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Mayoral Election Issue #10: Environment

What are the candidates promising on air quality, energy, waste and green spaces?

One of London's lovely horse-chestnuts. Can you identify where?

The Dorchester Marks Birthday With Big Tree Planting

80 new trees to help secure London’s leafy future.

Elm seeds from FC Picture Library by Isobel Cameron

Help Bring Elm Trees Back To London

Live in Nine Elms, Elm Park or Elmwood Road?

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Elephant & Castle Residents Fight To Save Trees

The Heygate Estate is going, but should its trees be saved?

Elm seeds from FC Picture Library by Isobel Cameron

Ulmus Londinium: Help Map London’s Elms

Take up elm spotting this spring.

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Bomber Command Memorial Threatens Trees

An open-air pavilion dedicated to the memory of Bomber Command has been criticised by an environmental group. The memorial, set for Green Park, would necessitate the felling of nine trees, say Trees for Cities, who want the structure shifted somewhere else. No one wants to …

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An Elm For Elm Court School

Conservation Foundation Executive Director, David Shreeve, hands over the elm A quick Google Map search on things called elm in Lambeth throws up evidence that the great tree was once a notable fixture: Elm Court SW9, Elm Park Tavern SW2, Elm Park Dairies SW2, Elm …

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Sunday Seasoning #14

Every week we select a photo from the Londonist Flickr pool, taken in the last seven days, that illustrates this season or time of year in London. This week, winter sun shining through trees in Bow, shot by jjdubit.

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Greens Bash Boris Over Tree Planting Fail

One election promise Boris was swift to deliver on was scrapping the free mayoral newspaper The Londoner to save money, promising to spend it on priority parks and planting much needed trees. But quizzed at the LDA, Boris was accused of botching his promise by …

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In Pictures: Treehouse Galleries In Regent’s Park

Even a youthful Unabomber couldn’t have conceived a forest redoubt this cool. The Treehouse Galleries in Regent’s Park are about the funnest thing you’ll take your toddler to this summer. We say toddler, but really, the treehouses are in part all about the child within …

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Extra, Extra

A 13 year old boy has been stabbed in Camberwell. And another stabbing, this one fatal and in Croydon, is believed to have ensued after a drunken brawl. Boris wants to plant trees. Victoria tube station is to get some money spent on it. The …