Liam Dutton
Where you can expect to see snow in the UK this weekend
As cold Arctic air returns to the UK in the coming days, some places will see significant snow. But where, when and how much?
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4 mins
“We will be held to account for this 25 year plan” says Environment Minister Therese Coffey
Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Environment Minister Therese Coffey and I began by asking her why it will take until 2042 to get rid of avoidable plastic waste.
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5 mins
PM battles plastic waste – but what about the rest of the environment?
Theresa May has promised to tackle what she describes as a “scourge” of plastic waste. The Prime Minister visited a bird sanctuary as she outlined her 25-year plan for the environment. Critics say her plans need to be backed with legislation and take too long to do anything. But does her wider environment plan really…
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5 mins
Gove plans post-Brexit funding for farmers
Environmentally friendly farming will be the watchword once Brexit has happened. That was the message from Environment Secretary Michael Gove today as he set out plans to pay farmers for their stewardship of the countryside rather than how many acres they have. Mr Gove did admit, however, the current EU system of subsidy many farmers…
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4 mins
Pentagon admits secret UFO investigations
In the heart of the Nevada desert, Area 51 has become the holy grail of conspiracy theorists – home, they say, to a top secret US military base for the study of extra-terrestrials. But now it has emerged that the theorists might not have been that far off. It has been reported that the Pentagon…
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Liam Dutton
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Liam Dutton
Why you shouldn’t believe a UK snow forecast more than three days ahead
Predicting snow in the UK is difficult and weather computer models rarely get it right more than a few days ahead. But why is this the case?
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4 mins
Fight against malaria has stalled, World Health Organisation says.
Progress in the fight against Malaria has stalled, the World Health Organisation warned this week. Funding has levelled off and after years of progress, countries where malaria is endemic have become complacent. The W.H.O’s annual Malaria Report finds five million more people died of the disease in 2016 than in the previous year. Many scientists…
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3 mins
Wildlife crime
Wildlife charities say crimes against animals are not being properly recorded and the perpetrators are going unpunished.
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5 mins
WikiLeaks lobbied for Assange ambassador role
Having been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for over five years, you’d think the last place WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would want to go is another embassy. But it’s emerged that WikiLeaks lobbied the Trump campaign to get them to publicly endorse Julian Assange as a candidate to be Australia’s next ambassador…
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6 mins
Yorkshire village takes on Swiss petrochemical giant over fracking injunction
A south Yorkshire village will take on the Swiss petrochemical giant INEOS over a wide-ranging injunction to protect its fracking operations.
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Gary Gibbon
What’s Theresa May taking to Brussels?
Theresa May has gone with some kind of sweetener on EU citizens’ rights which she hopes will break the impasse.
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3 mins
Gene editing used to learn more about early life
Scientists have used pioneering gene editing techniques to begin to understand the very earliest stages in the development of a human embryo. The research, being published today in the journal Nature, could in future help improve IVF treatment and even pave the way for the creation of stem cells to cure disease.
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3 mins
Wind power cheaper than ever before
Renewable energy is having a moment: next week, the result of competitive auctions for contracts to provide clean electricity for the UK will be revealed, and they’re likely to show that the cost of offshore wind power is now cheaper than ever before. The new generation of wind farms will be able to produce more…
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4 mins
‘Real-world’ emissions tests for new cars
New cars are facing tougher emissions tests from today. The “real-world” requirement is designed to stop manufacturers from cheating results after the Volkswagen Group fitted software to diesel models which manipulated emissions readings in America.
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3 mins
Former EPA boss: Trump’s ‘denial’ of climate change is ‘dangerous’
Former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman – who was head of the US Environmental Protection Agency under President Bush – says President Trump’s ‘denial’ of climate change is ‘dangerous for our future’.