Ministers have previously claimed oilfield development will improve domestic energy security and help consumers
The UK government has admitted that oil from the controversial Rosebank field will be…
Such a warm year would have occurred once in 500 years without global heating, Met Office scientists say
The UK had its second-hottest year on record in 2023, according to provisional data from the…
Annual energy bills for a typical household are expected to fall by £268 in April, a new forecast suggests.
Consultancy firm Cornwall Insight says bills could drop to £1,660 under the official price…
Jobs in Scotland's renewables sector grew by more than 50% in 2021, according to research.
A study by the Fraser of Allander Institute says the industry supported 42,000 jobs compared with 27,000…
A new recycling charge for large household appliances will be introduced from January.
The States Of Guernsey said it would apply to TVs, fridges and other such items to reflect the cost of…
Conservationists are using GPS collars in a bid to protect the world's most endangered zebra.
The experts from Marwell Wildlife, in Winchester, Hampshire, will use the technology to monitor 20 Grevy…
Major floods have inundated parts of northern Queensland - with the heavy rain thwarting attempts to evacuate a settlement hit by rising water.
Extreme weather driven by tropical cyclone Jasper has…
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There are two distinctive types of electric buses making their way along Nanjing Xi Lu, one of Shanghai's busiest roads.
The first is a fleet of blue trolleybuses that serve bus route number 20,…
In a lab in Manchester, volunteers are donning masks to breathe in lungfuls of polluted air.
They're being exposed to different kinds of fumes, from diesel to cleaning products, in a bid to…
t's a crisp winter morning in the Finnish coastal city of Oulu, the fourth most northerly city in the world, just 100km (60 miles) south of the Arctic Circle. Last night there was a snowstorm and…
The founder of an electric truck start-up that was popular in the US has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Trevor Milton, who led Nikola Corporation, was convicted of fraud last year after a…
Rainbow-coloured clouds have been spotted across the East of England for the first time in seven years, a meteorologist said.
BBC Look East weather presenter Dan Holley said the nacreous clouds were…
A zoo's beloved koala that was imported from Japan has died.
Burke, a Southern koala, joined Longleat's safari in Wiltshire in 2019 from Osaka Tennoji Zoo as part of a breeding programme to protect…
A council has only reduced emissions by 3% since declaring a "climate emergency" over four years ago, a report has revealed.
Sheffield City Council agreed in 2019 to set a target of reducing…
In normal years, the Christmas lights around Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, would steal the show.
Huge effort is poured into the festive illuminations.
But this December, the violent light and sound…
If you want to sell a bicycle, light it up, says Eamon Barrett, owner of the Altitude bike shop in Waterford, Ireland. The glossy technicolour paints, the chrome, the shiny new spokes - they all…
The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon that scientists say will threaten the future of the…
Carbon credit certifiers from the much-criticized voluntary market could be the big winners of a failure to strike a deal on the exchange of offsets between countries at Cop28, experts told Climate…
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