Government awards funding to plant 680,000 trees

Successful projects will share £9 million for the development of new urban green spaces

$100m to clean up coal in China

The World Bank has offered help to clean up some of China’s old mines. It has pledged $100 million (£64m) to clean up coal from an old mining area in Huainan Municipality in western China.The area has suffered from subsidence and environmental damage, the money will be used to clean it up and turn it […]

UK’s first combined solar and wind park launches

Green energy supplier, Ecotricity, have completed the construction of the UK’s first major solar park which is the first project in the UK to capture the power of both the sun and the wind in one location. The 1MW solar park will generate enough electricity for 300 homes for the next 25 years. The PV […]