Environment

“While Covid-19 generated a large international health and economic crisis from which it will take years to recover, it is crucial to remember that climate change will continue to pose an ongoing and increasing threat to human lives, ecosystems, economies and societies for centuries to come."

“I’m told that in 2019 I was the most trolled person in the entire world, male or female. Now, eight months of that I wasn’t even visible, I was on maternity leave or with a baby.

“Predictions of deaths among people who have nowhere else to go, other than our streets, or sleeping in communal night shelters that are not Covid-secure, must act as a wake-up call to Government."

Despite well publicised problems at HMP Birmingham, Medway secure training centre & Brook House immigration centre - and a late legal challenge from rival bidder MTC - G4S has won the huge contract.

Researchers say their work highlights the ‘extreme and unusual’ projected Greenland ice sheet losses for the 21st century.

"It is getting out of control and we need to stop it as soon as possible. We are the problem, not the virus, but for whatever reason people just don't seem to care."

The process would allow plastics to be “made and reused endlessly, reducing our reliance on fossil resources”.

"Visiting National Trust sites just got less risky now Anne Widdecombe has cancelled her membership. Their decision to teach history has removed any chance that you might run into her."

BP was recently fined £7,000 over crude oil discharge in North Sea