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Activists have turned a roundabout outside the front entrance of Syngenta’s HQ into a giant hazard symbol carrying the message “Syngenta poisons nature” with an arrow pointing directly at Syngenta’s building Credit Greenpeace

Arrests as Greenpeace blockades Syngenta in protest over deadly insecticides
More than 40 campaigners were arrested after they blockaded the Huddersfield headquarters of Syngenta in a protest over chemicals it processes that are deadly t...

Newly-elected Green MP for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, poses for photos at Westminster Bridge, London, with Green Party leader Zack Polanski. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Why the Greens could be onto something - YP Letters

Jeep Wrangler Rubicon: what happened when this gargantuan 4x4 went head-to-head with a Mercedes EQB might surprise you.

'Are you sure you're not some sort of drug dealer?'

The EnergyTown game is marketed towards UK schoolchildren, and funded by energy giant Equinor

Warning over classroom game accused of 'brainwashing' schoolchildren

How does the UK respond to oil spills? Your key questions answered

Drax currently generates energy using biomass wood pellets at four of its units in Selby. Photo: Simon Hulme

Environmental groups issue fresh call to end biomass subsidies

Greenpeace activists on the roof of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's house in Richmond, North Yorkshire, after covering it in black fabric in protest at his backing for expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling. Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Charges against activists who scaled Rishi Sunak’s home thrown out

Leeds Station concourse pictured in 2022 during strik action. PIC: Julie Marshall

An affordable railcard would boost passenger numbers

A photo issued by Youth Demand of a person being talked to by a police officer. PIC: Youth Demand/PA Wire

Why protests at Rishi Sunak’s North Yorkshire home were not acceptable

Shell has said annual profits tumbled in 2023 after lower oil and gas prices knocked its bottom line. (Photo by Anna Gowthorpe/PA Wire)

Shell reveals annual profits tumbled in 2023

Prime minister Rishi Sunak (left) walks with Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer through the Central Lobby at the Palace of Westminster ahead of the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords, London in November. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

I've become thoroughly sick of politics during 2023: Bill Carmichael

Sure and Dove products are among those made by Unilever.

CMA probes potential 'greenwashing' of Unilever cleaning products

Greenpeace activists on the roof of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's house in Richmond, North Yorkshire. (Credit: PA)

Rishi Sunak plans to build fence around Yorkshire mansion after roof protest

The UK was among 67 countries to sign the UN's new high seas treaty on its first day (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Breaking UK signs new ocean treaty but net zero u-turn 'already undermining it'

Former home secretary Priti Patel. Picture: Andrew Boyers/PA Wire

Priti Patel calls for review of Rishi Sunak's security

Yorkshire Water's reservoirs were only 35 per cent full by the end of September 2022. Pictured is Ladybower Reservoir in the Peak District near Sheffield. Picture: Tony Johnson

Yorkshire Water close to breaching operating licence during last year's drought

Greenpeace activists on the roof of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's house in Richmond, North Yorkshire. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

North Yorkshire Police failed to protect the PM’s home - YP Letters

'Antonio Guetteres, Secretary General of the United Nations, is trying to wake us all up to the existential threat of climate change'. PIC: Jeon Heon-Kyun - Pool/Getty Images

Climate activists are delivering an important message - Yorkshire Post Letters

Greenpeace activists on the roof of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's house in Richmond. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Serious questions need to be asked over protests at the PM’s home - GP Taylor

Police near Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's house in Richmond, North Yorkshire after Greenpeace activists climbed onto it's roof and covered it in black fabric. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Greenpeace protests at Rishi Sunak’s home cross the line - The YP says

Greenpeace activists climb onto the roof of the Prime Minister's £2m manor house in Yorkshire this morning in protest at his backing for a major expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling amidst a summer of escalating climate impacts (Photo: Greenpeace)

Greenpeace protesters climb onto roof of Rishi Sunak's North Yorkshire home
Greenpeace activists have said they have scaled Rishi Sunak’s mansion in protest at his new drilling “frenzy”.
Sam Blewett, PA Deputy Political Editor

Drax's North Yorkshire power station.

Drax US wood pellet plant breaches air pollution limits for second time

'If any of you have been following the TV series, Clarkson’s Farm, I am sure that like me, you will have had your eyes opened to the difficulties farmers face'. PIC: PA Photo/Amazon Prime Video/Stephanie Hazelwood.

Anti-farming policies could lead to a backlash from British farmers - GP Taylor

Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss at the annual Conservative Party Conference. PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

PM delivers short speech as bruising conference comes to an end - The YP says

Protestors heckle Prime Minister Liz Truss during her keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference 2022 in Birmingham.

Greenpeace protestors heckle Liz Truss during keynote speech

BP bosses were branded ’brazen profiteers’ after the company tripled profits and planned to increase dividends to shareholders by 10 per cent. Picture: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty.

