The first ever offshore wind farm built in the UK is to be decommissioned starting next month.
Developer E.ON says the Blyth Offshore Wind Farm, which has two 2MW turbines, has generated enough...
India's external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, was among the first to confirm that a United Nations consultant working with her government’s Ministry of Environment and Forests died aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302...
The US will start exporting more oil than Russia and could potentially overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s top exporter in the next five years.
The forecast from the International Energy Agency (IEA)...
A pair of council officers in hi-vis jackets scrutinise a clipboard before approaching a bungalow on a windswept estate on the western outskirts of Swansea. They are looking for residents who have...
Japan is struggling to find a resting place for soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown.
In the years after the disaster, thousands of workers starting removing soil, debris and other...
Lidl is trialling the removal of 9p plastic bags from 54 of its shops in Wales.
The brand says it discovered the cheap reusable bags were frequently being used just once before being...
More frequent rainfall in Greenland is accelerating the melting of ice formations.
That’s according to a new study published in scientific journal The Cryosphere, which suggests warmer temperatures mean precipitation is increasingly falling...
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called on the government to set up a body to help energy workers in the north of England make the most of the renewable...
Finland has brought forward its coal phase-out date by one year, according to reports, with the new deadline set for May 1, 2029, after which coal will be banned from use as...
Thailand has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest floating solar farm.
Bloomberg reports the state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) is looking to build floating solar farms with a combined capacity...
Oslo, Norway is the capital environmental city for Europe in 2019 and is dedicated to becoming a zero emissions city by 2030. So it is fitting that it is adding 70 electric...
Computers and other digital technologies around the world are pumping large amounts of emissions into the atmosphere.
That’s the suggestion made in a new report from French thinktank The Shift Project, which shows...
Flying is bad for the environment but some airlines are better than others at limiting the damage.
No airline is yet doing enough to reduce carbon emissions in the long term, but Delta...
People love meat. The trouble is that meat production, especially red meat production, is a major driver of climate change and environmental destruction. Red meat requires 28 times more land to produce...
Through burning vast amounts of fossil fuels over the decades, we’ve pumped so much CO2 into the atmosphere that even if we had stopped burning any more at all, the planet’s climate...
The recycling rate of plastic packaging in the EU stood at more than 42% in 2016, almost double the figure seen in 2005.
That’s according to latest figures from Eurostat, which also reveal...
