Saved: the endangered species back from the brink of extinction
Human activity has put wildlife around the world at risk, but many creatures are now thriving thanks to conservationists
Climate change
My eco-conscious home : Sustainable solutions to reduce water and energy usage
Everything we and our properties consume has a hidden water footprint. Successfully balancing what is good for us as individuals, good for the planet and good for our residence is how we all should think about sustainable living. We haven’t been focusing on water primarily because our efforts have centered on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We … Read more
‘Luxury water’ for £80 a bottle? It’s ignorant, insensitive and irresponsible
Limited edition water harvested from melting polar icebergs, is now on sale at Harrods. It’s just another ugly indicator of our world’s many inequalities
The City of Essen is officially the European Green Capital
The City of Essen, which is the only European city to have been awarded the titles Capital of Culture (2010) and European Green Capital, is entering into a green decade in 2017. The City of Essen is officially the European Green Capital. The Lord Mayor of Essen Thomas Kufen launched the title year. The award … Read more
We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years
At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them
This is the polar bear capital of the world, but the snow has gone
Canada’s Hudson Bay is as ice-free in November as on a summer’s day and polar bears could be extinct here by mid-century. If the bears are in trouble, so are we