Inspired by a work colleague, conservationist Rosie Magudia braves a stomach churning day on a small vessel in order to discover why the South West crab fisheries are some of the most sustainable in Europe.
Just as urban bee-keeping gets trendy, London yields are reported to be at their lowest. So what can be done give our city-dwelling bee populations a much-needed boost?
More than $300m (£188m) has been promised to stop the exploitation of 846m barrels of oil below the Yasuní national park in Ecuador, one of the world's most biologically rich areas of rainforest, new figures show.
Despite promises of a radical shake-up - followed by months of bickering - the new Energy Bill delivers business as usual with the big six energy companies still dominating our energy supplies, says Bibi van der Zee
Today marks the start of the United Nations Climate Summit (COP 18) in Qatar. As negotiations commence, Matt Adam Williams, Co-Director of the UK Youth Climate Coalition, explains why young people’s prospects hang in the balance in both London and Doha .
I don't want to be told that thanks to Global Warming - now accepted by the majority (77%) of Americans and so therefore, in my opinion, a new Tipping Point - strawberry plants can now survive a Greenland winter.
The Field Studies Council (FSC) is pleased to announce its exciting new programme of natural history courses for 2013, presenting a unique opportunity to learn and be inspired by the natural world.
Earlier this month, The Ecologist published an impassioned opinion piece by Mary Rice, asserting that the fault for the alarming rise in elephant poaching lies with legal CITIES-approved sales of ivory. These sales, she argued, had served only to trigger new levels of demand. Here, Daniel Stiles strongly disagrees.......
Noise can be stressful and in a city it’s hard to escape it. The blare of traffic, police sirens, sound systems, mobile phones and building work, blurs into one constant din that frays the nerves.
Research repeatedly shows that if communities are likely to see a financial benefit to having a wind farm nearby, acceptance would be a whole lot easier. And this week, Good Energy started paving that way. Bibi van der Zee reports
Before the end of this month, the Coalition will publish a new Energy Bill, which sets out its strategy for UK ‘energy futures’. Paul Dorfman has an idea who is likely to reap the highest benefits and guess what? It's not you or me ...
Jo Confino discovers that it is often an 'inner journey' that lies behind many business leaders finding their sustainability voice, and argues that it's time to better foster the conditions in which this can happen.
What is it about wind power that has grown men at each other’s throats and furiously frothing at the mouth? Greenpeace went under cover to discover what Bibi van der Zee has been telling us for weeks ….
