UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans | Drought
The UK government has been accused of a lack of transparency and of acting irresponsibly for refusing to…
Dorset hosepipe ban as drought and heatwave hit supplies
The Temporary Use Ban will come into force at 12.01am on Tuesday, August 18, and will prevent household…
New York’s largest landfill sent 65 million gallons of waste into drinking water sources, report says
A New York landfill produces more than 65 million gallons of leachate a year, and that waste travels…
Bicycle shelter duty at a Danish port fell to the 15 percent of a wind turbine that nobody can recycle, and the thing holding the rain off is a sawn section of blade
The thing parked over the bicycles is the wrong size for a building. It is too long, too…
A pop-up tag on a pregnant porbeagle shark kept reporting for four days after it stopped moving like a shark — rising and falling through the water at a constant 22°C, five degrees warmer than the sea, from inside whatever had swallowed it
For months, the data looked like an ordinary shark. A pop-up satellite archival tag attached to a pregnant…
Lagos Waste Pickers: Untold Story of Climate Action Allies
In this special report, JOHNSON IDOWU examines how thousands of informal waste pickers, driven by poverty and unemployment,…
Spotlight on UN desertification summit as it mulls how to spend $12bn war chest | Desertification
As swathes of the northern hemisphere bake in what could be the hottest year on record, with wildfires…
North Sea fossil fuels could help bridge the gap to clean…
Andy Burnham says accelerating the extraction of oil and gas in the North Sea could help “bridge” the…
Nit pickers ban litter pickers: Council jobsworths forbid volunteers from cleaning streets because they bought the wrong red bin bags
By JOE ROSSITER, REPORTER Published: 20:25 EDT, 16 August 2026 | Updated: 21:03 EDT, 16 August 2026 A…
Bacteria killed billions of sea stars. A Northwest tribe has stepped in to help : NPR
Three-year-old sunflower stars explore the kelp forest for the first time. They come in a rainbow of colors…
Recycling fee put forward as solution to Australia’s growing solar panel waste
One of Australia’s leading science organisations says an additional installation fee of about $10 for each panel could…
Parched Plymouth trees face fatal drought risk
An urgent plea is being made for people to water Plymouth’s trees – or many will not survive…