I recently attended a conference where Janine Benyus, author of the inspiring book Biomimicry said, “We are all part of nature.” I agree, and if we...
Only one in five children in the UK has a “realistic and achievable” connection to the natural world, a three-year study by the Royal Society for...
Creativity, entrepreneurship and ingenuity helped the UK lead the Industrial Revolution. But it is now in a dangerous position where it is afraid of making mistakes...
Paul Hawken is a Californian civil rights activist, environmentalist, businessman and author. Fortune named him the “original hippie entrepreneur” in 2002, and he coined the phrase...
More than 725 rhinos have been illegally killed in South Africa so far this year, according to the latest figures from the conservation charity Save the...
A species of bee rarely seen in the UK has been found nesting in an Oxfordshire business park. It’s thought that the ivy bees, nesting in...
Brazil’s soybean industry has been blamed for indirectly contributing to the deforestation of the Amazon, despite the introduction of a moratorium that aimed to prevent this...
When it comes to climate change and environmental protection, the Conservative party is often seen as having a big green dividing line down its middle, with...
News that JK Rowling is to write a new film in the Harry Potter universe, based on the in-book book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them...
David Beckham has united with Prince William and the retired Chinese basketball star Yao Ming to campaign against the illegal ivory trade that is pushing endangered...
The size of a proposed ocean reserve in Antarctic waters has been scaled back because of pressure from fishing nations. Governments, such as Russia, Norway, China,...
In this week’s featured TED talk, environmentalist and writer George Monbiot talks about the merits of ‘rewilding.’ Rewilding is a large scale method of conservation which...
It makes an unlikely poster boy, but the blobfish, a rarely seen species of deep-sea fish, has been voted the ‘world’s ugliest animal’ and adopted as...
A team of British researchers is preparing for an ambitious mission to Antarctica, to investigate the rapid melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The £7.4m...
“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been...