It may have billion-pound profits and gushing praise for technological innovation but Apple is increasingly in the spotlight over its labour rights and environmental record. Eifion Rees reports on the 'sweatshop brand'
Apple: the hidden costs of your iPad and iPhone Eifion Rees | 4th April 2011 News Apple Electronics Natural World China Chemicals apple.jpg Apple made record profits of £3.7 billion in the three …
How one group is restoring the lost lustre of England's fruit orchards, and why a landfill site turned out to be a blessing in disguise
… Saving our perry pears, plums and cider apples for the future Eifion Rees | 4th May … Trust manager Andy Davies. 'So if the cider apples get hit with disease, the perry pears … STUDY: sustainable uses for gluts of autumn apples An innovative Lottery-funded 'Scrumping …
Ben Whitford takes a look at the candidates for the next Mayor of New York City and asks if any of them can fill the green shoes of Bloomberg........
After Bloomberg, will the Big Apple stay green? Ben Whitford | 20th September 2013 News Politics liberty.jpg Will the next Mayor of New York think about the next 20 years, or just the next election? …
Is the light brown apple moth such a danger to crops both agricultural and financial that the US government will risk the health of its citizens to eradicate it? They spray, you pay, warns Claire Robinson
Moth balls Claire Robinson | 1st September 2008 News Moths Insecticides Crops Agriculture Spraying Pesticide Pesticides Pests And Pesticides Agribusiness Natural World moth_MAIN.jpg Is the light …
Soils are naturally alive with complex 'food webs' of micro-organisms that sustain plants with moisture and nutrients, making them good to eat. But once the biota have been blitzed with agro-chemicals under industrial farming regimes, it's our health that suffers. One more reason to grow, and eat, organic!
… White in his book, Grass, Soil, Hope , apples have lost 80% of their vitamin C. And …
A sea change in attitudes to consumption and deforestation is happening worldwide, but will it be enough to save rainforests, asks Andrew Mitchell
Why are we eating the Amazon? Andrew Mitchell | 24th June 2013 Other Natural World Food And Farming shopping.jpg A sea change in attitudes to consumption and deforestation is happening worldwide, but …
Want to find a way to enjoy the incredible landscapes of Ireland without leaving your carbon footprints all over them? There’s an app for that!
The Green Ireland travel app: the Emerald Isle just got greener Jeff Holman | 14th April 2011 Ethical Living Ireland Apps Travel Carbon Offsetting Natural World Green Living ireland-holding.jpg Want …
An open-air performance of La bohème in a Surrey park. Mimi is dying, her lover is distraught, the audience can hardly breathe for emotion. Puccini’s opera reaches its unbearably poignant climax…
… ‘our’ parakeets have a growing appetite for apples, pears, grapes, barley, cherries, … in Bedfordshire after spoiling many tons of apples. Oxford University’s Chris Butler says …
Your ideas for changing the world may be desperately important. But if you can't find a way to engage the interests of the people around you they may never take off, argues John-Paul Flintoff
… on the upside. That September, I collected apples from my apple tree and put them in a … street, telling our neighbours we had more apples than we could use, and would they like … neighbours seemed glad to take a handful of apples. A few months later, I sowed dozens of …
As the G20 meet in China this weekend, it's time for governments to finally get tough on the world's tax dodgers, write Dipti Bhatnagar & Sam Cossar-Gilbert. The missing tax revenues would be able to finance a 100% renewable electricity system covering half the planet by 2030 - a major step in raising living standards and tackling climate change.
G20: Dodged taxes could finance renewable power for world's poorest 50% Dipti Bhatnagar Sam Cossar-Gilbert | 2nd September 2016 Comment Energy Renewables Finance Politics Green Economy Corporations …
A study in Torbay is the first time i-Tree software has been used in the UK to establish the true value of the 'urban forest' and raises questions over the effectiveness of smaller trees in absorbing carbon and pollutants
Do smaller trees play any real role in tackling carbon and pollution? Chris Baker | 11th April 2011 News Tress I-Tree Carbon Dioxide Pollution Climate Change Natural World News treesleaves.jpg The …
China is attempting to pursue the same impossible path as the rest of the world: generating consumer demand and wealth without destroying its natural resources and the planet
China exports its environmental problems as consumer culture booms Gervase Poulden | 6th September 2011 News China Climate Change Natural World Asia china.jpg China is attempting to pursue the same …
In principle ancient woodland enjoys strong protection, but that's not how it works out on the ground, reports Sian Atkinson. HS2 alone threatens 82 ancient woods, and 440 are at risk nationwide. Hence the Woodland Trust's 'Enough is Enough' campaign ...
