Sweet Returns From Nature Protection
Nature protection is becoming attractive financially to entrepreneurs and investors.
Sweet Returns From Nature Protection
How is our natural world changing and how are humans affecting it?
Is The Rebellion Over?
Is The Rebellion Over?
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 Con Can Make Your Roof Garden Grow
Air Con Can Make Your Roof Garden Grow
Air expelled from ventilation systems can make corn and spinach grow taller and larger. This is good news for roof gardens and farms.
Massive Decline in Wildlife Over 50 Years
Massive Decline in Wildlife Over 50 Years
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...
When Is A Bee A Fish?
When Is A Bee A Fish?
"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...
In My Opinion: Nuclear Waste Debate Fuelled By War In Ukraine
In My Opinion: Nuclear Waste Debate Fuelled By War In Ukraine
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...
Sustainable Spirits Advance ‘Good Drink’ Movement
Sustainable Spirits Advance ‘Good Drink’ Movement
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...
Climate Change Intensifying Says IPCC
Climate Change Intensifying Says IPCC
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...
Summer 2021 Changes Our Understanding Of Extreme Weather
Summer 2021 Changes Our Understanding Of Extreme Weather
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...
Key Battle Won Against Malaria
Key Battle Won Against Malaria
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...
Earth Day At A Glance
Earth Day At A Glance
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...
The Day To Save The Earth
The Day To Save The Earth
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...
Looking Down On Polluted Waters
Looking Down On Polluted Waters
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...
How Bringing Back Beavers Could Help Fight Flooding
How Bringing Back Beavers Could Help Fight Flooding
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...
Nature Should Be An Economic Asset
Nature Should Be An Economic Asset
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...
Fighting For The Bees
Fighting For The Bees
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...
