Sweet Returns From Nature Protection
Nature protection is becoming attractive financially to entrepreneurs and investors.
How is our natural world changing and how are humans affecting it?
Nature protection is becoming attractive financially to entrepreneurs and investors.
Extinction Rebellion is one of the most prominent and fastest growing organisations in the fight against the climate emergency. It's never been far from the headlines since it was founded in 2018 with its mix of attention-grabbing stunts, direct action and...
Air expelled from ventilation systems can make corn and spinach grow taller and larger. This is good news for roof gardens and farms.
A new global study has found that wildlife populations have declined by 69 per cent on average since 1970 and that we now face the prospect of double, interlinked emergencies: the loss of biodiversity and human-induced climate change.The enormous drop in the...
"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" is the thorny riddle posed by The Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland. A court in California has, this week, been wrestling with its own baffling conundrum: is a bee actually a fish?The Court of Appeal of California has concluded...
As Putin’s army unleashes unimaginable misery on the people of Ukraine, it seems trite to talk about the war’s impact on the world’s programmes to geologically dispose of our most harmful radioactive wastes. But the invasion is changing our world, including how...
Whether you’re raising a glass to progress on tackling climate change at COP26 or you want to drown your sorrows that the pledges don’t go far enough, there’s a new book that will help you choose a more sustainable spirit for the occasion.A Good Drink: In Pursuit...
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finds that global temperature is expected to reach or exceed 1.5°C of warming averaged over the next 20 years. It reports that emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are already...
A succession of record-breaking natural disasters have swept the globe in recent weeks. There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and wildfires in the sub-Arctic.An annual report on the UK’s weather indicates...
The World Health Organization has certified China as malaria-free. Given that the country was reporting 30 million cases per year of the disease in the 1940s, it’s a major milestone in the worldwide campaign to eradicate the killer disease completely.How has China...
This year’s Earth Day was bigger than ever, with politicians, businesses, celebrities, NGOs and activists all using it as a moment to announce new initiatives addressing climate change.It would be an impossible task to summarise everything, but we’ve pulled...
It is no coincidence that President Joe Biden chose to hold his Leaders’ Summit on Climate on Earth Day. The initiative, now entering its second half century, has become a focal point for environmental action and activism around the world, and with climate change...
The UN estimates that around 4 billion people experience severe water shortages for at least one month a year and around 1.6 billion people - almost a quarter of the world's population - have problems accessing a clean, safe water supply.The UN's Sustainable...
Beavers have been released into British countryside to combat the effects of climate changeThe image of a beaver gnawing on the bark of a tree in the wilderness seems a long way from the British countryside. Any likelihood of witnessing such a scene virtually...
A fundamental change in how we think about and approach economics is needed if we are to reverse biodiversity loss and protect and enhance our prosperity, an independent, global review on the economics of biodiversity has found.Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta’s...
Bees are probably the most important insect on the planet. Not just because of the honey and other products they produce directly, but because they are the most prolific pollinators we have.Quite simply, without them, many plants would die. Ever watched The Bee...