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Expanding existing leased space near City Hall is crucial for the reborn Department of Environment and a new civilian police oversight commission, committee members were told. But some members complained there’s vacant government-owned space in their wards.

Millions of homes were built before Australia introduced housing energy efficiency standards in 2003. They’re leaky. Gaps around windows, doors and between building materials allow air to move in and out. So people tend to compensate, with more heating and cooling. It’s costly and damaging for the environment.

Regulator asks if £37.5 million payment breached embattled supplier’s licence requirements

On the morning of December 6 1917, a French cargo ship called SS Mont-Blanc collided with a Norwegian vessel in the harbour of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. The SS Mont-Blanc, which was laden with 3,000 tons of high explosives destined for the battlefields of the first world war, caught…

French parliament backed a proposal to ban single-use electronic cigarettes, considered to be gateways to tobacco addiction for teenagers and harmful to the environment.

As leaders, officials and activists descend on Dubai for United Nations climate talks to discuss saving Earth, another environmental crisis is nearby

Campaigners today launched an urgent petition calling on Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to reopen Edinburgh’s Radical Road path, following a…

Gaza’s water, soil and air have been devastated. And reconstruction will add to the carbon emissions.

Coalition of climate NGOs highlights that there are more fossil fuel lobbyists than delegates from 10 most climate-vulnerable countries combined

Legislation being debated in the Senate will create a market to encourage private spending on projects that protect and restore biodiversity

The e-cigarettes come in a range of flavours which have been attracting children while they are also bad for the environment