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A major pollution incident has occurred along the UK’s East Sussex coast, where millions of plastic biobeads have washed up on the shoreline at Camber Sands and neighbouring beaches following a failure at Southern Water’s Eastbourne wastewater treatment works ...

New landmark initiatives aimed at accelerating global action to cut methane and other climate-harming gases have been launched from the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (CoP30) in Brazil. EIA’s Climate campaigners welcome the announcements, made yesterday ...

EIA’s report Cooling the Climate Crisis analysed the climate impact of supermarket refrigeration and revealed that up to 70 per cent of a supermarket’s emissions stem from cooling. Our Climate campaigners have been directly engaging with the retail sector since 2009 ...

EIA and 53 organisations from around the world have urged the Government to commit to a full and immediate ban on all UK plastic waste exports. The joint letter to Emma Reynolds MP warns that without action, the UK will continue to fuel environmental injustice, toxic pollution and waste crime ...

Malawi has long featured as a key player in the global wildlife trafficking scene. As far back as 2002, Malawian wildlife trafficking networks were heavily implicated when Singaporean officials intercepted 6.2 tonnes of ivory in what was then the largest ivory smuggling case detected ...

The European Commission has formally proposed simplifications to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and confirmed the law will still apply from January 2026. Although it now comes with new exemptions, the Commission’s decision to resist additional postponement is welcome …

Despite Africa’s elephants and rhinos still living under serious threat from poaching and illegal trade, Namibia is pushing hard to resume ivory and horn sales, a move EIA warns would be catastrophic for remaining wild populations, not just in Namibia but elsewhere in Africa too ...

To mark UK Heat Pump Week, EIA Climate Campaigner Adam Aucock shares his experience of getting a climate-friendly natural refrigerant heat pump installed in his home. "Within a few months of my recent house move, a major leak in our hot water system left us with some very wet carpets ..."

The UK produces the second largest amount of plastic waste per capita globally, with an estimated 1.7 billion items of plastic discarded weekly – averaging 90 billion items per person annually. But for years, we’ve been offloading mountains of plastic waste onto other countries ...