UK carbon emissions fall to 1890 levels

Crashing levels of coal use behind steep fall in emissions, but hopes for further progress are undermined by news of a rise in transport emissions
The last time annual UK carbon dioxide emissions were as consistently low as they are currently air travel was still an unproven invention and Oscar Wilde was preparing to publish his first and only novel,...
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