Environment and Farming
NATURE RESERVES: The 14 Swansea green spaces about to get protected status, from Port Eynon to Pontarddulais
Clyne Valley, the Mumbles cliffs, Loughor foreshore and the Lower Swansea Valley are among 14 council-owned sites the council says…
CLEAN AIR: Swansea’s official pollution zone set to be scrapped after 25 years
Homes along the main roads through Hafod, Sketty and Fforestfach have sat inside a legal "bad air" zone since 2001.…
GOWER: Livestock road casualties on the commons fall from 140 to 33 in a year, council says
The council says 80 Welsh Government-funded collars on Fairwood cattle turned the herds back before they reached the road, and…
BRIDGEND: Council may skip tendering rules to keep the bins emptied when it takes over collections next July
Bridgend wants to keep using some of its contractor's 130 suppliers without putting the work out to tender. Its own…
SWANSEA: Rooftop gardens and bee ‘buzz highways’ put the city in a global club with Singapore
A new report counts 16 green roofs and living walls across the city centre, the planting that won Swansea a…
STICKER SHOCK: Wrong bag, wrong day, and the new Carmarthenshire bin rules that can end in court
Bin crews won't empty your own wheelie bin, holiday lets lose their collection even if they pay premium council tax,…
POLES APART: Towy Valley pylon firm swaps steel towers for 22-metre poles, just five metres shorter
Green GEN Cymru says a slimmer single-pole design could carry both its planned power lines to Llandyfaelog, with a prototype…
CELTIC SEA: 21 underwater microphones are listening for whales and dolphins before the floating wind farms arrive
A £2.7m project run from Pembroke Dock has planted listening stations across the seabed, 20km apart, to record what lives…
NEATH: 100 more parking spaces at Gnoll Country Park, and twelve weeks of work starting today
Work begins this morning on an extension adding 100 spaces, along with 14 electric vehicle charging points and 15 cycle…
SWANSEA: Kids were reported ill after swimming in the Tawe. Now Torsten Bell wants residents round a table about the water
The Swansea West MP is holding a public meeting on the city's rivers, beaches and coastal water on Thursday 8…
LLANELLI: Petition launched to move or shut the site blamed for summer’s fly plague
Glanymor councillors Sean Rees and Louvain Roberts say enforcement alone is not enough, and want the future of the AMG…