Renewables can meet UK’s electricity needs, says new report
Existing clean energy is able to provide for all of the UK’s electricity needs year-round, according to research from the…
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The Tories are pushing through fracking. Labour will ban it
The first approved shale gas extraction is imminent at Preston New Road despite the damage it will do to the climate…
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Government proposes to end payments for surplus solar energy
Critics have warned that stopping export tarrifs “is grossly unfair” and would mean small producers would be giving away energy for…
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Bitcoin shows the scale of change needed to stop the climate crisis
The cryptocurrency produces as much CO2 a year as a million transatlantic flights – and that number is set to grow.
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“Bizarrely hectoring” John Humphrys criticised for Ed Miliband climate change interview
Perhaps understandably unruffled by the prospect of extinction, the BBC Radio 4 Today programme’s John Humphrys inflicted a trivial and…
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Coal supplied just one per cent of Britain’s electricity this summer
The UK ran without coal power for 33 days over the second quarter of 2018.
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The death of a nine-year-old highlights that pollution is killing Britain’s poorest
After Ella Kissi-Debrah’s death, a legal battle is underway to establish a link between the impact of poor air quality and…
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The aviation industry is under pressure to deliver more cost-effective and environmentally friendly technologies.
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