In this month’s environment news round-up, we lead off with news from the EU and the surprise passing of the bloc’s seemingly dead in the water Nature Restoration Law. We’ll… Read More »Environment News Round-up: June 2024
In this month’s environment news we’ll look at the contrasting fortunes of two major pieces of environmental legislation, one in Scotland and one in the EU. Both faced opposition from… Read More »Environment News Round-up: March 2024
It might be slightly shorter than other months, but there was still no shortage of environment news this February. We lead with UK politics as the Labour Party’s green investment… Read More »Environment News Round-up: February 2024
November was another busy month for environment news as things geared up for the annual United Nations climate conference, or COP. We’ll of course be reporting fully on COP28 next… Read More »Environment News Round-up: November 2023
In this month’s environment news round-up we have details of new EU legislation aiming to help in the fight against global deforestation, as well as a new trade treaty for… Read More »Environment News Round-up: April 2023
February was another busy month with the English, Scottish and Welsh Governments publishing a number of updated environment plans, reviews and frameworks. Meanwhile, HS2 was in the news again. A… Read More »Environment News Round-up: February 2023
Much of the UK’s wildlife is protected to some extent by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended). It is illegal, for example, to uproot any plant or fungi… Read More »An Introduction to UK and EU Wildlife Schedules
September’s news was of course dominated by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96. The Queen was a supporter of a number of animal… Read More »Environment News Round-up: September 2022
Extreme weather events continued to dominate the news this month, with droughts, floods and fires affecting countries around the globe. It was perhaps fitting, then, that both the USA and… Read More »Environment News Round-up: August 2022