Brussels – Major concessions to polluting industries under new EU sustainable finance rules, leaked on Monday by Contexte, would stab the EU green deal in the heart, said Greenpeace.
After months of intense lobbying in Brussels, a host of industries – from gas to bioenergy, to aviation and nuclear power – are poised...
Penises are shrinking and genitals becoming malformed because of pollution, an environmental scientist has warned in a new book detailing the challenges facing human reproduction.
Dr Shanna Swan writes that humanity is facing an "existential crisis" in fertility rates as a result of phthalates, a chemical used when manufacturing plastics...
Following much conjecture which included one theory that aliens had landed, the mystery of the sonic boom that could be heard over much of Dorset on Saturday looks like it has been solved.
It transpires that the sound came from a 'fireball meteor'.
https://twitter.com/simon_sat/status/1373374924597891075?s=20
It was heard in Dorchester and Weymouth amongst...
BCP’s environmental groups in BCP- CAN (Climate Action Network) have joined forces with businesses and other community groups, as well as more than 75 academics, health professionals, community leaders, business leads and private individuals, writing an Open Letter to BCP Council urging them to "act in a manner befitting...
Councillors and officers are working hard on how they intend to update and upgrade Dorset Council’s properties using £19 million of grant funding, awarded by the government to help to tackle the Climate and Ecological Emergency.
This programme of work will be a major step in the Council’s ambition to...
Following on from
https://dorseteye.com/peoples-assemblies-on-the-dorset-local-plan-consultation/
Another on Saturday 6th March 2-4pm
The Dorset Local Plan is out for public consultation and ends on 15 March 2021. The Plan will last at least until 2038, so will shape all development for the next 17 years – that’s a long time. Anything built in that time will leave a...
The art installations were placed by activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR) to highlight the devastating effects of toxic air pollution. A sign inside the buggy reads “more than 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air every day”, a statistic published by the World Health Organisation in 2018. The...
Weymouth Town Council has approved a business plan outlining how the Tumbledown project will transform a site in Weymouth to create a sustainable and inclusive community asset.
At the latest Full Town Council Committee meeting, members discussed and agreeddetails for the Tumbledown project. The project aims to bring the land back in to use in a sustainable way that will hugely benefit the local community.
Weymouth Town Council has partnered with Weymouth Area Development Trust(WADT) to develop...
Rishi Sunak has today made a highly anticipated and important change to the Bank of England’s mandate, for the first time instructing the UK’s central bank to align its powerful monetary policy toolkit with the government’s net zero target
In his Budget speech, Sunak announced a new mandate for the...
Today's handsets are capable of carrying out various tasks using integrated intelligent technology and they also hold the capacity to incorporate new software and technologies like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. As people become accustomed to new devices, will we see a rise in smart glasses?
