Christopher CherryLast modified on Thu 20 Jun 2019 10.43 BST Most UK cities have had illegally polluted air for nearly a decade, and the effect of air pollution is particularly bad on children. Ahead of Clean Air Day, we conducted an experiment to assess the air quality on a school run in central London, using […]

Thu 20 Jun 2019 What is the best way of wrecking a city? Pour cars into it. Heavy traffic, 50 years of research shows, breaks up communities, disrupts social life and crushes local cultures. Noise drowns out conversation and drives people indoors. Pollution makes streets inhospitable. Cars take up the space that might have been

Hayley Everett19 June, 2019 Transport for London (TfL) has announced construction work on a new segregated cycle route in south-east London will begin on 5th July. Cycleway 4, which will run between Tower Bridge and Greenwich, will include a segregated cycling lane and new pedestrian crossings in a bid to make cycling and walking safer

Bill Laurance December 18, 2016 7.01pm GMT If you asked a friend to name the worst human threat to nature, what would they say? Global warming? Overhunting? Habitat fragmentation? A new study suggests it is in fact road-building. “Road-building” might sound innocuous, like “house maintenance” – or even positive, conjuring images of promoting economic growth.

Last modified on Thu 20 Jun 2019 The strategy unveiled this week by the airport is monstrous – and the former London mayor has gone quiet about opposing it This week Heathrow came up with its latest plan for a third runway. It is a plan so monstrous, so expensive, so disruptive and so archaic

Joshua S Hill March 22nd, 2019 by A new report published this week shows that 33 global banks provided $1.9 trillion to fossil fuel companies since the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement at the end of 2015 and that the amount of fossil fuel financing has increased in each of the past two years.

Sunday 29 May 2016 12:30 Britain is the most corrupt country in the world, according to journalist Roberto Saviano, who spent more than a decade exposing the criminal dealings of the Italian Mafia. Mr Saviano, who wrote the best-selling exposés Gomorrah and ZeroZeroZero, made the comments at the Hay Literary Festival. The 36-year-old has been

Chris Mills Rodrigo06/20/19 05:06 PM EDT Protecting U.S. coastlines from rising sea levels could cost an estimated $400 billion over the next 20 years, according to a study published Thursday. The report by Resilient Analytics and the Center for Climate Integrity estimates that more than 50,000 miles of coastal barriers, or sea walls to mitigate

June 21, 2019 2.29pm BST Climate breakdown, mass extinctions, and extreme inequality threaten the earth’s rich tapestry of life and leave our own fate increasingly uncertain. At a time of such social, political and ecological upheaval, it’s natural to dream of a utopian world in which these problems are no more – in fact, people

Leading neurosurgeon tells the Hay Festival cycling helmets are ‘too flimsy’ to be beneficial A leading neurosurgeon has controversially claimed that cyclists who wear helmets are wasting their time. Henry Marsh, who works at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London, said that many of his patients who have been involved in bike accidents have been