How changes to UK planning law could become ‘a licence to kill nature’ If you walk down an unpromising, overgrown pathway which winds behind a school on Portsea Island in Portsmouth, you are rewarded a few minutes later when the landscape bursts open to reveal the vast estuary stretching across to Porchester Castle. WhenContinue reading “Changes to UK planning law”
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Down to Earth for January 30, 2025
09/01/2025 How flora and fauna are evolving before our eyes, in the face of climate adversity Patrick Greenfield During Britain’s industrial revolution, the peppered moth became one of the most famous examples of rapid evolution. The black and white insect, widespread in the northern hemisphere, largely disappeared from urban areas in England as its habitatContinue reading “Down to Earth for January 30, 2025”
A selection of news on the earth
Looking back at 2022, what happened around our environment.
Composted reads for the third week of August 2022
As drought blights the UK, our politicians have their heads buried in the sand Caroline Lucas England’s privatised water system is compounding the climate emergency. Instead of fixing it, the government has gone awol. Rivers and reservoirs are evaporating in front of our eyes. Water may soon be rationed and crop irrigation restricted. Drought, andContinue reading “Composted reads for the third week of August 2022”
Charities demand radicalism in face of officials’ delay
Placing faith in net-zero targets and attempting to offset future carbon emissions with “business as usual” would condemn the world to catastrophe, a coalition of green and human rights groups warned on 8 November.
Some View on the World 