‘It’s disgusting’ – Fly-tipping brings rats to York supermarket car park
An Acomb resident has called for a fly-tipping dumping ground in a neighbouring supermarket’s car park to be…
‘The sorest my legs have ever been’: hordes to descend on Hackney for litter-picking world cup | Waste
Armed with gloves, metal tongs and plastic rubbish sacks, hordes of determined litter-pickers will descend on Hackney Marshes…
How drought and sea level rise feed on each other
Overpumping groundwater, worsening droughts and more rapid evaporation due to higher temperatures have caused a drastic decline in…
Trump effort to ditch greenhouse gas finding ignores ‘clearcut’ science, expert says | US Environmental Protection Agency
One of the architects of a landmark 16-year-old finding on pollution’s impact on health that the Trump administration…
Cosmetic sustainability: how to look green without changing a thing
In a world addicted to appearance, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) has become the perfect costume. Some things…
Southern Water draw up business restrictions in ‘drought’
Businesses could see sweeping restrictions, including the forced closure of certain swimming pools and car washes “if necessary”. Major…
Japan’s beam tech transforms forever plastics into reusable feedstock
Researchers in Japan have developed a method that reduces the energy needed to recycle Teflon by 50%, using…
Eyre Peninsula desalination plant costs blow out by $140 million
The cost of developing a desalination plant on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula has blown out by $140 million…
Make wet wipe producers pay for polluting England’s waterways, says report | Pollution
Wet wipe producers should be charged to remove their pollution from England’s waterways, the author of a government…
Antarctic phytoplankton communities restructure under shifting sea-ice regimes
Basu, S. & Mackey, K. Phytoplankton as key mediators of the biological carbon pump: their responses to a…
Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row
Vegetation like that in the Chapada das Mesas National Park, Brazil, is no longer removing as much CO₂…
‘We’re watching it get worse all the time’: as fish vanish in SA’s algal bloom, livelihoods are also at stake | South Australia
Nathan Eatts can remember the last day he caught a squid. It was 18 April, a few weeks…