Life

Briefing: Beavers ‘breathe new life’ into Dorset as dams built and biodiversity returns

Strategic angle: National Trust reports positive impact of beavers on local habitats one year after reintroduction.

Editorial Staff Mar 27

Briefing: More than 6m vapes and pods discarded weekly in UK despite single-use ban, study finds

Strategic angle: Waste management companies warn that recycling systems are under strain from the sheer volume of discarded vapes.

Editorial Staff Mar 27

Ugandan farmers use British court to try to stop East Africa oil pipeline

Strategic angle: The farmers and their lawyers will argue that a UK-based entity linked to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline has breached Ugandan law and construction should halt The post Ugandan farmers use British court to try to sto

Briefing: EPA Approves Sale of Higher Ethanol Fuel in Bid to Lower Gas Prices

Strategic angle: Higher blend has been prohibited in warm weather due to smog concerns.

Briefing: Church leaders criticise Christian owner of GB News over channel’s climate attacks

Strategic angle: Exclusive: Paul Marshall also challenged over his own ‘misleading’ statements and £1.8bn of fossil fuel investments in his hedge fund.

Briefing: Octopus reports sharp rise in solar panel sales since start of Iran war

Strategic angle: Firm’s sales up 54% this month and Good Energy reports doubling of interest in solar after latest oil price shock.

Briefing: Sewage released into England’s rivers and seas nearly 300,000 times last year

Strategic angle: Campaigners criticise frequent use of storm overflows during drought conditions.

Briefing: Modern agriculture is collapsing under climate change. Indigenous farming has answers.

Strategic angle: A new global review reveals a critical “gap between advocacy and evidence” when it comes to scaling traditional agriculture to fight climate change.

Briefing: Guest post: How declining cloudiness is accelerating global warming

Strategic angle: For the past two decades, low-level cloud cover has been declining, increasing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

Briefing: Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions in 2025 grew at slowest rate in two decades

Strategic angle: India’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew by 0.5% in the second half of 2025.

Briefing: Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas

Strategic angle: The Iran war has triggered another fossil-fuel energy crisis, with surging global prices and increasing misinformation.

Briefing: US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

Strategic angle: US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says.

Briefing: Trump’s $1B payoff to stop offshore wind is even stranger than it sounds

Strategic angle: The government is paying TotalEnergies to halt a wind farm it isn’t building, in exchange for fossil fuel investments it’s already making.

Briefing: ‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

Strategic angle: Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance.

Briefing: US public health groups urge firing of EPA boss Zeldin, saying he ‘brazenly betrayed’ agency

Strategic angle: Advocates claim Lee Zeldin’s EPA has compromised health protections and reduced resources.

Briefing: Green energy boss backs more North Sea oil and gas production

Strategic angle: GB Energy chief Jürgen Maier argues that increased production could provide economic benefits and aid the transition from fossil fuels.

Briefing: Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds

Strategic angle: Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%.

Briefing: More North Sea drilling will put UK at mercy of fossil fuel markets, ministers say

Strategic angle: Ministers warn that expanding North Sea drilling could jeopardize the UK's energy sovereignty.

Briefing: What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?

Strategic angle: Understanding the significance of zettajoules in the context of climate change and energy measurement.