April 7, 2021

Lots of sunshine and wind on Easter Monday, coupled with a lower demand for energy meant that nearly 80% of Britain's power was being supplied by zero carbon energy.

March 26, 2021

YPTE’s brand new podcast is now available from all the places you can listen to podcasts.

March 23, 2021

Supermarket Waitrose will no longer sell magazines for children that have cheap plastic toys on their covers. The move comes in response to a campaign started by Skye, a ten year-old girl from Wales.

March 11, 2021

New rules that are being introduced this summer should mean that fridges, washing machines, TVs and other home appliances should last longer and cost less to run. Ministers are implementing new rules from the EU, which are aiming to reduce the need for new raw materials whilst saving energy and saving consumers’ money.

January 21, 2021

Joe Biden, the newly-inaugurated 46th President of the United States yesterday signed an executive order for the US to rejoin the Paris climate agreement. The action comes after former President Donald Trump withdrew America from the Paris agreement last year.

December 9, 2020

The UK government’s official advisers on climate change, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) have released a new report, which sees the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2035 reducing by 78% when compared with 1990 levels. This new target vastly surpasses the carbon budget set in 2018, accelerating the path to net zero by 15 years, which the CCC said reflected recent rapid falls in renewable energy costs.

December 7, 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week announced that the UK will aim to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% of what they were in 1990 by the year 2030.

December 3, 2020

On 1 December 2020, a group of 330 young people from 140 countries sent an open letter calling on world leaders to implement a set of realistic, yet progressive, youth-centred climate policies. Delegates at Mock COP26, an international climate conference led by young people, presented their draft Treaty to Nigel Topping, the High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26.

November 30, 2020

Beavers that were released onto the Holnicote Estate on Exmoor in January of 2020 have built their first dam. It's also the first beaver dam to have been built on Exmoor for at least 400 years!

November 24, 2020

The United Nations' World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has this week released the WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, a report, which shows that levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere have continued to increase, despite the shutdown of travel and industry in many parts of the world as a result of Covid-19 lockdowns.