Environment
Everything you need to know about causes and effects, plus how to protect yourself.
This unseasonal heat is unnatural, wrong, and a sign that this poor old planet of ours is in serious trouble
"Even a single piece of plastic can be fatal."
More than one million plastic bottles were sold at the festival in 2017.
You'll need a sewing kit, some glue, and a bit of imagination ✂️
Two rare radiated tortoises hatched at Chester Zoo are the first of their kind in seven years. The golf-ball-sized cuties are from a species that has been pushed to the edge of extinction in their home environment of Madagascar, with hunting, poaching and trading reducing their numbers by 30 million in 30 years. Their mum, 50-year-old Smoothsides, laid the eggs last October.
The brand is the first to be certified flushable by Water UK 🚽
The loose fruit and veg will be cheaper than packaged equivalents.
More than three quarters of rubbish was plastic.
Air pollution is a major public health risk, ranking alongside cancer, heart disease and obesity. Millions of premature deaths are linked to air pollution each year, up to 36,000 of those early deaths are in the UK. Here are some small changes you can make to help reduce your exposure to air pollution.