New legislation that the government says will cut UK Reach registration costs for chemical businesses by £40 million over the ...

The Independent British Vape Trade Association has highlighted to its members the Department for Environment, Food & Rural ...

Government proposes stricter heather burning restrictions, despite research showing controlled burns benefit carbon ...

A joint consultation to reform environmental permitting regulations has been launched by Defra and the Welsh government.

Already one in five homes in the country are at risk of flooding and as we build, as we must, 1.5 million homes, because of ...

Defra has allocated funding to support continued checks on illegal meat imports at Dover for 2025–26, but the port authority ...

Baroness Minette Batters, who was the president of the NFU for six years, has been appointed to lead a comprehensive review ...

Natural History Museum scientist Professor Anjali Goswami has been appointed as the new Chief Science Advisor at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and will take up the ...

Fraikin has secured a three-year contract to oversee the servicing, maintenance and compliance of 1,720 assets for Defra.

Angry farmers staged a dramatic protest in Tavistock, Devon, blocking the exit of Defra farming minister Daniel Zeichner with ...

A WIDER ban on heather burning on England’s moorlands would put lives at risk from catastrophic wildfires, landowners in the region have warned.