Environment
Satellites aiming to measure carbon emissions ‘will not be used to police world’
The European Commission’s Dinka Dinkova said the data would be used as a tool to verify and monitor.
Extinction Rebellion protester, 91, tells court he ‘trembles’ for future generations
A 91-year-old man has told a court he deliberately disobeyed police orders during an Extinction Rebellion protest
UK’s most polluted towns raise early death risk ‘by equivalent of 150 cigarettes a year’
The British Heart Foundation said air pollution must be declared “a public health emergency” and 11,000 coronary heart disease and stroke deaths each year in the UK are caused by particulate matter air pollution.
Labour plans free breakfasts for pupils as it vows to ‘poverty proof’ schools
Under its education proposals, the party also plans to recruit 20,000 more teachers and cap primary class sizes at 30.
Climate change ‘causing birds to shrink’
Sparrows, thrushes and other migrators have got smaller over the last four decades - and climate change is to blame, according to a new study
Baby porpoises in Britain are being poisoned by their mother’s milk which has high levels of pollutants
The chemicals are particularly toxic during brain development and are transferred by female harbour porpoises to their young through their milk.
One of the world’s largest ice sheets is becoming unstable
Five billion litres of water was drained to the bed of the kilometre-thick Greenland Ice Sheet in under five hours – enough to lift it up by over half a metre.
Foodbank launching ‘reverse advent calendar’ asking people to donate daily gifts
Provide Devon based in Honicknowle in Plymouth is asking for donations so they can be distributed to crisis-hit families in desperate need of food.
UN chief calls warns climate change near ‘point of no return’
Antonio Guterres made his warning ahead of the crucial two-week climate conference in Madrid.