Virginia-based ICF has been awarded more than 80 government contracts in the last five years.
The American corporation running the UK green homes grant has been awarded multiple government contracts…
Existing efforts to fight enormous wave of waste are ‘drop in the ocean’, campaigners say.
The UK’s 10 leading supermarket chains collectively sold 900,000 tonnes of plastic packaging in 2019, a…
Drax is the UK’s first energy company to make a pledge to boost social mobility for one million people by 2025.
Drax has announced the target as part of its Opportunity Action Plan developed in…
After studying how microplastics damage the oceans, schoolgirl Lizzie wants the government to stop sending waste to developing countries.
A petition by a nine-year-old schoolgirl calling on Boris…
Restoring the UK’s seas could put billions of pounds into the economy by 2050 and bring thousands of new jobs, according to a new report by Sky Ocean Rescue and WWF.
The Value of Restored UK Seas’…
Electricity cable stretches 149 miles on seafloor between UK and France.
A new high-voltage subsea cable linking the UK to France has begun importing enough electricity to power 1m British homes.
At the end of December, activists and celebrity supporters relaunched their #RethinkHS2 campaign opposing the UK’s new high-speed line with a rather glossy video voiced by Emma Thompson, featuring…
Post-Brexit regulation doesn’t match new EU rules to tackle ocean pollution, despite UK being Europe’s largest plastic waste producer
The UK has been accused of failing to honour its promise to curb…
Call for world leaders to act in wake of French extradition case that turned on environmental concerns.
Air pollution does not respect national boundaries and environmental degradation will lead to…
Six projects across the UK will today receive a share of £8 million in government funding as part of a drive to create the world’s first net zero emissions industrial zone by 2040.
Projects across…
Accenture investment to expand the U.K. company’s active grid measurement tech for grid operators including National Grid and AEMO.
Getting to 100 percent clean energy presents power grid operators…
Storm Bella heralds first 24-hour period where turbines supply more than half of country’s electricity.
Boxing Day saw yet another record broken for wind power generation in Britain.
It was the…
I needed something to fight for after the People’s Vote campaign collapsed. So I unleashed my inner ecowarrior.
Anyone who objects to my incessant posting of tree photos on social media can blame…
The Oil & Gas Authority has submitted a revised strategy to the UK Parliament, featuring a range of new net zero obligations for the UK.
The revised Strategy reflects the ongoing global energy…
This week, the UK government began talks with EDF on the construction of a new nuclear power station in Suffolk. The proposed power station is likely to feature in the government’s “10-point plan” to…
Forty per cent of Friday’s electricity was generated in windfarms thanks to blustery winter weather.
Blustery winter weather helped Great Britain’s windfarms set a record for clean power generation…
In early January of this year, fresh off the experience of writing a year-end blog post for 2019, I started a project that I thought would make writing this year's year-end post easier. I created a…
The Guardian’s biodiversity editor looks back on a year that put the state of the planet on the agenda in ways no one could have foreseen.
The year 2020 was always destined to be a crucial one for…