The announcement comes as part of the governments £3bn ($3.9bn) clean air strategy. Air pollution is thought to shorten the lives of around 40,000 people per year.
Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said on July 25 that large transfer fees are here to stay as he spoke about the money the club has had to pay for their new signings.City have spent around £120 million ($156.35 million) on buying three new full backs in 10 days.
The US Geological Survey said at around 1.30am local time on Friday morning (21 July) a magnitude 6.7 quake struck 10km south of the Turkish city of Bodrum and 16km north-east of Kos, Greece, areas popular with British tourists. The European quake agency EMSC reported the prospect of a small tsunami. However, this was downplayed by Turkish officials who said large waves, rather than a tsunami, were expected.
By 2050, were set to have tipped 35,000 Empire State Buildings worth of plastic waste into landfills, the countryside, wilderness and oceans. The first global study on plastic waste has found that 80% of it is chucked out without being recycled.
Flash flooding sent water rushing through the streets after severe thunderstorms hit the Cornish village of Coverack on Tuesday, July 18.An elderly couple was rescued from the roof of a house. According to the Mullion Fire Station, firefighters from Mullion and Cornwall Fire and Rescue worked together with the coastguard to airlift the couple from the roof of their home, after they had become trapped by the floods.
A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has concluded that 30% of the 27,600 terrestrial vertebrate species evaluated are losing populations. According to Gerardo Ceballos, study co-author and Ecology professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, if this trend continues, at the end of the century 70% of these species would be lost.
The U.S. president admitted that the government will probably let Obamacare fail after the latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act collapsed.
The decision to leave the reef off of the list is a big political win for the Australian government, who have come under criticism for their management of the lucrative tourist attraction.
Watch iridescent snakes, sloths and a kaleidoscope of butterflies as indigenous Ecuadorian guide Kamanja Panashekung takes you through the Amazon rainforest, to explain why conservation of the lungs of the planet matters.
Fires in the countryside east of Cape Town forced evacuations, including in the popular resort town of Knysna, on June 7, local media reported. Video posted to a social media website showed a building in Knysna burning while flames engulfed the hillsides around the town.
Ghost gear, or discarded fishing equipment, can kill hundreds of thousands of marine animals a year. Conservationists and volunteers are working to clean up as much of the gear as possible to save wildlife.