LETTER: In defence of LTNs – a filter is not a car ban
Low traffic neighbourhoods are under attack. But really, car drivers have little to worry about – ...
Tag: Pollution
After flaming June: a warning from the world’s wildlife
The June heatwave should remind us of the vulnerability of wildlife to climate change – and ...
The ‘evil plot’ to give people cleaner air and safer streets
Moves to create low traffic neighbourhoods are gaining traction in London, parts of Sussex and beyond. ...
The retained EU law bill: a threat to environmental protection in the UK
Many argue the Retained EU Law Bill will result in chaos. It also poses huge threats ...
Here’s a good story… how people power can save the planet
Inspiring people through fiction is the first step to taking climate action. The next is citizens' ...
Lewes leads the way on rights of rivers
Lewes District Council is the first to move towards a Rights of River Declaration, to give ...
To clean up England’s rivers we need to know how much sewage is dumped – but water firms won’t tell us
To clean up England’s rivers we need to know how much sewage is dumped – but ...
Is it time to put those fires out?
Wood burners are increasingly popular, but can give rise to asthma and respiratory problems, recent research ...
Time to ditch the flight? How Europe is opening up rail travel
New faster/cheaper rail links to everywhere in Europe are making train travel a more environmentally friendly ...
Every drop you taint, we’ll be watching you
Water companies are in the spotlight like never before thanks to public protests and campaigners like ...
Truss abandons the environment in post-Brexit Britain
Brexiteers promised a 'bonfire of Brussels red-tape', but Truss's new government has announced plans to revoke ...
Pollution of Sussex seas: how local councillors see it
Indefensible releases of sewage with harmful bacteria and other pollutants into this environment is unacceptable in ...
Tories finally act on sewage crisis… but it looks like too little, too late
The Government's new plans for tackling the UK sewage crisis won't deliver the radical change needed
Southern Water and the Great Sewage Scandal
In the latest of our articles on the pollution of our rivers and beaches, Ginny Smith ...
In polluted Sussex, one trout stream’s survival is on a knife edge
Sussex by the Sewage: our rivers and streams are at pollution crisis point. Rivers and streams ...
As Sussex dries up, beavers make a splash
There is a glimmer of hope in the Sussex countryside in the face of drought and ...
Hey, SUV monsters – get off our roads!
SUVs are a menace on urban streets, argues Ross McNally, both polluting and a threat to ...
Repairing, restoring and reusing in mid-Sussex repair cafés
Local repair cafés: a growing phenomenon and long overdue. Their future seems bright. Let's give them our ...
Our bathing waters are OK? Wrong, Sally Ann Hart MP
After a damning report by MPs on polluted waterways – still no effective action from government
The sewage cesspit that engulfed Johnson and No10: a timeline of events
Is the government's action on sewage window dressing... like a new Southern Water call for 'pollution ...
Climate change? There’s a ‘them and us’ gulf at COP26
Day 2 at COP26 and there's passion on the streets, but things look very different from ...
For the birds: Brexit’s latest shock, a toxic threat to our water system
New threats to our water systems due to Brexit were foreseen by the government's own Operation ...
Profits from pollution: how private monopoly Southern Water is failing the public
Sewage discharges into Sussex seas and rivers by Southern Water is prompting protests and demands for ...
Beautiful but deadly: the pollution of Sussex rivers
Raw sewage from Southern Water treatment works is flowing into our rivers and streams. The second ...
Destroy these outdated A27 plans, NOT the South Downs
Former Lewes MP Norman Baker pulls apart the ongoing proposals to build a new motorway right ...
Warning: Sussex seas may damage your health
Raw sewage is being pumped into our seas at an alarming rate. We talk to swimmers ...
Storks versus bulldozers: saving Sussex wildlife areas
Sussex campaigners are urging the government to intervene to save wildlife rather than allow a massive ...
Eco anxiety is real: but here are six steps you can take this week to tackle the climate crisis
Eco anxiety is real and defined as "a chronic fear of environmental doom". Here are six ...
Code Six: the “new” standard for a zero carbon house is actually an ancient concept
The basic aim of this Code was to produce a dwelling built in an eco-friendly way ...
Let us pray, prime minister
This government’s ridiculous attempt to criminalise a movement that sees the planet as sacred’
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