by Agency Reporter | Aug 23, 2023 | Briefing
ONE IN TWO working private renters in England – 3.2 million adults – would not have enough in savings to pay their rent for more than a month if they lost their job, new research by Shelter reveals. And 2.2 million renters (34 per cent) would be immediately unable to...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 23, 2023 | Briefing
GLOBAL SOUTH countries are trapped in relying on fossil fuel exploitation to generate revenue to pay debts, according to a new report published by 35 organisations including ActionAid International, Friends of the Earth International, Oil Change International, the...
by Staff Writer | Aug 22, 2023 | Briefing
NEW DATA from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) shows that acceptances onto nursing courses are down 13 per cent across the UK. This follows an overall decline in students applying to study nursing. The decline in acceptances on to nursing...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 22, 2023 | Briefing
IN A historic referendum, people in Ecuador have voted to block oil drilling on uncontacted tribes’ land in the Yasuní National Park. Leonidas Iza, President of Ecuador’s national Indigenous organisation CONAIE, said: “The Ecuadorian people, mindful of life, in...
by Staff Writer | Aug 21, 2023 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH from Conservation International offers the most robust understanding yet as to which socio-economic, cultural, regulatory and environmental factors have the greatest impact on forests – for better and worse. The study, by Jonah Busch of Conservation...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 21, 2023 | Briefing
NORTHERN IRELAND Humanists has urged the Executive Office (TEO) to make sure its equality work means equality for everyone in Northern Ireland, including the non-religious, religious minorities, and LGBT people. In response to a consultation on its draft Equality...
