiking in the Brecon…
Lake or mistake? The row over water firms, drought and Abingdon’s new super-reservoir
It will be like a giant flan case full of water dumped on a marsh, says Julie Mabberley. She is discussing the plan to put a 150bn-litre reservoir, spanning almost two miles across, to the south-west of Abingdon in Oxfordshire….
Seemingly ambitious Defra hedgerow targets actually due to typo
The UK environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has disappointed campaigners after revealing that an ambitious hedgerow plan for England was in fact a typographical error. At the end of January, environment groups were delighted when Coffey revealed the government’s Environmental Improvement…
The UK’s battle cries on net zero have led to nothing – and now time is running out | Robin McKie
In 2019, the government passed legislation that committed the nation to achieving a goal of net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by the middle of the century. It was one of the most ambitious targets set by any country in…
Revealed: cabinet ministers warned of legal action over UK’s failure to tackle climate crisis
Cabinet ministers have been warned by senior civil servants that they face court action because of their catastrophic failure to develop policies for tackling climate change, according to secret documents obtained by the Observer. The leaked briefings from senior mandarins…
Vegetable shortages in UK could be ‘tip of iceberg’, says farming union
Shortages of some fresh fruit and vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers could be the “tip of the iceberg”, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has said. Certain products are hard to come by in UK supermarkets due to poor weather…
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