Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy.

In Scotland, the world’s largest wind farm has been approved.

SSE Renewable’s Berwick Bank offshore wind farm will be constructed 38km off the coast from St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve and close to Bass Rock, which is home to the world's largest island colony of northern gannets.

This week, Eco Chamber host James Agyepong-Parsons speaks with RSPB Scotland’s head of policy and advocacy Aedán Smith about why the granting of planning permission for the wind farm was “a very dark day for seabirds”.

ENDS deputy editor Tess Colley also discusses the latest developments on the story of controversial plans for gas exploration in North Yorkshire, and why the Environment Agency has dropped its initial objections to the site. 

PLUS: A first-of-a-kind PFAS dataset has been published, the UK Health Security Agency has appointed a new leader, and a push to bring lynx back has its second wind… 

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