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Virtual private networks help us to enjoy a safer internet experience and to access content without restrictions. But like with any technology, VPNs still have moments of weakness.  The prospect of sluggish speeds, frustrating crashes and limited levels of access, some VPNs can be highly problematic at times when you...
Read the report summaryRead the conclusions and recommendationsRead the full report The Treasury Committee has published a unanimously-agreed report as part of its decarbonisation and green finance inquiry: Net Zero and the Future of Green Finance. Financial products should have climate impact labelsGreenwashing of financial products must be preventedFCA should further...
New research shows that over 11,600 jobs could be created in Dorset across green infrastructure and care work in the next two years, rising to more than 27,000 over 10 years.   The data, compiled by Green New Deal UK, shows that Dorset is likely to suffer over 26,000 permanent...
Chapel Gate Incinerator poses pollution and heavy vehicle traffic threat to Green Belt and nearby University Sports Facilities A planning application going through final stages today to build a waste incinerator at Parley, next to the University's Chapel Gate sports fields and facilities.  This is located near Bournemouth Airport in...
Many of us spend time carefully sorting our recycling. But what actually happens to the plastic waste we put out for collection? The UK produces more plastic waste per person than almost any other country in the world, and many of us spend time carefully sorting our recycling. But what...
Back in the 1880s, the mathematician and theologian Edwin Abbott tried to help us better understand our world by describing a very different one he called Flatland. Imagine a world that is not a sphere moving through space like our own planet, but more like a vast sheet of paper...
New YouGov polling, commissioned by Greenpeace UK, can today reveal that 71% of UK adults believe bottom trawling should not be taking place in UK MPAs UK ‘marine protected areas’ (MPAs) in continental shelf waters store approximately 26.5 million tonnes of carbon, according to Marine Conservation Society data, making them...
1. It was hot when it was young The most widely accepted cosmological model is that of the Big Bang. This was proven since the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation or CMBR. Although, strictly speaking, no one knows exactly what ‘banged’, we know from extrapolation that the Universe...
The complete version of Abby Martin's three-part series covering Chevron's disaster in Ecuador, on teleSUR's The Empire Files. Abby launches a deep investigation into Chevron Texaco's intentional spilling of 19 billion gallons of oil and waste in Ecuador's pristine Amazon rainforest--and the 25-year-long legal battle that followed. Featuring interviews...
Across the UK, incinerators are being given the green light by councils. With low-income and minority communities disproportionately bearing the brunt of the pollution coming from these wood and waste-burning plants, Shaista Hussain looks at one city’s battle to protect local people from a new incinerator.  What's an incinerator? An incinerator...