Five years ago, when Mark Barrow started his project to film along the 65-mile River Wharfe in Yorkshire, he captured footage of majestic shoals of…
View More ‘Shocking and sad’: photographer’s project reveals wildlife lost to pollution in Yorkshire’s River WharfeTag: Yorkshire
Former fracking site could lead UK’s renewable revolution
A former fracking site in the North Yorkshire village of Kirby Misperton, once a lightning rod for environmental protests, may soon be a new frontier…
View More Former fracking site could lead UK’s renewable revolutionMPs call for review of Environment Agency flood failings in England
MPs in areas of England worst hit by Storm Babet have called for a review of Environment Agency (EA) failings after reporting that some residents…
View More MPs call for review of Environment Agency flood failings in EnglandScientists seek out source of dark matter in Yorkshire
British scientists have an audacious dream. They want to house a giant international particle detector that would be built 3,000ft underground in a working mine…
View More Scientists seek out source of dark matter in YorkshireDead whale removed from Bridlington beach after becoming tourist attraction
The carcass of a 30-tonne fin whale that died after being beached in Bridlington has been removed in an operation described as the “largest of…
View More Dead whale removed from Bridlington beach after becoming tourist attraction‘Left out in the cold’: the boaters locked out of fuel support
Once thought of as the coolest place in Britain to live, Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has become a small hub for people in search…
View More ‘Left out in the cold’: the boaters locked out of fuel supportClimate crisis prompts RHS to plan for sending rhododendrons north
In Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier’s unnamed narrator was shocked and bewildered by the over-proud “slaughterhouse red, luscious and fantastic” rhododendrons she encountered at Manderley on…
View More Climate crisis prompts RHS to plan for sending rhododendrons northFears dash for wind power could cut off lost world of Doggerland
While the Conservative party’s proposed dash for wind power is good news for the climate it could be bad news for archaeology, with rapid offshore…
View More Fears dash for wind power could cut off lost world of Doggerland‘We’re devastated’: Yorkshire town hit by floods for third time in decade
As Storm Franklin raged through the night, Mick Malkinson, 72, lay awake with a familiar sense of fear about what the morning would bring. From…
View More ‘We’re devastated’: Yorkshire town hit by floods for third time in decade‘Quite incredible’: some of world’s rarest camellias discovered in Yorkshire
Horticultural experts have compared it to finding a wondrous and unknown library of rare first editions, said the head gardener of Wentworth Woodhouse, Scott Jamieson,…
View More ‘Quite incredible’: some of world’s rarest camellias discovered in Yorkshire