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Transport Secutary Grant Shapps has told the ambitious HS2 project that they must stop cutting into ancient woodland ‘unless absolutely necessary’ whilst a review of the project is undertaken. With concerns that the...
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‘It’s finally happened, you’ve both lost your minds!’ There I was, staring at my boyfriends phone, gazing intently at a message from his mother, with a rather unpleasant photo attached to it. A...
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Today is the World Rivers Day (usually falling on the fourth Friday of each September). The longest river in the UK is the River Severn at 220 miles long; the river Thames is...
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Non-Native and Invasive Non-Native Species (also known as NNS and INNS respectively) are very rarely talked about, but the damage that they are doing locally and globally is pretty incredible. The main difference...
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Last month the Environment Agency’s Corporate Scorecard for Quarter Four 2018 to 2019 was published on the gov.uk website. In it they outline their twelve key measures and how they are performing against...
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The Amazon Rainforest is still burning weeks after it the full extent of the situation was realised. Astronauts on the International Space Station and NASA satellites which have been tracking the inferno have...
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In what is an undoubtedly ambitious undertaking, The Darwin Tree of Life project is currently in the process of attempting to sequence the genomes of all UK species. This monumental piece of work is…
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A new deal between the RSPB and ethical banking group, Triodos Bank, has helped install solar panels in seven nature reserves. The new panels aim to provide 10% of the RSPB’s total annual...
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I pull off the highest road in Yorkshire at the somewhat optimistically named Viewpoint. I’m almost 2,000 feet above sea level – high above Wharfedale on one side and Wensleydale on the other,...
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The Isle of Wight has become a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve UNESCO Biosphere Reserves are unique areas of environmental significance in which communities strive to work hand in hand, innovatively and responsibly to protect...
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