31 March 2023
Details of how the UK government is planning to reach net zero by 2050 reveal that the five biggest policy areas include decarbonising power and ramping up heat pumps - but will these bets actually pay off?
28 September 2022
Keir Starmer, the leader of the UK's Labour party, has promised to create a publicly owned renewable energy firm. Could it help meet the UK's climate goals?
8 September 2022
The new UK prime minister says ending a moratorium on fracking will “get gas flowing” within six months, but there are many reasons why a boom is unlikely
7 September 2022
Jacob Rees-Mogg, who now oversees the UK government department responsible for energy and climate change, recently called to extract "every last drop" of oil and gas from the North Sea
11 August 2022
Climate change and a growing population mean England needs long-term solutions like new reservoirs and desalination plants, not just short-term fixes like hosepipe bans
2 August 2022
A fire weather index, which estimates how conducive weather conditions are for wildfires, was at its highest ever level as grass fires raged on 19 July, the UK's hottest day
29 July 2022
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says it is important that a clean air law is enacted and hits out at "vested interests" pushing back against his plans to expand a clean air zone to outer London in 2023
28 July 2022
Analysis of how much global warming influenced the UK's heatwave last week is likely to be an underestimate because climate models aren't doing a good job of reproducing how fast temperatures have risen in western Europe
19 July 2022
Coningsby in Lincolnshire has provisionally recorded a temperature of 40.3°C, an event that would be extremely unlikely without climate change, and scientists warn that heatwaves will only get worse
18 July 2022
Four European bison have been released into ancient woodland in Kent, where they should transform the ecosystem
