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Homes across UK to get low- or no-interest loans to fund solar panels and heat pumps
The UK government launched the Warm Home Loans scheme on Tuesday, offering households low- or interest-free loans between £7,500 and £35,000 to instal…
Marine life in Gulf of Mexico has still not fully recovered from 2010 BP oil spill
A new study published in PNAS found that marine life in the Gulf of Mexico dropped roughly 60% following BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and has…
US corporate lobbyists mounted ‘blitz’ to dilute landmark EU deforestation law, report finds
Mighty Earth, an environmental watchdog, has documented a two-year lobbying campaign by US corporations and trade groups to delay and weaken the EU De…
Revealed: VW, Ford and Tesla batteries linked to destructive deforestation of indigenous lands
Volkswagen, Ford and Tesla source nickel for electric vehicle batteries from mines linked to deforestation of primary rainforest on indigenous lands i…
Cost of balancing Great Britain’s power grid reaches nearly £50m a day
Great Britain's grid operator paid £47.9m on a single day this week to balance the power network by shutting down windfarms in areas with excess elect…
Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
British farms face a record bluetongue outbreak that has already exceeded the total cases from the previous three years combined, according to The Gua…
US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits
DataOne, a Microsoft-linked datacenter in Vineland, New Jersey, emitted health-harming air pollution for nearly a year while operating 62 gas-fired ge…