Three million properties in England are at risk of flash flooding, according to flood maps published by the Environment Agency on Thursday. An extra 2.4m are...
The UK must set up a specialist crime unit to investigate organised crime in food supply chains in the aftermath of the horsemeat scandal, an official...
New roads and housing developments require “trade-offs” between economic and environmental benefits, the environment secretary Owen Paterson has said. Biodiversity offsetting – where infrastructure developers commit...
Just four of the 25 environment-related areas that the coalition government promised to address have made ‘good progress’ since 2010, according to a group of 41...
The political, economic and cultural climate in Britain makes it an appealing place to make investments in the waste and recycling industry. These reasons help explain...
The secretary of state tasked with leading the government’s climate adaptation strategy has only been briefed on climate change twice in the last 14 months, a...
The environment, food and rural affairs committee is seeking submissions for an inquiry assessing food security in the UK. The last time the committee looked into...
A licence has been granted to enable badger culling to be continued in the west Gloucestershire pilot area for eight weeks, Natural England has confirmed. The...
The Badger Trust has said plans to extend the badger culling period are illegal, in a letter sent to Natural England. The pilot badger cull in...
Conservative MP Richard Benyon has left his role at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) amid the cabinet reshuffle, with George Eustice in...
An international initiative aiming to stop ‘ghost fishing’ has celebrated its first success after retrieving 20 tonnes of discarded fishing nets from the bottom of the...
Peter Ainsworth looks back on his time working in the investment world with fond nostalgia. But even in 1992 – when he left the industry to...
An environmental campaign group has called proposals to offset the destruction of wildlife “a license to trash nature”. The UK government has announced plans to compensate...
Chancellor George Osborne’s weekend Observer article calling for Britain to be the best at ‘technology’ rings slightly hollow, when you realise he’s talking about digital technology. Digital...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has commissioned a study to find out the effect of energy projects – including shale gas and...