Celebrating International Women’s Day
Today, on International Women’s Day, senior women from across Defra Group have set out why female leadership on climate change is so important.
Today, on International Women’s Day, senior women from across Defra Group have set out why female leadership on climate change is so important.
Today we look at the news that the emergency authorisation of a neonicotinoid pesticide treatment on this year’s sugar beet seed will not be used.
On todays blog, we take a look coverage of the State of Nature campaign to reverse nature’s decline by 2030
There has been media coverage today of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on flooding in the Telegraph, i News and Yorkshire Post. The Committee of MPs made the recommendation that house builders should bear the costs of paying to …
A vessel manned by Greenpeace has dropped a number of boulders in the UK’s exclusive economic zone. The activity is being investigated by the Marine Management Organisation.
The number of fixed penalty notices issued for fly-tipping have increased by 32% since 2016, with prosecutions more than doubling over the same period.
In today’s blog we look at our announcement of an expanded Seafood Response Fund for the UK’s seafood and aquaculture sectors.
There has been widespread coverage today about data published on Friday 12 February on emissions of air pollutants in the UK.
Two separate reports have been published today on air quality.
There has been a significant amount of press interest in, with some eye-catching headlines suggesting that 15m bees could be burnt under new Brexit import rules, with the story picked up in the Telegraph, Guardian, Times, Independent and Mail.
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