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02 Dec 2025

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Photo by Gustavo Quepóns   The UK Government published its revised Environmental Improvement Plan on 1 December 2025, setting out a roadmap for restoring England’s environment through ten long-term goals covering restored nature, air, water, chemicals and pesticides, waste, resources, climate change, environmental hazards, biosecurity and access to nature. The cross-government plan commits to “cleaning up our rivers, lakes […]

02 Sep 2025

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Photo by Liam McGrath   Environmental campaigners are warning of a potential “catastrophic disaster” as plans emerge to dump 850,000 tonnes of contaminated sediment at sea as part of a £150 million redevelopment of Cornwall’s Falmouth Docks. £150 million development at environmental cost Falmouth Docks and Engineering Company and A&P Falmouth have applied for planning permission […]

19 Aug 2025

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Photo by Naja Bertolt Jensen   Global negotiations to forge the world’s first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution have collapsed for the second time in eight months, as countries remain fundamentally divided over whether to limit plastic production or focus solely on waste management solutions. The sixth round of talks under the Intergovernmental […]

12 Aug 2025

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Photo by Naja Bertolt Jensen    High-stakes negotiations resumed in Geneva on 5th August for a legally binding global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, with delegates from 175 countries attempting to finalise an agreement that has eluded negotiators for nearly three years.  The resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2), scheduled to run […]

24 Jun 2025

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Image description: A person holding out their hands palms up, covered with a thick coating of black oil after an oil spill in the Niger delta. Image by Jerry Chidi / Climate Visuals.   The UK High Court recently delivered a milestone judgement for environmental justice: Shell (and its former Nigerian subsidiary) can be held […]