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Available for 28 daysA small but mighty problem: what to do with the radioactive waste we have already made? Professor Clare Corkhill from the University of Bristol gives us ...

Baroness Sheehan, who is due to raise the issue in a Lords debate on Thursday, called for the report into the 21,000-tonne site to be made public, telling the ...

John Scanlon, chair of the Environmental Services Association, said: "We've seen a shift from people using small canisters to much larger ones holding 600, 700g of nitrous oxide, which ...

Malcolm Prior,rural affairs producerandJenny Kumah,rural affairs correspondentWATCH: Drone footage shows the scale of the illegal waste dump in Over, GloucestershireHundreds of illegal dumps are operating across England, including at ...

Zoe CorbynTechnology Reporter, San FranciscoGetty ImagesE. coli has been used in many discoveries in genetics and molecular biologyEarlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste plastic made ...

MaryLou CostaTechnology ReporterReporting fromVilnius, LithuaniaEnergesmanFly larvae are excellent at converting food waste into proteinMost people are inclined to shoo flies away from food, and the thought of maggots in ...

Anna Meisel & Paul KenyonBBC File On 4 InvestigatesGetty ImagesThe Environment Agency (EA) has launched a comprehensive review into shipments of waste tyres from the UK to India.Last week, ...

A food waste charity is expanding its "pay-as-you-can basis" meal services to cover an extra day per week.Waste into Wellbeing, which repurposes surplus food in Kendal, Cumbria, will now ...

It is a "ridiculous waste of taxpayers' money" to pay for police officers who cannot be sacked to sit at home, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said.The ...

Kevin KeaneBBC Scotland's environment correspondentBBCThe banks of Loch Long at Arrochar are strewn with plastics from the River ClydeAt the head of beautiful Loch Long in Argyll sits one ...

Kevin Church/BBCA repeating tone - blip, blip, blip - is the audible reminder that we are in one of the most hazardous nuclear sites in the world: Sellafield.That sound ...