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Sophie Perry The Warming, by Stanley Johnson - Credit: Edwin Smet & Author/PA What if Captain Scott unknowingly discovered a mineral that could solve climate change? Thats the premise of the latest novel by Boris Johnsons father, Stanley. The book is billed as a "pulse-pounding adventure" which bolts between the South American jungle, Amsterdam, the Falkland Islands and Antarctica.  The Warming follows journalist Charles Hodson who is on the trail of his missing brother in the Brazilian rainf...

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More than two dozen Conservative MPs have committed to championing green policies and solutions that will help the UK meet its net-zero target in Parliament, amid concerns that major policy gaps remain.

Its sheer madness to import coal essential for our steel industry Dominic Lawson for the Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Political civil war has broken out in the Johnson family — and not for the first time. The Prime Ministers father, 80-year-old Stanley, has denounced the Governments decision not to block the construction of Woodhouse Colliery, Britains first new deep coal mine in over 30 years. Last week, Johnson Sr pronounced this to be a massive mis...

Date Time Latin American, Caribbean ministers commit to build back better and greener Bridgetown Barbados, February 2, 2021 – The Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean today signed the Barbados Declaration, in which they called for the integration of environmental issues to be placed at the heart of the region’s COVID-19 recovery strategies, with economic reactivation based on social inclusion, low carbon and resilient economies, and the conservation and sustainabl...

Boris Johnsons father Stanley has landed a new environmental job in which he will attend the United Nations COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, putting pressure on the Prime Minister.

To have any climate credibility, Britain must cancel its new coal mine The UK is still failing to demonstrate the environmental leadership needed ahead of this year’s COP summit. Boris Johnson and David Attenborough at an event to launch COP26 Hot, dark, cramped tunnels where the threat of collapse was ever-present. Such were the conditions faced for centuries by the UK’s deep-pit miners. And nor – after recent events in British climate politics – is it an inappropriate descriptio...

Recognised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as a world-leader in microplastics research, University of Newcastle's Dr Thava Palanisami...

Tides of change: how the UK can harness marine power Investing in wave energy can create green jobs and lower emissions Philip Payne/Zuma Press/PA Images The environment has shot up the domestic and global agenda. This is good news for MPs like myself, who are part of the Conservative Environment Network, and renewed emphasis on a greener Britain should stimulate local constituency efforts—in Gloucester, for example, we have ambitious ideas for a Green Energy Park to generate significant sol...