A new proposal has been launched in Greater Manchester for a groundbreaking pilot that experts say could eventually end absolute poverty for good across the UK, as well as improve the health and ...

Rivers are powerful beings. They can make or break our towns and cities – many ancient settlements are only where they are because they were founded on the banks of a river, which centuries later may ...

Unless something changes dramatically between now and then, Sheffield is on course to miss its stated target of reaching net-zero by 2030 by a huge margin, according to new figures published by the ...

Dam_Fino performing at the Water Rats, London, in 2018. Iamardie. Instead of taking you through my usual introductory catalogue of negative statistics, I'm going to buck the trend and let you have ...

During a cold January, the smell of wood smoke became very familiar in a lot of Sheffield neighbourhoods. That is not just anecdotal – the figures show that some 22% of households in the UK now burn ...

Marginality [is] much more than a site of deprivation. In fact, I was saying the opposite: that it is also the site of radical possibility, a space of resistance. For me as curator of the exhibition, ...

The Sheffield Climate Bond could raise money for projects like solar farms. N Chadwick on Wikimedia Commons. Minesh Parekh is a Labour and Co-operative councillor for Crookes and Crosspool. The new ...

No Bounds Festival at Hope Works last year. Hope Works. Attercliffe rave cave Hope Works recently announced that after twelve years leading Sheffield’s dance music culture, it will be closing its ...

Aimee Ambrose, a Professor of Energy Policy at Sheffield Hallam University, writes for Now Then about a research project that aimed to explore the emotional attachment people have to burning solid ...

We’re modelling a different kind of journalism – one that plays an active role in building the better world we so desperately need. It’s not enough to hold powerful people to account or simply point ...

Labour councillor Minesh Parekh writes about an exciting project due to launch later this year that will see South Yorkshire’s citizens join the race to net-zero.

School of East Asian Studies staff and students on a field trip to Tokyo, April 2023. The University of Sheffield (UoS) have announced they are planning to make “significant” staffing cuts to a highly ...