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new houses with solar panels on roofs in Stirling, UK

Energy price cap means now might be the best time to green your home

29 March 2022

The cost of heating UK homes using traditional technology is rising this week – making green options like solar panels and heat pumps a more affordable alternative

This picture taken on March 7, 2022 shows the current condition of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. - The Great Barrier Reef has again been hit with

Great Barrier Reef suffers first mass bleaching under cooling La Niña

25 March 2022

Corals have turned white across all four of the reef’s main areas, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña climate phenomenon, in the natural wonder's sixth mass bleaching event of modern times

Shale gas drilling in Blackpool, UK in August 2017

UK chose to pay back £640,000 to fracking firms after shale gas ban

25 March 2022

The UK government imposed a moratorium on shale gas extraction in November 2019, leaving fracking firms that had paid licence fees out of pocket, but the country's oil and gas regulator decided to refund them