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No, an Arctic blast is not about to freeze the UK

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UK lobbyists accused of 'greenwashing' oil-rich Azerbaijan before Baku COP summit

Azerbaijan's authoritarian regime has been accused of human rights abuses, including jailing climate activists on 'bogus' charges

Environment
Big Read

Why the Nimbys are wrong about solar farms

Solar Power
Big Read

Labour's biggest Nimby showdown yet: An 11 square mile Nottinghamshire solar farm

Article thumbnail: This photograph shows cows at the farm of Jos Verstraten in Westerbeek, on October 17, 2024, where Dutch farmers are facing a crisis in an upsurge in surplus manure. Dutch farmers are facing a crisis in an upsurge in surplus manure, following the phasing out of a derogation from the EU's Nitrates Directive, which allowed the farmers to exceed the directive's limits on slurry spreading on the farms. The directive aims to limit excess nutrient pollution of the water course often caused by runoff from fields that have been fertilized with manure. Leaving farmers such as Jos Verstraten with the problem of how to dispose of the expected byproduct that their animals produce. (Photo by Nick Gammon / AFP) (Photo by NICK GAMMON/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: This photograph shows cows at the farm of Jos Verstraten in Westerbeek, on October 17, 2024, where Dutch farmers are facing a crisis in an upsurge in surplus manure. Dutch farmers are facing a crisis in an upsurge in surplus manure, following the phasing out of a derogation from the EU's Nitrates Directive, which allowed the farmers to exceed the directive's limits on slurry spreading on the farms. The directive aims to limit excess nutrient pollution of the water course often caused by runoff from fields that have been fertilized with manure. Leaving farmers such as Jos Verstraten with the problem of how to dispose of the expected byproduct that their animals produce. (Photo by Nick Gammon / AFP) (Photo by NICK GAMMON/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: Surfers Against Sewage were joined by local surfers, paddle boarders, dippers and sea swimmers for a Paddle Out on Hythe beach to protest about the continued dumping of sewage into the UK's seas and beaches on the 18th May 2024, in Hythe, United Kingdom. Surfers Against Sewage organised a day of national protest across the country campaigning for water companies again to stop dumping sewage in our seas and rivers. (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: Surfers Against Sewage were joined by local surfers, paddle boarders, dippers and sea swimmers for a Paddle Out on Hythe beach to protest about the continued dumping of sewage into the UK's seas and beaches on the 18th May 2024, in Hythe, United Kingdom. Surfers Against Sewage organised a day of national protest across the country campaigning for water companies again to stop dumping sewage in our seas and rivers. (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)
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Farming
Big Read

Dangerous sewage is being spread on farms and could end up back in our bodies

Water Pollution
Save Britain's Rivers

Sewage at record levels... but watchdog's testing drops to 12-year low

Article thumbnail: Former US President Donald Trump visited the UK in the spring to play golf at the Turnberry club he owns in Scotland (Photo: ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP via Getty Images)
Water Pollution
Save Britain's Rivers

Force water firms to divert shareholder profits to stop sewage, Lords tell Labour

Energy bills
Explained

What your new home's EPC energy efficiency rating means for your bills

Environment
Explained

Carbon capture will push up energy bills - but could save you money in the long run

Rivers

How the Netherlands transformed its rivers - and what the UK could learn

Housing

Prince William to earn millions from homes built on farmland despite green pledges