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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recently concluded exhibition at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery – Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood – featured themes of women’s struggles, the expectations placed on them by society, and the ...

Almost all of Sheffield lies within a smoke control area. No fines were issued in Sheffield for dangerous home wood-burning between September 2023 and August 2024, despite hundreds of complaints about ...

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 ...

The 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day – an annual commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust, including 6 million Jews. This year is the 80th anniversary since the liberation of the Auschwitz ...