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Italy must step up efforts to contain a bacterial disease blighting olive trees in the southern province of Lecce, the European Commission has warned.

The Xylella fastidiosa bacteria also threatens citrus fruit and vineyards.

The Commission says at l

Mosquitoes could bring diseases such as dengue fever and West Nile virus to the UK within the next few decades, experts are warning.

Writing in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, they said warmer UK temperatures could make conditions favourable

We’ve launched an ambitious plan to nurse the natural environment back to health and reverse the alarming decline in wildlife. Our strategy for the next decade will also see us invest in looking after the nation’s heritage.

Recognising threats to nat

The institution known as Kew Gardens is no stranger to enforced, cataclysmic change. In the early hours of October 16 1987 the Great Storm that blew through the south of England uprooted more than 700 trees at the Royal Botanic Gardens – and taught a

The Mental Health Foundation is carrying out a research project commissioned by Natural England’s Outdoors for All programme, which is asking people who are living with ‪‎dementia‬ and their ‪‎carers‬ about their activity and engagement with ‪nature

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Already known for professional sprayer quality the manufacturers of Hardi and Berthoud have now added a ‘comfort’ knapsack to their Cooper Pegler range, called the Evolution, in both a 15 & 20lt size.  

It combines the rugged reliabi

A stunning memorial has recently been unveiled in the North sea-port town of Hartlepool to mark 100 years since the town was bombarded by German warships in World War One. Tobermore are very proud to be involved in this moving tribute to those who lo

Trimax has announced that two of its popular rotary mowers - the Pegasus and the Procut, will now come complete with reduced maintenance spindles.

Somewhat of an operator’s dream, the new spindles offer extremely low maintenance and remove the tedious

Builders’ merchant Travis Perkins is to create 4,000 jobs – nearly three jobs a day – and 400 new branches across the country over the next four years. The majority of the jobs will be outside London and the south east.

There will be a mix of 170 app

Conservation covenants could allow landowners to protect their environment in perpetuity says Andrew Sells, Chairman of Natural England.

The importance of this country’s treasured landscapes to our economy, our health and our sense of identity is pe

Visitors to a County Durham park are being asked not to smoke when in or near the children's play area.

The outdoor play area at Riverside Park, in Chester-le-Street, is the first of 178 owned by Durham County Council to become a smoke-free zone.

The

Every build has its own challenges, but adding fencing and drainage as well as furniture to an active and sensitive hospital ward was certainly an unusual one. Over 10 weeks, the Ground Control team excavated the exterior, added drainage, planted hed

The first cross-sector action plan, designed to increase growth and competitiveness for the ornamental horticulture industry, has been created by leaders from across the sector.

The plan, to be launched at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May, addresse

Following tell-tale signs of sand contamination, the De Vere Carden Park Golf Resort near Chester, has recently called upon the services of leading natural sportsturf contractor Souters Sports to carry out wholesale bunker rejuvenations.

The Carden Pa

An array of Dennis and SISIS sports turf maintenance equipment will be on display at Campey Turf Care Systems’ forthcoming Sports Turf Maintenance Machinery Demonstration Days.

Dennis and SISIS dealer, Campey Turf Care Systems, are hosting three demon

An ecology consultancy has been fined for safety failings after an employee broke her back in a fall at a former psychiatric hospital site in Essex.

The 34-year-old ecologist, who doesn’t wish to be named, was surveying the loft space for wildlife in

The first truffle to have been cultivated on UK soil has been harvested from a field in Leicestershire, according to a plant biologist.

Dr Paul Thomas planted the fungus on 20 farms and estates around Britain six years ago.

He found the 39g specimen