Greenhouse gas emissions in the Republic of Ireland are at their lowest in 30 years dropping by 6.8% in 2023. This is the largest reduction outside of recession years. The energy sector saw the biggest decrease, with emissions falling by 21.6% due to more imported electricity and renewable energy.
The Met Office has released a map detailing what areas of the UK will be hit by the fallout from Hurrican Kirk
Villagers in India have beaten to death a wolf believed to be the last of a six-member pack that killed nine people, eight of them children, wildlife officials said on Sunday.
A tornado warning has been released for all of the south west this evening up until the early hours of tomorrow morning.
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Five wild boars were spotted "on a night out" near The Golden Lion pub in Cinderford, Gloucestershire. The feral pigs have become increasingly common in the area, particularly around the Forest of Dean, where they have been known to attack pets and learn bin collection days to scavenge for food. Landlady Nikki Norman noted that it's "quite normal" for the animals to roam town, adding that customers find it "really great." Wild boars were hunted to extinction in Britain 700 years ago but re-established in the Forest in the 1990s.
Close behind Hurricane Kirk, Leslie has now strengthened into a hurricane.
Hurricane Kirk is currently maintaining category 4 strength in the central North Atlantic Ocean
Less than 10 days after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, the state is bracing for another potentially devastating blow from a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, this one a potential Category 3 storm.
A black bear was hit and killed while trying to eat pancakes on the side of a road, an animal rescue group said. Appalachian Bear Rescue (ABR), based just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, said the bear was struck by a vehicle near the city of Townsend. On Wednesday, the rescue group said it was "able to identify that this bear was male and further, what had enticed him to get so close to a dangerous, busy road in the first place - human food".
Forty businesses sign open letter to Sadiq Khan saying extending £15 daily levy to electric vans will backfire
Hurricane Milton is intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico, reaching speeds of 85 mph on Sunday night as a Category 1 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. Late Monday night, Milton is forecast to reach Category 4 status and stay at that strength through Tuesday before weakening slightly on Wednesday before it makes landfall as a Category 3, per the NHC. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Milton is currently forecast to make landfall in the Madeira Beach area of Pinellas County around 5 p.m. on Wednesday, adding that the forecast path of the storm could change over the next few days.
Labour’s proposed ban on importing hunting trophies could do more harm than good, a study by the University of Oxford has found.
Florida's susceptibility to hurricanes doesn't deter millions of people from buying homes there. Now some may be reevaluating the risks and costs.
A pilot whale was found by dog walkers on an Isle of Wight beach.
A caravan site in a small village just outside Swindon has been refused by Wiltshire Council after it was deemed an unsuitable location for 12 Gypsy families.
A car has been seized in Shaftesbury and is suspected to have been involved in the illegal dumping of waste in Dorset.
Two UK safari parks have completed a rhino swap and united sisters for the first time as part of a conservation programme to help save the species from extinction. Bonnie, a two-tonne Southern white rhino, has arrived at West Midlands Safari Park while Granville made his way to Woburn Safari Park, in Bedfordshire. Granville was born at West Midlands in 2018 to mum Ailsa, who coincidentally is also eight-year-old Bonnie’s sister meaning they have now met for the first time. Bonnie is joining the herd of eight white rhinos at the Worcestershire attraction while Granville has gone off to be part of a breeding programme a Woburn. The attractions say its hoped their collaborative efforts will go some way to preserving genetic diversity of the species which are at risk of becoming extinct.
It has been a hectic few months for farmer and author James Rebanks, what with his family’s farm in the Lake District to tend, as well as a much-anticipated new book, the follow up to his prize-winning best-sellers The Shepherd’s Life and English Pastoral. To add to the pressure, over the summer he received an invitation from the new government asking him to sit on the board of directors of the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the ministry responsible for the nation’s a
Households in Oxford will pay four tenths more to heat their homes than they did before the energy crisis, new figures show.
Comments Greene made via social media have prompted backlash and discussion.
