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A new rainwater harvesting system is now supplying up to 60% of the water needed to look after the 350,000 plants that are grown in greenhouses in Bute Park each year.
A Cardiff parks apprentice has won a ‘Shining Star Apprentice of the Year’ Award.
04/06/25 - New café opportunity for Parc Cefn Onn
An opportunity to develop a new café to serve the tens of thousands of people who visit the historic Grade II listed Parc Cefn Onn every year has been announced.
An urban forest project developed by Cardiff Council as part of its ‘One Planet Cardiff’ response to climate change has planted 36,526 new trees in the last 7 months.
Work to protect and renovate Flat Holm island's historic foghorn station and Victorian cholera hospital is underway.
09/04/25 - Pupils from St Paul's Church in Wales Primary School Break World Record in River Clean-Up
Pupils from St Paul's Church in Wales Primary School in Grangetown have made history by helping to break the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people participating in a river clean-up.
A new conservation project that aims to protect and restore woodland in North Cardiff that has been damaged by unauthorised trails has secured £346,000 funding.
Construction of a low-carbon district heating network that will reduce carbon emissions from connected buildings in Cardiff by up to 80% is nearing completion, with the first heat expected to be supplied to customers in the coming months.
Carbon emissions created directly by Cardiff Council have been cut by 18% since the launch of the local authority’s One Planet Cardiff response to climate change in 2019.
Get a taxi in Cardiff today and your trip could now be cleaner and greener due to a Cardiff Council scheme which has provided more than £200,000 of grants to enable the city’s taxi drivers to upgrade to more fuel efficient or fully electric vehicles.
12/02/25 - Bike scheme helping children in low-income families choose active travel to get to school
Children in low-income families in Cardiff are benefitting from a new scheme providing free, recycled bikes.
The 100,000th tree in a new ‘urban forest' has been planted in Cardiff, just four years after the first one.
A rare variety of apple tree that once grew in the grounds of the Bute family estate in Cardiff has been planted in the city for what is thought to be the first time in around 100 years.
On an isolated island like Flat Holm, with no mains water, gas or electricity supply to connect to, simple things like boiling a kettle and staying warm in the colder months can be more complicated than they are back on the mainland
10/12/24 - Surviving Storm Darragh on Flat Holm island
On a sunny day, there aren’t many better places to escape city life and reconnect with nature, than on an isolated island like Flat Holm. But during a storm, life on a tiny island in the Bristol Channel is far from paradise
03/12/24 - Rhiwbeina Primary School named as one of the 49 recipients of a ‘Trees of Hope' Sycamore Gap sapling
Rhiwbina Primary School in North Cardiff are among 49 recipients across the UK to receive a sapling from the felled Sycamore Gap Tree, which stood at Hadrian's Wall until it was unexpectedly cut down in September 2023.
