Boris Johnson is to announce the first new round of North Sea exploration licences since 2019, according to The Times. New licences will take, on average, 28 years to start production. The UK does not own its oil and gas, so fossil fuels extracted will be sold…
If Sunak were serious about boosting our energy security while keeping energy bills down, he’d remove the absurd barriers holding back cheap, homegrown renewables and launch a nationwide insulation programme to tackle energy waste in our homes
A new design collaboration with illustrator Ananya Rao Middleton highlights the connected struggles for environmental justice, and a more inclusive future for the green movement.
COP26 today saw a flurry of announcements on forests – among them a new agreement between governments, including Brazil, to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. But Greenpeace slammed the announcement as a green light for another decade of forest destruction. Responding from Glasgow to the announcement, Greenpeace Brazil executive…
São Paulo, May 7, 2021 – Rainforest destruction in the Brazilian Amazon has hit a new record high for the month of April, according to the latest government data. Figures from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), released today,…
The UK government has today granted Shell a new permit to extract gas from the Jackdaw field, east of Aberdeen. Greenpeace believes this permit approval could be unlawful, and will consider taking legal action [1]. Ami McCarthy, political campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said: “Approving Jackdaw is a…
The four Greenpeace activists who draped 200 sq metres of oil-black fabric over the Prime Minister’s £2m manor house in Yorkshire have been arrested by North Yorkshire police.
The UK has the busiest private jet route, the most polluting route and the most flights overall out of any European country, according to a new analysis.
Concerns over climate and nature are higher than the national average in the Blue Wall and scores of marginal seats, a major new survey of 20,000 people shows. Get the full report here.
Scientists are braving the freezing Antarctic conditions to count chinstrap penguins - and it’s not looking good. Penguin numbers in the area have dropped by around two-thirds, but a new network of ocean sanctuaries could help them recover.
Sometimes climate change seems far away, then we’re hit with heatwaves, droughts, floods and fires. 2022’s summer of disasters broke records worldwide.
As governments meet at the UN to negotiate towards an historic Global Ocean Treaty, a groundbreaking study by leading marine biologists has mapped out how to protect over a third of the world’s oceans by 2030