Nicotine patches are to be tested on coronavirus patients and healthcare workers treating infected people after initial studies suggested smokers were less likely to catch the disease.
Researchers in France say early data indicates those who smoke make up a disproportionately small number of people in hospital with COVID-19.
A study at...
With household recycling centres currently closed and new Garden Waste subscriptions temporarily suspended, why not start home composting your garden waste?
it's easy to get started!it's good for your garden - digging compost into your soil improves on its texture and nutritional quality, which in turn produces healthier plantsit's good for the...
Garden Waste customers have reason to be pleased as Dorset Council will be resuming its garden waste kerbside collections from Monday 27 April.
To ensure that regular food waste, rubbish, recycling and glass collections continue with minimal disruption, the Garden Waste service was suspended shortly after Public Health England coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance was...
As we approach the anniversary of Dorset Council declaring a climate and ecological emergency on 16 May 2019, Extinction Rebellion Dorset have written to them asking where their promised strategy and action plan are.
The letter was sent on 15 April 2020 to Cllr Ray Bryan, who chairs their Climate...
Sometimes it takes a threat to our own neighbourhood, our own county or country, before we wake up to what is happening across the world. It will take food shortages before we accept that industrial farming is gradually killing the soil that all life, bar marine life, depends on. ...
Dorset Council’s Executive Advisory Panel for Climate Change recently hosted two Inquiry Day sessions where organisations and members of the public were invited to present their ideas for how the Council can help tackle climate change.
Back in December 2019, the Council launched its Call for Ideas, inviting people to submit...
A joint bid by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP Council) and Dorset Council, has been awarded £79 million by the Department for Transport’s Transforming Cities Fund (TCF).
The funding gives the green light for the largest sustainable travel programme of change to transport infrastructure ever seen in the area, helping...
Neither the EU or the UK can afford a fishing war. If the Uk deny the EU access to their waters then the EU will simply shut down the UK's access to the European markets.
With the United Kingdom exporting 75 percent of its fishing production to the European Union...
Climate targets seem sensible, but are actually impeding effective action. Let’s do something completely different.
The crisis is not imminent. The crisis is here. The recent infernos in Australia, the storms and floods in Brazil, Madagascar, Spain and the US, the economic collapse in Somalia, caused in part by a devastating cycle of droughts and floods,...
Late last month, Dorset Council’s Climate and Ecological Emergency Executive Advisory Panel convened to hear about the continued progress being made by the authority in its work to tackle climate change.
First order of business was to discuss the motions put forward by Cllr Daryl Turner and Cllr Kelvin Clayton...
