Danish company Ørsted cancels big UK windfarm project
The fourth stage of a project at Hornsea windfarm in Yorkshire has been cancelled. The intention was to build enough wind turbines to power 1 million homes in the UK. Ørsted, the world’s biggest wind power developer, has cancelled plans for project Hornsea 4. Based in Yorkshire, Hornsea 4...
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Half of first-time property buyers need help from parents
According to estate agency Savills, more than half of all UK first-time buyers received help from their families to purchase a property in 2024. While lower than the previous year, this number is still higher than every other year since 2013. Estate agency Savills has said that over half of...
US firm DoorDash to buy UK’s Deliveroo for £2.9 billion
The food giant DoorDash is set to purchase Deliveroo for £2.9 billion. The two companies together will be operating in over 40 countries and serving 50 million customers each month. The UK’s Deliveroo is to be purchased by the US food company DoorDash. The new deal is valued at...
Scotland to scrap new law that would criminalise misogyny
The Scottish government has said it will no longer be moving forward with a policy that would criminalise misogyny. Instead, it will be amending existing hate crime legislation. A bill that was poised to reinforce and improve protection for woman and girls in Scotland has been scrapped ahead of...
UK fruit and veg growing early thanks to climate change
Warmer weather than usual means that the UK has grown strawberries, aubergines and tomatoes weeks earlier than expected. It could be a sign of things to come in the next few decades. The climate crisis is changing our relationship with fruit and vegetables, altering our calendar schedules and making it...
FA to ban transgender women from football
The Football Association (FA) has announced that transgender women will be banned from playing in women’s football from 1 June. It is a response to the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that the term ‘women’ only refers to biological women. The FA has announced that transgender women will...
Overwhelming majority reportedly want more climate change action
New research suggests that vast majority of the world’s population wants stronger action to fight climate change, with 89% agreeing that not enough is being done. However, most believe they’re in the minority, leading to what experts call a ‘spiral of silence.’ If you feel like not enough is being done to tackle climate change, you’re not alone. New research has found that an overwhelming majority of the world feels like...
The unholy trinity of apartheid, genocide, and ecocide in Palestine
More than 550 days since the latest round of conflict between Israel and Gaza erupted, the scale of destruction and devastation on both a human and environmental level is almost unimaginable. Journalist and author Matt Kennard has described the ongoing genocide in Gaza as a tripartition between the United States, Britain, and, of course, Israel. America has provided the majority of arms (80%) to Israel since October 2023. Meanwhile, Britain’s ongoing...
Regular people likely to be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C
A new study has found that economic models have underestimated how global warming will affect the public’s wealth, with new calculations suggesting the average person will be 40% poorer. It looks like our current predictions for global warming have underestimated how badly it will affect our personal finances. A new study by Australian scientists, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters this week, suggests that global GDP per person will...
Just Stop Oil to cease direct-action protests from April
The controversial climate protest group has announced it will be changing tactics starting from this April. It will no longer be engaging in disruption protests after UK government met its initial demands. Just Stop Oil is to halt all direct-action protests from April, it has announced. The group has been in operation for three years, with over 3,300 arrests made and 180 imprisonments. You’ll have likely seen the headlines; breaking...
