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Gatwick Airport, Starbucks and plastic waste charity Hubbub have launched a cup reuse trial across the international airport’s South Terminal.The organisations hope to tackle single-use plastic pollution with the one-month testing period,...

Scotland’s national tree planting targets have been “smashed”. The nation’s Rural Economy Secretary, Fergus Ewing, said new planting was undertaken across 11,200 hectares in 2018, significantly surpassing the 10,000 hectare annual target. The previous...

By 2040, most of the meat on our tables won’t come from animals.That’s the prediction from researchers at global consultancy AT Kearney, who predict by this time, 60% of ‘meat products’ will...

Greenpeace climate activists have boarded an oil rig being towed out to the North Sea to protest against continued fossil fuel exploration.Two campaigners climbed onto the 27,000-tonne platform from a boat as...

Canada plans to ban a wide range of single-use plastics by 2021.The government has not yet ruled on which exact products will disappear from shelves but notes it will work to identify...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is investing £6 million in 15 projects aimed at improving the capital’s air quality and climate emergency.The grant from the Air Quality Fund will support four new Low...

Methane emissions from US industry are up to 100 times higher than commonly reported. That’s the conclusion reached by researchers from Cornell University and the Environmental Defense Fund, who used a Google Street...

Cobalt production needs to nearly double to make and charge enough electric vehicles (EVs) for the UK to meet its 2050 climate targets.That’s according to a letter co-authored by the Natural History...

Geminor has signed a deal to handle what it claims is the first ever export of treated waste from Iceland.The Norwegian resource management firm penned a five-year contract to ship refuse-derived fuel...

The climate crisis, drug use and feeding farmed fish with wild stocks risks “sinking” the $230bn (£180bn) aquaculture industry, according to an ethical investment network.Fish farms now surpass wild fisheries as the...

What’s the cheapest country to run an electric vehicle (EV)?A new set of statistics calculated by Compare the Market suggests it might be the South American nation of Chile, where it costs...

Donald Trump’s state visit will produce as much carbon dioxide as an average British home does in 970 years.That’s the verdict from renewable energy supplier Pure Planet, which has calculated the US...

Renewable power is already the cheapest source of electricity in many parts of the world.That’s the verdict from a new report published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), which suggests the...

Rarely does mention of the pharmaceutical industry conjure up images of smoke stacks, pollution and environmental damage.Yet our recent study found the global pharmaceutical industry is not only a significant contributor to...

A new £65 million plastic recycling plant will be powered by electricity made from non-recyclable rubbish. Pennon Group, the parent company of waste giant Viridor, will use power generated from its £252 million...

A new €100 million (£88m) clean energy investment fund has been launched by a fund led by Bill Gates, the European Commission and European Investment Bank (EIB).Initially announced in October last year,...