Instead of vilifying, we should be proud of firms like BP - Bill Carmichael

The group of Greenpeace activists confronted the 183m oil tanker which was carrying 42,000 tonnes of Russian fuel oil

Activists confront tanker carrying Russian oil shipment off Yorkshire coast

A boulder falling into the English Channel from the MV Esperanza in February 2021 Credit: Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace

Greenpeace cleared over celebrity-backed boulder dumping protest

Artist Steve Wintercroft from Scarborough with some of the masks he makes. Picture: Gary Longbottom.

How Yorkshire mask-maker caught the eye of Greenpeace, Björk and the BBC Proms

A boulder falling into the English Channel from the MV Esperanza
Credit: Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace

Judge challenges Government body over Greenpeace prosecution

Granite boulders being dropped into the English Channel by Greenpeace Picture: Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace

George Eustice urged to drop 'boulder barriers' case against Greenpeace

UEFA has said that “law authorities will take the necessary action” for what it called a “reckless and dangerous” act (Photo: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)

‘Several people’ injured after Greenpeace protester parachutes into stadium at F... Helen Johnson

A boulder falls into the North Sea from the Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, last year. Picture: Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace

Banning harmful trawling on Dogger Bank will help wildlife, experts say

Morrisons is asking its branded suppliers to reduce plastic in both product packaging and on the shelf display packaging

Bradford-based Morrisons asks suppliers to help fight war on plastic

A boulder is manoeuvred onto a slide on the Greenpeace ship, Esperanza. Picture: Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace

Greenpeace ignores warning over dropping boulders on Dogger Bank

A boulder falls into the North Sea from the Greenpeace ship, Esperanza. Picture: Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace

Campaigners drop boulders on Dogger Bank in bid to stop industrial fishing

Another round of Extinction Rebellion protests has been taking place as Britain prepares to return to work.

Don’t let Extinction Rebellion’s antics wreck our fragile economy – Bernard Ingh...

The fee for plastic carrier bags is set to double from April next year.

Plastic bag levy to be doubled and extended to all retailers from April

The Duke of Cambridge is the latest member of the Royal family to speak out on environmental issues.

Prince William and Royal Family’s doom-mongering over climate change is misguide...

The paper bags have been trialed in eight Morrisons stores since January

Morrisons introduces paper carrier bags

Leeds North East MP Fabian Hamilton

Leeds MP calls for more cash for transport in Yorkshire after vote on Heathrow A...

Brits wasting Â£505m per year on new mobiles

Holland & Barrett to stop selling krill products after warning from Greenpeace

The arguments over whether we should allow fracking of the Yorkshire landscape continue to rage.

Exclusive: Energy firm '˜refused to rule out fracking under North York Moors'

Greenpeace campaigners wearing emperor penguin masks and dressed in black and white in City Square, Leeds
Antarctic Commission will meet to decide whether to create the largest protected area on earth ,an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. At right are Alan Rawlinson and Jane Harnet Jt Local Network Co-ordinators Greenpeace

This is why there were penguins marching through Leeds city centre yesterday

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Read this before you go sales shopping: the environmental costs of fast fashion

What will be the outlook for rural Yorkshire in 2018?

Dorothy Fairburn: Remember '˜it is farmers, and not Greenpeace, that maintain h...

The green machine fuelled by your taxes

Bernard Ingham: There's far too much hot air about global warming

Longer-lasting 10p bags will be offered instead

The end of the 5p bag? Tesco to stop selling single-use carriers

The research shows 33 nurseries in the region are in close proximity to roads where the level of nitrogen dioxide from diesel traffic exceeds the legal limit of 40g/m3, (micrograms per cubic metre of air).

Young children across Yorkshire are being exposed to illegal levels of air pollu...

Jim Ratcliffe (right), chairman of Ineos

Fracking giant targets Yorkshire village

Whitby is perceived to be the poor relation when compared to Scarborough.

YP Letters: Tale of two towns based on inequality

A fracking rig. Bernard Ingham argues that this is a small price to pay for the guarantee of future energy supplies.

Bernard Ingham: Fracking is small price to pay for future prosperity

Actresses Emma Thompson (right) and her sister Sophie at a potential fracking site near Preston, where they have broken a court injunction to film a pastiche episode of the Great British Bake Off

Video: Actress Emma Thompson is sprayed with manure during spoof film on frackin...

Anti-fracking demonstrators on Scarborough's south bay.

As protesters gather on Scarborough beach, is Greenpeace planning to hijack Nort...

Greenpeace staged a protest against fracking in Westminster today

Public backs local fracking decisions

Greenpeace campaigners and people from flood-hit areas installed an artwork outside the Houses of Parliament in London, featuring 500 pairs of wellington boots, which each carry a message from those affected by the recent flooding.

Video: '˜Wellies' protest goes to Downing Street as voters label floods response...

Kevin Hollinrake, MP

Don’t fear fracking U-turn, says Tory MP

Bjorn the Polar Bear at Countryside Live held at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate. Picture: Tony Johnson

Countryside Live: Polar bear is a big hit with visitors

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