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The areas of vegetation growing alongside the transport network, known as “green corridors”, are to be enhanced as part of a £3 million pilot project drawing together Natural England, the Highways Agency, Network Rail and Nature Improvement Area (NIA

The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year. It occurs when the sun's daily maximum height in the sky is at its lowest, and the North Pole is tilted furthest away from the sun. This results in the least number of daylight hours and the longes

Further Council cuts will severely damage many parks says the Parks Alliance.

“Yesterday’s announcement of further Council cuts will severely damage the quality of public parks across England and Wales” says Mark Camley, Chair of The Parks Alliance,

Folkestone’s Triennial Festival this year had an exciting addition; the opening ceremony for Payers Park, a £1.35m development recently completed by Ground Control.

The 30 week design and build included piling works, in-situ concrete walls and struc

Infrasound may have alerted warblers to the massive storm, prompting them to fly more than a thousand kilometres to avoid it.

A group of songbirds may have avoided a devastating storm by fleeing their US breeding grounds after detecting telltale infr

Black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) contains a “bliss molecule” similar to the substance that gives cannabis its psychoactive properties.

"Maccarrone believes truffles use it to attract animals to eat their fruiting bodies, so that their spores are sp

Based within Weston Business Quarter, 'The Hive' is an exciting new business enterprise hub which aims to provide the best resources for business advice and support. The purpose of this new initiative is to help local businesses thrive and grow and b

The co-owner of a sporting and farming estate in the North Yorkshire national park has been prosecuted after a 79-year-old occasional worker died in an overturned all-terrain vehicle on remote moorland.

Retired businessman James Gaffney was driving t

The Eden Project has announced that it will offer degree courses for the first time delivered in partnership with the Cornwall College Group and awarded by Plymouth University.

From September 2015, students on a range of courses including horticultur

The world's oldest water, which is locked deep within the Earth's crust, is present at a far greater volume than was thought, scientists report.

The liquid, some of which is billions of years old, is found many kilometres beneath the ground.

Research

A Kent firm that makes safety surfaces for playgrounds has been fined after it failed to heed warnings from safety experts to properly guard dangerous machinery.

Sittingbourne-based Island Leisure Products Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety

UK unemployment in the three months to October fell by 63,000 to 1.96 million, official figures show.

The fall was the slowest quarterly fall for a year, leading some analysts to speculate that the rate of improvement may have peaked.

The Office for

The European Commission's proposal for a plant reproductive material law, also known as the 'seed regulation', has been withdrawn.

The proposals had been voted down by the European Parliament earlier this year, but it is now on a list of projects (No

This year is on track to be the warmest ever recorded in Europe, and greenhouse gas emissions played a major role, according to new research. Scientists have analysed centuries of temperature records to conclude that this year’s warmth was made at le