European Commissioners have today agreed to save the EU’s flagship environment legislation, The Birds and Habitats Directives, after an 18 month ‘Defend Nature’ environmental NGOs campaign...
Honeybees’ foraging preferences can provide valuable information for governments about how to manage rural landscapes, according to researchers from the University of Sussex. The research, published...
Lightsource Renewable Energy has asked people living near a new solar site in Devon to help shape the solar farm through landscape management and wildlife conservation...
Britain’s countryside may be the “unacknowledged backbone” of its national identity, but Prince Charles has said he fears for its future. The landscape is “as precious...
Broadcast from the beautiful Cornish town of St Austell, two leading renewable energy suppliers got a mention on Question Time, the BBC’s flagship political debate programme, on...
The National Trust has reaffirmed its current stance against fracking, after its director-general told the Times that the charity had an “open mind” about the technology....
About 80,000 gold miners have gone on strike, demanding an increase of the salary and accusing top bosses of the industry of ‘arrogance’. Members of the...
Environment secretary Owen Paterson is said to have commissioned a report into the negative effects of wind farms on the rural economy, which has been met with opposition from the...
Renewable energy developers need to take local communities’ concerns and environmental protection into account when planning projects, says new guide by the Department for Communities and...
A coalition of wildlife organisations has undertaken a ‘health check’ of a selection of wildlife from the UK and elsewhere. The study, the first of its...
Global packaging and paper firm International Paper has signed up to the WWF’s Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN), which looks to eliminate illegal logging and...
After global climate negotiations in Doha wrapped up at the weekend, Steve Trent, executive director of the Environmental Justice Foundation (EFJ), writes about how climate change...