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What is more, plastic lawns arguably reduce overall sustainability by destroying habitats, decreasing soil organisms, polluting runoff water

A few days ago, there was a report telling us that we have about 12 years to fundamentally change how we treat our planet, or climate change will be both irreversible and catastrophic. Alone in Space never tells us outright why the Earth was dying, meaning the giant spaceship on ...

A hilarious new advert has been rolled out in the US encouraging young people to vote by using reverse psychology. Although voter participation among the young has been going up in America just 50 per cent turned out in the last election, with those who did cast a vote overwhelmingly ...

An environmental campaigner has failed in his High Court action to temporarily block energy firm Cuadrilla from fracking in Lancashire. Cuadrilla chief executive Francis Egan had described the challenge as “a last gasp attempt at trying to frustrate the process.” Previously Bob Dennett, who brought the case and had raised ...

Preparations for Princess Eugenie’s nuptials are underway as Windsor gets set to host its second royal wedding of the year in lavish style. The day promises to be bigger than Harry and Meghan’s showstopping event with 850 guests expected to be in attendance, some 250 more than the aforementioned celebrity ...

Eastlea Community School is set to become the seventh east London school to close due to being infested by Britain's most dangerous spiders - the False Widow

Greenhouse gas emissions must be cut almost in half by 2030 to avert global environmental catastrophe, says a damning UN report. The landmark UN document has concluded that if we don’t drastically cut Greenhouse emissions, then the earth will see the disappearance of Arctic Ice, loss of all coral reefs and the ...

Despite Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Michael Gove promising that chlorine-washed chicken would be staying off British menus after fellow Brexiter Liam Fox avoided the question, the Tories’ former Brexit minister suggested it may be on post-Brexit menus after all. The EU has banned chlorine-washed chicken ...

By Rupert Read and Samuel Webb If the last six months have proven anything it is that negotiating Brexit is quite clearly an unmanageable task. With the likelihood that Britain will be forced into a no-deal scenario the very future of the UK itself looks rather poor at this point. And ...