The eco guide to keeping your recycling muscles fit
It’s desperately important that we redouble our efforts to combat pollution and waste Recycling is a bit like fitness. The moment you stop putting in the effort, you lose your muscle. This was on my mind as I watched microwavable black plastic containers whizzing up a conveyer belt at a recycling depot in Kent. This […]
The hidden treasures of Mount Mabu – in pictures
In the mid-2000s, in a room at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, Professor Julian Bayliss used Google Earth to discover a hidden rainforest in Northern Mozambique which is home to dozens of new species of flora and fauna. Professor Bayliss and Alliance Earth Director Jeffrey Barbee ventured with a team into the heart of the forest. […]
Foreign companies flock to build nuclear plants in the UK
A South Korean firm is just the latest to be lured by Britain’s atomic amibitions as safety concerns and cost stalk the industry Nuclear energy faces an uncertain future globally as concerns over safety and cost dog the industry. But in the UK, foreign investors are queueing up to back projects. The latest is South […]
Fell race tests even the spectators
Dent Fell, west Cumbria Runners in the Jarrett’s Jaunt race have little time to appreciate the fell’s panoramic views of the Solway Firth By hump-backed Wath Brow bridge, weary fell runners step gingerly down slippery banking into the icy waters of the river Ehen, swollen by overnight rain. Ah, the blessed relief as they rub […]
Why reignite Tasmania's forest wars – to produce logs no one will buy? | Lenore Taylor
The state government’s determination to open up protected land for logging is a saga that moves from ridiculous to absurd I thought I’d seen the turbid depths of policy driven by ideology and perceived political self-interest, but then I turned my attention back to the Tasmanian forest “wars”. I first started reporting on this issue […]
Inspectors find safety irregularities at Creusot nuclear forge in France
Evidence of doctored paperwork found at Areva-owned forge, which has made parts for Hinkley Point An international team of inspectors has found evidence of doctored paperwork and other failings at a forge in France that makes parts for nuclear power stations around the world. The UK nuclear regulator said the safety culture at the site, […]
Anti-Adani activists vow 'direct action' against mine contractor Downer
Campaigners will occupy work sites, chain themselves to machinery and clog phone lines, Galilee Blockade says A group of activists say the mining contractor Downer Group is the “prime target” of a civil disruption campaign to force it to walk away from a $2bn deal to build and run Adani’s proposed Queensland coalmine. Galilee Blockade […]
The EU is right to put bees before business | Letters
Sarah Mukherjee accuses the EU proposal to ban neonicotinoids from fields of being “political” (Europe poised for total ban on bee-harming pesticides, March 24). Damn right. If she means supporting the long-term interests of people over the short-term blinkered interests of a few businesses, I can hardly think of a better definition of the word. From […]
Murder in Malaysia: how protecting native forests cost an activist his life
Malaysian activist Bill Kayong fought to save forest lands from logging and oil palm development. Like a troubling number of environmental campaigners around the world, he paid the highest price, reports Yale Environment 360 Environmentalists at risk: read part one in this series It was 8.20am on 21 June 2016. Bill Kayong, an up-and-coming political […]
Bitten by the same bug: Octogenarian couple donate insect collection to university – video
Octogenarian couple Charles and Lois O’Brien have this week announced they would donate their home collection of more than a million insects to Arizona State University. The collection was gathered over almost six decades and is worth an estimated $10m (£8m). It will help be a resource for scientists who study natural controls on the […]