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.
… Aquatic invaders threat to biodiversity Paul Miles | 19th June 2009 News Biodiversity Water Plants Natural World … Non-native invasive water plants threaten biodiversity and ecosystems. You’d expect to …
Habitat loss doesn’t just affect rainforest dwellers, says Paul Miles. New builds and carbon reducing measures have been tough on the species that share our homes. Here's how to bring them back
… Habitat loss is the main threat to global biodiversity and despite much of the debate … marks the beginning of the UN’s Decade on Biodiversity, with world leaders being … other species and by doing so, encouraging biodiversity, there are several ways to do …
Former Director of the Tyndall Centre and a Professor at the University of East Anglia, Andrew Watkinson explains why 'a few loose sentences' in the IPCC report shouldn't change people's opinion of the science
… Politics And Economics Ecosystem Services Biodiversity Alleviating Poverty Economic … sheep production, but clearly then the biodiversity goes down, the water quality goes … TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) report and doing for nature what …
As reform of the EU's agriculture policy gets underway, Miles King of the Grassland Trust tells Matilda Lee how intensive farming has all but destroyed England's 'rainforests' and why it's time we started asking for more from our farmers
… 2011 Activism Food And Farming CAP Grasslands Biodiversity Intensive Agriculture Butterflies … very little change in terms of increasing biodiversity,' comments King. 'There is also … no monitoring, that this has stopped further biodiversity loss. Currently, there is not …
Can there be wildlife in our urban jungles? Matilda Lee meets a man campaigning to let nature live on city rooftops
… on the use of green roofs to promote biodiversity, and went to see him. The Swiss … urban design with specific conservation and biodiversity objectives. In the Swiss model, … the multiple benefits of green roofs – from biodiversity, stormwater drainage and heat …
The senior project manager at Landlife, the charity working to bring people and wildlife closer together, on 'principled' dealings with corporations and why it's important to make politicians jealous
… Natural World Wildlife Wildflowers Landlife Biodiversity Buglife Bees Neal's Yard Remedies … plants are the 'second biggest threat to biodiversity' after habitat loss As experts … overlooked threat of invasive species to biodiversity, Carrie Madren gets a briefing …
Oxford Economics Professor and former head of Development Research at the World Bank, Paul Collier on reconciling romantic environmentalism and mainstream economics to help poor countries
… Community Affairs Editor READ MORE... NEWS Biodiversity 'invisible' in current economic … TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) report and doing for nature what … the threat of failing to conserve the world’s biodiversity – a cool £40 billion annually, …
An Ecologist cover story in 2005 prompted the making of an epic documentary, Up in Smoke, about slash and burn farming. Now the film finally airs on More4 on September 27th... Matilda Lee reports
… work, and who exactly does the 'saving'? NEWS Biodiversity crucial to lives of billions, …
Can lawyers really save the world? James Thornton from UK law firm ClientEarth believes they can - and is leading the way in achieving ecological justice
… UK government. It could take the economics of biodiversity seriously and reform GDP so that … cultural diversity at least as quickly as biodiversity. We are losing one human language …
With spring around the corner, why not take a walk around your local park or forest to get a closer look at - and photograph - local wildlife. Uploading pictures can win a school near you a green roof
… website , you will contribute to a national biodiversity identification project being run …
Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy Housing and Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics, on why nearly all homeowners can afford to insulate properly, and how to save energy on a budget
… roads that they require cause floods, affect biodiversity and use up land needed as a sink …
Former deputy editor of the Ecologist, Paul Kingsnorth, tells Matilda Lee why an obsession with CO2 has distracted environmentalists, and why we may already be beyond the point of no return...
… of farming can feed the world and safeguard biodiversity INTERVIEW Gathuru Mburu: Kenya … Belay talks about why protecting Ethiopia's biodiversity is so important and why he …
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...
… are growing electricity,' says Gareth Ellis, biodiversity officer in the Brecon Beacons …
Simon Birkett founded the cross-party Campaign for Clean Air in London (CCAL) in 2006 which aims to achieve World Health Organisation standards of air quality. He believes that if we comply with relevant laws Britain can show the world in 2012 how to successfully tackle air quality, climate change and sustainability issues...
… a 'low-cost' solution to air pollution and biodiversity loss in cities Native woods and …
Many cultures have lived in harmony with their ecosystems for centuries. The Gaia Foundation have made it their mission to listen and learn from them. It's time we did too
… Out of these networks emerged the African Biodiversity Network in 2002 to advocate … Belay talks about why protecting Ethiopia's biodiversity is so important and why he …
… soil erosion, water pollution and reduced biodiversity. Then there’s the high-energy … healthier, stronger soils, increased farm biodiversity and less pollution of water and …
You can turn it into everything from fuel to plastics. But will the surge in demand for sugar end up having a serious environmental impact?
… areas through burning, and the destruction of biodiversity. Given this, Mendonca argues that … and moving towards some standard of biodiversity protection. Yet when asked about …
It's the logo we all look for when buying furniture and wood products. But the Forest Stewardship Council has come in for some serious criticism. Matilda Lee looks at both sides of the argument
… growing - there is no such thing as forest biodiversity.' Plantations reviewed ‘Too many …
As adventure tourism exhausts its possibilities, what next?… A look at why we travel, its environmental impact, and where our final destination might be
… businesses must ‘contribute to the support of biodiversity conservation, including … natural protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value’. In 2009, businesses that …
From direct action campaigns to eco-village renewable energy systems, there are many ways to learn about and get involved in actions to prevent climate change
… level, by planting food gardens and promoting biodiversity. 10:10 campaigns to get people, …
Sheffield City Council signed a 25-year PFI highways’ maintenance contract with Amey, owned by Ferrovial, for £2.1bn in 2012. Now Amey is chopping down almost half of the city's street trees. Is this to cut costs, or are these trees 'dangerous, dead, diseased, dying, damaging or discriminatory'? PAUL MILES investigates
… not cutting mature, healthy trees: the rich biodiversity they support, the mental health …
Matilda Lee talks exclusively to the head of WWF Brazil about controversial beef and soya production, the REDD mechanism and deforestation, as well as the wider environmental challenges facing the emerging economic powerhouse
… to perceive that we are the world's G1 of biodiversity. We need to use that asset - to …