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New Report: 'On the Go' Recycling – London Shamed
The London Assembly's environment committee has recently published a report, which indicates that recycling rates in London are among the lowest in the UK and calls on the Mayor to tackle the mountain of waste produced b...
Embedding environmental practices into farming behaviour
A Dutch study has investigated the process by which farmers incorporate environmental policy into their thinking and behaviour, a process known as 'internalisation'.
London's Pollution Causing Decreased Lung Capacity in Children
Early findings from a study underway at the Centre for Paediatrics at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry indicates that the lung capacity of 8- and 9-year-olds is 5% worse in London than the national ...
Low Carbon Vehicle Expert Survey
A survey of diverse experts has concluded that the government must do more to lead the transition to low carbon transport. The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) - a partnership including over 300 leading organisati...
Kerbside or Co–mingled collections: Quality should come first
Sorting household recycling at the kerbside is the best and cheapest option in most cases says the Waste & Resources Action Programme.
A dram a day to keep climate change at bay
Greenhouse gas flavoured whisky is on its way out. Scottish distillers, makers of iconic Scotch whiskies, have agreed to �green' their production processes, meaning that whisky drinkers everywhere soon will be able to si...
Mandelson calls for politics redrawn on green lines
The fight against climate change is being used by the government to regain the public's confidence in politics, the business secretary Lord Mandelson said today.
Captured on camera: 50 years of climate change in the Himalayas
When Fritz M�ller and Erwin Schneider battled ice storms, altitude sickness and snow blindness in the 1950s to map, measure and photograph the Imja glacier in the Himalayas, they could never have foreseen that the gigant...
And in London it will be 41 Celsius
Now for the weather in July . . . 2080. The Met Office is predicting Mediterranean-style summers for Devon, a steamy 41C in London and the southeast, followed by winter storms and floods in northeastern towns such as Hul...
Is climate change killing life in the Mediterranean Sea?
Global warming may be linked to increasing mass deaths of marine life in the Mediterranean Sea.