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Mayor warns Rough gas store could be lost before ministers decide

The UK's only large-scale gas store, off the East Yorkshire coast, loses its consent in April. Hull and East Yorkshire's mayor wants the Government to decide its future first.

October 3, 2026Hull

Environment Featured West Yorkshire

The rarest babies in Leeds have four legs

Temple Newsam's Home Farm has five new Vaynol calves. There are only around 150 of the breed in Britain, and choosing their names is now the most important job in east Leeds.

October 3, 2026Leeds

Environment Featured West Yorkshire

Why winter cold spells are getting milder

Remember the Beast from the East? Hold on to that memory. Leeds researcher Weronika Osmolska finds winter cold spells across the northern hemisphere are getting rarer, milder and shorter, and not in the way scientists predicted.

September 27, 2026Leeds

Environment Featured South Yorkshire

Friends’ 50-year campaign has made Carlton Marsh one of Yorkshire’s richest nature reserves

What started in 1975 as three wildlife enthusiasts lobbying Barnsley Council to protect a patch of wetland known locally as Carlton Swamps has grown into a reserve with more than 2,000 recorded species, marking its 50th anniversary this year.

September 18, 2026Barnsley

Environment Featured Yorkshire

Yorkshire Dales reports progress on 21 of 40 National Park objectives

The Yorkshire Dales National Park's first annual progress report shows good progress on 21 of 40 objectives in its 2025-30 Management Plan, including £1.5m in farm grants and peatland restoration across 2,275 hectares.

September 17, 2026

Environment Featured South Yorkshire

Barnsley Council leader calls for review of climate and net zero commitments

Barnsley Council leader Cllr William Brown has ordered a full review of the authority's climate and net zero work, and says he wants the council to formally withdraw its Climate Emergency Declaration and associated targets.

September 8, 2026Barnsley

Tracking the drilling rig's voyage aboard the BBC Bangkok

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Powerful drilling rig sails towards York for four-kilometre geothermal well

A specialist drilling rig is sailing from Turkey to North East Lincolnshire ahead of a four-kilometre geothermal well at the University of York, part of the FutureSource project aimed at cutting the university's fossil fuel use.

September 3, 2026York

Environment Featured Yorkshire

Volunteers sought as a quarter of Yorkshire river samples show poor water quality

Almost a quarter of river samples taken across Yorkshire's Aire and Derwent catchments during April's Great UK WaterBlitz showed poor water quality, prompting Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's Rivers to Reef project to call for more volunteers ahead of September's next sampling weekend.

September 2, 2026