A crop which was once a staple of Scottish farming is being revived as the fashion industry looks for ways to cut its carbon footprint. Flax was widely grown...
Tag - Environment
A legal challenge to a plan for gas caverns under Larne Lough has failed at the High Court in Belfast. Campaigners had applied for a judicial review of...
An industrial battery site to store energy from wind and solar farms has been granted planning permission. The facility covering 8.6 acres of land –...
Sky gazers in the south east of England were captivated by a rare blue supermoon, which made a spectacular appearance for the first time since 2009. The blue...
A major wind farm development straddling two council boundaries has been given approval despite one local authority opposing the plan. The Sanquhar II project...
A housing construction company has agreed to pay £100,000 after polluting a waterway on a site it was developing near Bradford. Keepmoat Homes Ltd offered to...
A dog which was found by a kayaker after falling from a 60ft (18m) cliff in west Wales has been reunited with its owner. Floyd the Cavapoo went over the cliff...
Scotland’s summer of 2023 was a tale of two extremes. It started on an uncomfortably familiar path – with climate records being smashed. But July...
A natural weather event known as El Niño has begun in the Pacific Ocean, likely adding heat to a planet already warming under climate change. US scientists...
The UK risks falling behind in its efforts to reach “net zero” by 2050 without much faster action, according to the government’s independent...