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4 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Esme Stallard |Jonah Fisher |Becky Dale |Rob England

Water companies released raw sewage into England's rivers and seas for a record 3.61 million hours last year, a slight increase on 2023. The data released by Environment Agency on Thursday showed that although the number of spills was down each spill lasted longer on average - resulting in a higher total number of hours. Some spilling can be legal, but concern has been mounting amongst scientists about the harm that regular sewage spilling is causing the country's aquatic life.

Jan 9, 2025 | yahoo.com | Mark Poynting |Erwan Rivault |Becky Dale

The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this. The European Copernicus climate service, one of the main global data providers, said on Friday that 2024 was the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold, as well as the world's hottest on record.

Jan 9, 2025 | flipboard.com | Mark Poynting |Erwan Rivault |Becky Dale

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Jan 9, 2025 | europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer |Mark Poynting |Erwan Rivault |Becky Dale

by Mark Poynting, Erwan Rivault and Becky Dale The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this. The European Copernicus climate service, one of the main global data providers, said on Friday that 2024 was the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold, as well as the world’s hottest on record.

Jan 7, 2025 | envirolink.org | Mark Poynting |Becky Dale

From BBC Getty ImagesWind provided more electricity than ever last year as the UK moved further away from planet-warming fossil fuels to power the nation, new data shows. Wind generated nearly 83 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity across Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), up from nearly 79TWh in 2023, show figures from the National Energy System Operator (Neso), which coordinates electricity distribution.