London’s first ‘recycled road’ is laid in Tower Hamlets
TOWER Hamlets has become the first borough in London to get a ‘recycled road’ made partly from old tyres that would otherwise have been...
Centre that investigates energy challenges of a net zero future receives funding boost
NEW funding for the UK Energy Research Centre, which extends across 20 institutions and is hosted by the UCL Energy Institute, will enable engineers,...
Yorkshire Water looking to save millions of litres of water in new trial
YORKSHIRE Water is working with Itron on a new smart meter water leakage trial in Sheffield which it hopes could play a key role...
Sellafield receipt and disposal of radioactive waste permit changed
THE ENVIRONMENT Agency has carried out a major review of Sellafield Ltd's Radioactive Substances Activities permit for the first time since the early 2000s.
The...
Air quality in London has ‘significantly improved’ since 2016
NEW data shows that air quality in some of London’s worst pollution hotspots has 'significantly improved' since 2016.
The figures reveal that during 2016, London’s...
More than a quarter of a million children live in literary poverty
NEW research reveals that more than a quarter of a million UK primary school children are experiencing literary poverty.
Literary poverty is defined by BookTrust,...
127,000 properties flood-protected this winter as more heavy rainfall expected this weekend
APPROXIMATELY 600 Environment Agency officers are deployed across England as flood warnings remain in place across the country, with ongoing flooding impacting parts of...
COP26 Private Finance Agenda aims to ensure every financial decision takes climate change into...
THE COP 26 agenda has been launched to help private finance support the whole economy transition to net zero.
The objective of the new COP26...
Norway’s wealth fund backs European oil firms’ climate plans
Norway’s $1.1 trillion wealth fund, the world’s biggest, welcomed a shift among European oil and gas firms towards greener policies yesterday.
Top energy firms including...
2020 must be year of action following “decidedly mixed” progress on infrastructure priorities, says...
INFRASTRUCTURE spending must be set within a proper long term strategy in order to avoid repeating past mistakes and to face climate change, says...
