Archive for ‘Politics’
New government scheme offers incentives for updating to renewable heating
Today the UK government announced a new programme of financial incentives that will reward businesses and individuals for upgrading their heating systems to use renewable resources. The £860 million Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme will support emerging heating technologies like biomass boilers (which burn wood pellets), solar thermal, ground and water source heat-pumps, on-site biogas, [...]
An end to fish discarding?
We’ve written a couple of times about the appalling practice in the North Seas fishery called “discarding.” Due to discarding, at least one-third – and some say up to one half – of the fish caught in the North Sea are thrown dead or dying back into the sea. The reason fish are being discarded [...]
Teenage pregnancy rates down- but for how long?
The Office for National Statistics has this week released statistics estimating that the number of under-18 pregnancies for 2009 was at its lowest since the early 1980s- a fall of 5.9%. Over half of these conceptions led to legal abortion, and the under-16 birth rate also fell.
