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City workers and allotment farmers needed to reverse dwindling farm workforce

It was a loophole that most of us thought had been sewn up. But new research shows that companies are continuing to cash in on the 'super' greenhouse gas HFC-23

Its principals may seem strange but biodynamic winegrowers are in a league of their own when it comes to caring for soil, plant and planet. Plus, 10 wines to try in 2010

Analysis showing lower greenhouse gas emissions associated with intensive livestock production could pose a challenge to our views on best farming practice

A pioneering community-based hydroelectric energy project in the Brecon Beacons is a blueprint for how green energy can provide more than just low-carbon power...

NGO groups targeting marginal seats to pressure candidates into raising the profile of climate change in their election campaigns

Large-scale study highlights agricultural chemicals as a possible risk factor behind rising rates of melanoma in the US

A scientist who 'doesn't do dippy nonsense', hedgehog expert Hugh Warwick was moved by one spiny specimen into a new-found appreciation for the natural world

Pioneering environmentalist Bill McKibben hopes to take his readers by the collars and shake them in his new climate change wake-up call, Eaarth

A simple guide to freezing fruit, vegetables and herbs from the book Grow Your Own, Eat Your Own

It's not organic but ‘pro-environmental sustainable' farming practices could help coffee farmers move away from damaging industrial monoculture

The technology isn't fully developed yet, but when meat really can be grown in a lab it's going to turn all our arguments about carnivorous diets on their heads...

Dan launches a highly unscientific experiment to track the financial fortunes of five green companies, and five less-than-green...

Environmental activist Tamsin Omond is running for a Westminster seat on a platform of more collaborative democracy, and resurrecting the idea of the Commons as a shared public good

In this extract from Stuffed, Michael Pollan spells out the simple rules for buying and eating real food