Gridlock: why it can take eleven years to connect solar farms to the UK network
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Botanists identify thirty-three global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants
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Southern Water, serving 4.7mn UK customers, in discussions with private supplier to tanker water from Norwegian fjords to mitigate against potential supply shortages and drought
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The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant
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Dogs with bags of native wildflower seeds are helping rewild English nature reserve
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I met the activists getting arrested for fighting fossil fuels
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Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway? Taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78%, prompting several to think about pulling out.
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Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on UK onshore windfarms
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Spending an afternoon in the Sizewell [nuclear reactor] control-room simulator
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Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany
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UK law firm files letter of claim on behalf of Madagascar villagers over contamination allegedly from Rio Tinto mine
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Oldham England water quality improved by volunteers planting moss
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Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade
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Melt rate of Greenland ice sheet can predict summer weather in Europe – location, extent and strength of recent freshwater events suggest unusually warm and dry summer
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Beyond the water flow rate: Water pressure and smart timers impact shower efficiency
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How beavers can fully revitalise a farm
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Scottish company Gravitricity is using the Pyhäjärvi mine in Finland to build its first full-scale prototype gravity energy store
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Greta Thunberg and four other climate activists are due to appear in court today after being arrested at a protest outside a gathering of fossil fuel bosses in London
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Norway hit by hurricane-force winds – is climate change making Europe's extreme storms worse?
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UK and Denmark launch Viking Link underwater cable project – potential to transport enough electricity to power up to 2.5 million UK homes
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Live UK National Grid statistics
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Sweden's Aira, which offers subscription service at no upfront cost, has sights set on UK's growing heat pump market
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'Signs of life': Sycamore Gap tree will live on, experts say
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Our strange plan to transform this industrial firth: oysters
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Our search for Scotland's lost highland trees
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Two men arrested in an investigation into a famous tree that was felled near Hadrian's Wall in England
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Boy, 16, arrested after felling of famous 300 year old Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall
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Prince William warns against 'doom and gloom' in eco-debates
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Red sky at night and other weather lore
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A charge on supermarket single-use plastic bags has led to 98% drop in use in England since 2015
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Danish environmental campaigner Merijn Tinga has windsurfed up the Thames to return plastic bottles from the UK which he found in Sweden
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Viking Link joins UK and Denmark power grids for first time – 765km high-voltage cable joins Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire with Jutland in Denmark
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Project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea – Denmark is the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad
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Insulation only provides short-term reduction in household gas consumption
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The UK is wasting a lot of wind power
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Welsh council bids to print McDonald’s customer car number plates on wrappers
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Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated £158,000 to cover legal costs of indigenous people in Sweden's Arctic as they battle a British mining company
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UK looks to Sweden for a solution to nuclear waste – repeated attempts to find a suitable location have been stymied by political intransigence and environmentalists
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British consumers could face even higher bills and potential energy shortages as Norway threatens electricity export cut
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James Lovelock, whose Gaia theory saw the Earth as alive, dies at 103
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a rousing speech from the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury which painted an apocalyptic picture of the future of the planet
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EDF rules out extension of nuclear plant to secure UK winter supplies
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A plastic bag’s 2,000-mile journey shows the messy truth about recycling
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Tyre Extinguishers – deflating SUV tyres as a form of climate action
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Storm Eunice blows off rooftops with highest wind speeds on record in England
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The metres-high mountain of mannequins in the British Midlands
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Storm Arwen power cuts: 30,000 still waiting to be reconnected
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COP26 climate agreement reached in Glasgow with unprecedented reference to fossil fuels
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Sir David Attenborough gives statement at COP26 climate summit in Glasgow
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World's longest undersea power connection was today switched on, allowing Norway and the UK to share renewable energy
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