The Latest Breaking News from Environment

Supermarkets to change how they sell fruit and veg - and it's good for planet

More than 80% of apples and 88%of cucumbers are sold wrapped in plastic, but now major supermarkets have agreed to cut back on this by 2025 to help protect the environment

Daily Mirror · Mar 3, 2022

Portugal may limit street cleaning, watering of green spaces as drought drags

Facing a worrying winter drought, Portugal may have to limit irrigation of green spaces and use of water for street cleaning in the most affected regions, the environment minister said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Feb 23, 2022

Scottish Water urge Lanarkshire residents and businesses to bin wipes and ban plastic wipes

Appeal comes as part of major new campaign to help protect the environment.

Daily Record · Feb 23, 2022

Koalas now considered endangered in NSW, Queensland and the ACT

Environmental groups say the federal government's decision to upgrade koalas from "vulnerable" to "endangered" in three jurisdictions is "grim" but "important".

ABC News · Feb 10, 2022

Environment Secretary's office rent money handed to Insulate Britain supporters

Rent money has been donated to help cover activists' legal fees

Wales Online · Feb 10, 2022

Morrison government spends $50 million saving koalas while taking away their homes

Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley is reportedly poised to decide whether some koala populations should be listed as endangered, as new research shows her government continues to approve land clearing in koala habitat.

The Conversation · Feb 8, 2022

Anglers ‘heartbroken’ as stretch of River Tone stripped of trees

Environment Agency devastates banks of river near Taunton ‘to protect properties in Bathpool’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2022

Waste-fed power plant helping deliver Dundee’s environmental ambitions

The factory in the Baldovie Industrial Estate will convert the city’s waste to energy for the next 25-years.

Daily Record · Jan 27, 2022

Great Barrier Reef to receive another $1 billion in funding to save jobs and environment

The Environment Minister is playing down the threat of an "in danger" world heritage listing for the Great Barrier Reef, saying it can be seen "from outer space, but not from an office in Paris".

ABC News · Jan 27, 2022

The big dig: Communities caught between a rock and a hard place

While the region's quarries struggle to keep up with the demand, concerns about the industry's environmental, health and social impacts are growing as loud as the rumble of trucks that travel along the roads of Port Stephens and Mid Coast Council areas.

Newcastle Herald · Jan 21, 2022