To slow climate change and restore dwindling wildlife populations, the UK government aims to plant enough trees to expand the country's woodland cover from 13% to 20% by 2050. Creating healthy woodlands on this scale is an ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 7, 2022
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The UK's growing mismatch between the fish we catch and the fish we want to eat has clear implications for our future food security, according to new research.
Ecology
Jun 1, 2023
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The deterioration of the UK's natural environment could lead to an estimated 12% loss to GDP, according to new analysis. In comparison, the financial crisis of 2008 took around 5% off the value of the UK GDP, while the COVID-19 ...
Economics & Business
Apr 25, 2024
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The UK government said on Wednesday it had dropped its plan to start selling in imperial measures after a consultation revealed 99 percent support for keeping the metric system.
Other
Dec 27, 2023
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The measurement by which the UK Government attaches a monetary value to saving a human life is invalid and should be overhauled, according to Professor of Risk Management at the University of Bristol, Philip Thomas.
Social Sciences
Oct 1, 2019
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England will ban a wide range of single-use plastic items from October including plates and cutlery in order to limit their "devastating" effect on the environment, the government said Saturday.
Environment
Jan 14, 2023
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The UK's supply of fruit and vegetables has become increasingly reliant on imports from countries vulnerable to climate change, according to a new study in Nature Food.
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2020
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Climate change is a global phenomenon and can often appear to be a bigger issue in places where it is already very hot and humid. But what will the climate crisis mean for the relatively mild UK? To find out, we reconstructed ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 10, 2022
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In the first three weeks after the UK government introduced the 'lockdown', an estimated 7 million households—a quarter of all households in the UK—had lost either a substantial part or all of their earned income as a ...
Social Sciences
May 1, 2020
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The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) DARE UK (Data and Analytics Research Environments UK) program has today published the findings of a UK-wide public dialogue exploring views towards data research practices, and where ...
Social Sciences
May 5, 2022
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