Populations of invertebrates such as insects, spiders and worms – many of which are essential to the health of ecosystems – have fallen by 45% on...
Claire Wansbury and Veronica Lawrie, from consultancy firm Atkins, write how ecosystem services – the things that the nature does for us for free, like pollination –...
Giving a value to ecosystem services like food, fuel and pollination has the potential to fundamentally change the way ‘garden cities’ are designed and built, argues Claire...
The creation of protected areas in Costa Rica has helped reduce poverty by up to two-thirds in local communities, mostly thanks to tourism, new research has...
An environmental campaign group has called proposals to offset the destruction of wildlife “a license to trash nature”. The UK government has announced plans to compensate...
Anglia Ruskin University is to undertake an ambitious new project that plans to map the world’s resources. It is hoped that the Global Resource Observatory (GRO),...
Environmental philanthropy accounts for less than 3% of total UK philanthropic giving. This is a staggering statistic considering the sheer scale of environmental problems the world...
Global warming is causing changes in the behaviour of marine species, and forcing many creatures to move north in search of cooler waters, says new research....
Hundreds of millions of people will become displaced from their homes because of climate change, while the populations of one-third of common land animals will severely...
Asda, Morrisons and Greggs have appeared at the bottom of a table that ranks 20 commercial bakers on their use of palm oil in their products....
Many of Britain’s wild bees are in serious decline, including the large mason bee and the great yellow bumblebee, according to a report published by the...
Scientists have criticised the government for not providing enough protection for the marine environment. They warned the lack of action will result in “years of overexploitation...
Iceland president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson has revealed that China, India and Singapore are among the countries that could join the Arctic Circle, a new forum designed...
Leading economists are failing to account for ecosystem services such as climate change, water scarcity and pollinator fall off, because of the inherent short-term nature of...
Ecosystem services are crucial to our survival; we literally can’t afford to lose them. Increasing investment in and protection of these hugely important environmental assets can...