Plastic straws, cutlery and polystyrene food and drink containers look set to be banned in Wales…
Year: 2020
Plantwatch: kelp – forgotten forests that help tackle climate crisis
There are forgotten forests in Britain that are largely neglected and often abused, yet they combat…
US national parks cause public health concern as visitors flood in
Even as Broadway shows were shuttered and Disneyland was closed due to the Covid-19, most US…
2020 European Tree of the Year – in pictures
Belgium: the Tree of Freedom of the Waret Citizens Age: 223-year-old. Species: horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum).…
UK’s first ‘super’ national nature reserve created in Dorset
It is a rich, complex landscape, a mosaic of heaths, woods, mires, reed beds, salt marsh…
Pine tree near flooded Czech village voted European tree of the year
A lonely pine tree believed by superstitious locals to act as sentinel over a flooded Czech…
Air pollution likely to increase coronavirus death rate, warn experts
The health damage inflicted on people by long-standing air pollution in cities is likely to increase…
2019 was bad year for floods and drought in England, say charities
Last year was one of the worst in recent times for both flooding and drought in…
5 Protections to Put on Your Investment Portfolio
Investments are risky business. You could end up losing all your investments in a single bad…
Revealed: Monsanto’s secret funding for weedkiller studies
Monsanto secretly funded academic studies indicating “very severe impacts” on farming and the environment if its…