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Demonstrators against a third Heathrow runway gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, in October
CAMPAIGNERS have vowed to continue fighting against plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport after a Supreme Court ruling lifted the ban on the controversial project today.
The runway was previously blocked by a court of appeal ruling, which found that the government had failed to take account of its own climate commitments when it approved the scheme.
But the Supreme Court found that this was not necessary as the decision was reached at a time when the previous climate targets were less stringent.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
Campaign group’s legal challenge against decision to approve proposals dismissed
ALASTAIR BONNETT reports on the paradoxes of populist attitudes towards protection of the natural world