Environment
‘Unseen suffering and death’ – Action urged to prevent fishing gear deaths of porpoises, dolphins and whales
“The seas around the UK are like an assault course for marine mammals, causing largely unseen suffering and death.”
As temperatures plunged to minus 23C human kindness key to helping homeless
Images of people queueing in the snow for food parcels from charity Kindness Homeless Street Team Glasgow earlier this week sparked an outcry on social media, with some comparing it to Eastern Europe under communist rule.
Johnson slammed as ‘1.3 million children under five are living in poverty’
“The Tory Government’s been stalling on this for months – will the Prime Minister finally act, or will he leave millions of children out in the cold?”
Crown Estate accused of pushing up renewables prices as BP lands wind farm deal
The Crown Estate owns the seabed off the coast of the UK, so is a vital part of freeing up land for offshore wind projects.
Johnson risks “humiliation” as coal mine green-lighted just months before UK holds climate summit
The mine is projected to increase UK emissions by 0.4Mt (megatonnes) of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) per year.
‘Neglect and lack of care’ as rubbish-covered lake brings to light Balkans waste problem
The surface of the lake got covered in a thick layer of waste ranging from plastics to rusty metal scraps, tree trunks and even reportedly a coffin.
‘It sounds harsh to the normal person’ – Australia plans to kill pigeon that crossed Pacific from US
“While it sounds harsh to the normal person – they’d hear that and go ‘This is cruel’, and everything else – I’d think you’d find that AQIS and those sort of people would give their wholehearted support for the idea.”
‘It’s really hard out there’ – Edinburgh chefs distribute food packs to families for just 50p
“It is critical – 1,041 people reached out to us to say ‘please help me eat food today’ and that is a cry for help. That’s a hard thing to do, so that means it’s really hard out there."
‘Nature, for us, is the life of the Indian’ – Forests almost twice the size of UK destroyed in global hotspots
“Nature, for us, is the life of the Indian. Why? It gives pure oxygen, it gives natural food to us, hunting, fishing, native fruits of the jungle, medicine, so, it is important to us, because we live off the jungle,”chief of the Uru-eu-wau-wau indigenous peoples said.