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How challenging would it be to live entirely on wild food for a whole year?

Alice Waters on dining with the Dalai Lama, edible schoolyards and life in Berkeley, USA

Non-native invasive water plants threaten biodiversity and ecosystems. You’d expect to find them on a banned list, not on sale at UK garden centres.

In the final instalment from Britain’s historic waterways, the Ecologist’s narrowboat correspondent finds a literal and metaphorical light at the end of the tunnel on the Grand Union canal

Our attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using more efficient technology might be doomed to at least partial failure, say scientists.

The use of the jatropha plant as a source of biofuel has gone from environmental hero to zero in the space of two years.

Child labour is still in routine use in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan, according to a new investigation by the
Environmental Justice Foundation.

Put the date on your calendar: global oil supplies peaked in the first quarter of 2008.

Despite lobbying from the pesticide industry, the US Environmental Protection Agency has said it will continue with a ban on the toxic insecticide carbofuran.

In a recession we all tighten our belts, right? Not necessarily, according to an academic at the University of Hertfordshire.

City legislators in Toronto, Canada, have stipulated that half the surface area of roofs on new large buildings are to be seeded as green roofs.

Amazon indians have called for an insurrection against the Peruvian government, whose authority they say they no longer recognise.

UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, has made welcome statements indicating a shift in attitude towards food policy

An increase in air pollution is destroying floral aromas, meaning pollinators such as bees and butterflies may soon be struggling find pollen sources.