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Environmentally friendly recycling of cars
Recycling scrapped cars plays an important role in reducing pollution by decreasing the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. A new study has investigated advanced technologies to increase the recovery rate from e...
Act Now – Natural England
'Act now to save our natural environment or Britain's most precious wildlife will be lost forever'
Exxon facing shareholder revolt over approach to climate change
A shareholder revolt at ExxonMobil led by the billionaire Rockefeller family has won the support of four significant British institutional investors who will call on Monday for a shakeup in the governance of the world's ...
Green revolution to create 50,000 jobs for Scotland
Scotland is on the brink of a green jobs revolution with 50,000 posts expected to be created in the next decade, careers experts claim. Wind analysts, turbine technicians and heat-pump installers will all be needed to co...
2007 summer floods – authoritative hydrological analysis published
The most comprehensive and authoritative hydrological analysis of the record-breaking summer 2007 floods has been published.
Defra: living within our environmental means is more important than ever
Publishing his Department's Annual Report, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn reaffirmed Defra's commitment to helping people live within their environmental means and acknowledged the role of staff in some key achievemen...
Malcolm Wicks : Renewable Energy – its role in the UK
The Energy Minister, Malcolm Wicks MP, discusses the role of renewable energy in the overall energy mix strategy of the Government and highlights the economic opportunities that renewable energy brings to the UK. He conf...
To fight climate change, 'we need to put a price on carbon'
Now, more than ever, we must build bridges. We must build bridges between environmental sustainability, social justice and economic growth because only a solution that addresses all of these concerns will ensure success....
Red Hot Climate Election Issue in Australia
The campaign to re-elect the Rudd Government begins in July. It will be an incendiary month for shaping the direction of Australia's climate change policy.
Naples Challenged by European Commission
On the road to a solution for the old question of waste in Naples, the Italian has made progress, but not sufficient.