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'Daylight robbery': Fury as water bills to rise by £31 per year over next five years
homeless heatwave
Water bills

'Daylight robbery': Fury as water bills to rise by £31 per year over next five years

Letters: Yes, it was really easy being a Boomer... How Gen Z must envy us!
Letters

Letters: Yes, it was really easy being a Boomer... How Gen Z must envy us!

'Complete disaster': Outrage as Thames Water reports huge spike in sewage spills… again
Thames Water

'Complete disaster': Outrage as Thames Water reports huge spike in sewage spills… again

From the NHS to 'spreading opportunity': Here's what should be in Keir Starmer's 'plan for change'
Plan for change

From the NHS to 'spreading opportunity': Here's what should be in Keir Starmer's 'plan for change'

'We'll have to get more militant': The real winners and losers from the farm inheritance tax debate
a tractor in a field
Farming

'We'll have to get more militant': The real winners and losers from the farm inheritance tax debate

Keir Starmer's COP 29 climate goals 'encouraging' – but 'serious action' needed now, experts say 
Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends COP29 in Azerbaijan
COP29

Keir Starmer's COP 29 climate goals 'encouraging' – but 'serious action' needed now, experts say 

Where has all the fog gone?
Nature

Where has all the fog gone?

'We're not diesel monsters': Meet the London cabbies going electric to help fight climate change
Climate change

'We're not diesel monsters': Meet the London cabbies going electric to help fight climate change

Water companies' £158m fine over sewage pollution prompts fresh calls for nationalisation
A dripping tap against dappled sunlight
Sewage pollution

Water companies' £158m fine over sewage pollution prompts fresh calls for nationalisation

Sewage pollution levels in this river are 100 times safe 'limits'. The fight is now on to clean it up
Sewage pollution

Sewage pollution levels in this river are 100 times safe 'limits'. The fight is now on to clean it up

Why I switched sides to stop UK's first deep coal mine in more than 30 years from opening
Members of South Lakes Action on Climate Change celebrate preventing a coal mine in Cumbria
Maggie Mason

Why I switched sides to stop UK's first deep coal mine in more than 30 years from opening

Weather forecasts are more important than ever. Here's the science behind them
Michael Fish illustration
Weather

Weather forecasts are more important than ever. Here's the science behind them

UK inflation holds at 2.2% – but it's still a bleak picture for poorer people and benefit claimants
keir starmer
Cost of living crisis

UK inflation holds at 2.2% – but it's still a bleak picture for poorer people and benefit claimants

Designer and activist Katharine Hamnett on fast fashion, the planet and photobombing Thatcher
katherine hamnett
Second hand September

Designer and activist Katharine Hamnett on fast fashion, the planet and photobombing Thatcher

UK won't reach net zero without carbon capture – so why do we keep 'screwing it up'?
carbon capture
Net zero

UK won't reach net zero without carbon capture – so why do we keep 'screwing it up'?

This mum used to watch her son 'struggle for breath'. After a year of Ulez, things are much better
ULEZ

This mum used to watch her son 'struggle for breath'. After a year of Ulez, things are much better

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
No, Extinction Rebellion are not 'storming' Windsor Castle. Here's what we're doing instead
Marijn van de Geer

No, Extinction Rebellion are not 'storming' Windsor Castle. Here's what we're doing instead

Labour giving green light to London City airport expansion 'a sign of things to come', campaigners warn
Climate crisis

Labour giving green light to London City airport expansion 'a sign of things to come', campaigners warn

Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo on a life under threat and people's ignorance to the rainforest
Nemonte Nenquimo

Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo on a life under threat and people's ignorance to the rainforest

Behind the secret birth of London's first baby beavers in 400 years – and what it means
A baby beaver swimming in the water
Rewilding

Behind the secret birth of London's first baby beavers in 400 years – and what it means

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