Your latest environmental news as heard on Your Green Breakfast with Xan Phillips

Friday 9th April

Study re-evaluates long-term burial rates of carbon in Irish Sea sediments

U.S. Forest Service reorganization prompts concerns of further employee loss, impacts ahead of fire season

Latest Forecasts Show a Super El Niño Event Developing, Bringing a Global Weather Disruption in 2026/2027

Hydrogen cooking stove runs for hours using only 100 ml water and 1 kWh power

Wednesday 8th April

Final phase of £10m Southern Water works under way

Paultons Park praised for green energy programme

BP shareholders advised to vote against chair over climate resolution exclusion

Tuesday 7th April

Dog owners to be fined if they don't pick up mess in Fareham

Boomtown Festival urine to fertilise trees in national park

Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers

Easter Monday

Southern Water business grant open for applications

From early birds to emerging butterflies: UK shows signs of earliest spring on record

Germany to turn 220,000 tons of discarded window glass into new panes each year

Good Friday 3rd April

Test Valley council thanks conservation volunteers at event

Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city

Solar saved Europe €3bn in fossil fuel imports in March: Which country is leading the way?

Thursday April 2nd

Sycamore Gap tree sapling planted in the New Forest

‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists

The huge task of rewiring Britain's electricity grid from top to bottom

Wednesday April 1st

'God squad' waives animal protections to expand oil drilling

World’s largest wind farm moves forward towards lighting up 3.3 million homes

China saw it coming and the market is starting to believe it

Tuesday March 31st

New Forest visitors reminded of important wildlife rules

Wind power hits new record as gas squeezed to tiny share of generation

Global Shift To Plant-Based Diets Could Revolutionize Farming And Reduce Labor

Monday March 30th

Call out to volunteers to take part in bug survey

Toxic Pfas residue identified on 37% of California produce, new analysis finds

‘Visible from space’: why Spain has the world’s biggest concentration of greenhouses

Friday March 27th 2026

Northam Rail Bridge Replacement A Priority

Sewage released into England’s rivers and seas nearly 300,000 times last year

Climate change is altering Saharan dust – and Europe is downwind

Thursday March 26th 2026

Wednesday 25th March 2026

Only 13 countries in the world breathe safe air. Three of them are in Europe

Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds

Lidl to sell plug-in solar panels in government push to cut energy bills

Tuesday 24th March 2026

Hampshire County Council releases first Biodiversity Report

The Great March Reversal: Deep Trough to Unleash an Arctic Polar Plunge and Late-Season Snow Across Europe

Ghostly Sculpture Floats Above Earth in Stunning Art Project

Monday 23rd  March 2026

Southampton misses out on share of £1.4b flood defence funds

UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms

Documentary 'Jo in the Water' to debut at Winchester ARC

UK homeowners to be allowed wind turbines in gardens amid energy crisis

Friday March 20th 2026

Silverlake expansion plans thrown out over 'harm' to countryside

UK to cut climate aid to developing countries by 14% to £2bn a year in ‘refocus’

World’s first quantum battery prototype built, charges faster as it gets larger

Thursday March 19th 2026

Southampton council launching electrical recycling scheme

Godzilla’ El Niño: A Climate Scientist Explains What Could Happen in Terms of Surf, Snow, and Coastal Erosion

UK to convert former coal station into the nation’s first fusion power plant

Green Focus

Thousands of seabirds dying on western Europe’s coasts

Global Heat Wave - 108F (42C) North Shore CALIFORNIA HOTTEST MARCH DAY IN HISTORY