… this guidance. Valuation: comparing apples with ... ball point pens? But how are …
From birds to dragonflies and butterflies to bees, Hazel Sillver explains how to turn your garden into a haven for wildlife
Super nature: creating a wildlife garden Hazel Sillver | 22nd March 2011 Ethical Living Bees Butterflies Birds Dragonflies Gardening Wildlife Nature Plants Natural World Green Living garden.jpg From …
T.C. Boyle’s latest opus might be a bit of a bonkbuster but it makes a serious point about the threat posed by non-native species to the world’s ecosystems
When The Killing’s Done Jeff Holman | 7th April 2011 Reviews Books Ecosystems Biodiversity Novels Reviews Natural World when-the-killings-done.jpg T.C. Boyle’s latest opus might be a bit of a …
Environmentalist, democracy campaigner and Nobel laureate; Wangari Maathai led an extraordinary life but it's her overwhelming kindness and charm that I’ll always remember, says Ruth Styles
With the death of Wangari Maathai, the green movement has lost one of its greatest proponents Ruth Styles | 7th October 2011 Comment Wangari Maathai Green Belt Movement Africa Kenya Politics Society …
As Victorian eccentrics go, Frank Buckland was a prime specimen, writes Martin Spray. But this new book about his rich and remarkable life is much more than a collection of anecdotes about his extraordinary doings, his inordinate curiosity about the natural world, and the animals he kept - and ate: a stimulating companion for wet days, cold evenings and wakeful nights.
Frank Buckland: 'the man who ate the zoo' Martin Spray | 8th November 2016 Reviews Books Natural World History ate-zoo-cut.png As Victorian eccentrics go, Frank Buckland was a prime specimen, writes …
In China, pear trees have had to be pollinated by hand after bees were wiped out by industrial farming. Now FOE have launched a petition to get the UK government to help halt the decline in Britain's own bee population
… pollination of plants and crops, including apples, strawberries which are so important to …
David Cameron is gunning for a strong climate agreement in Paris this December, writes Dr Doug Parr. Meanwhile his government is doing all it can to undermine renewable energy and energy efficiency in the UK, and lock us into a high carbon, fossil-fuelled future. Can he really have it both ways?
David Cameron is losing the plot on climate change Doug Parr Greenpeace EnergyDesk | 16th July 2015 Comment Climate Change Energy Renewables Politics UK Transport cameron-wef-cut.jpg David Cameron is …
Green leader Natalie Bennett may have been lost for words on LBC yesterday, writes Adam Ramsay - but at least she doesn't charge £25,000 for a speech or £10,000 to have dinner with you. Unlike Jack Straw, Malcolm Rifkind and other politicians so deeply mired in corporate influence that they can't even see what they have done wrong.
… not because they highlight a few bad apples, but because they are a window into a …
Personnel at the EPA have been heavily impacted by the ongoing shutdown, leading some commentators to question the necessity of the government agency post-shutdown. Ben Whitford reports....
Could America do without the Environmental Protection Agency? Ben Whitford | 16th October 2013 News US Government Politics EPA epa-logo.jpg Would the U.S. environment suffer if the EPA was shutdown …
I think that pigs everywhere are dropping semantic pearls before human swine who labour under the delusion that all pigs can do is go ‘oink’
… old, and this one was clearly happy to do so. Apples, pears, grapes, bread, cake, porridge, … old, and this one was clearly happy to do so. Apples, pears, grapes, bread, cake, porridge, …
Dr Tony Whitbread tells the Ecologist why, despite serious declines in much of Britain's wildlife, he remains optimistic that nature conservation can provide the tools to reverse these negative trends......
… - lose pollinators today and we lose apples, and many other food crops, tomorrow. …
Hoover accepted human society for what it was: rich in resources but nevertheless imperfect, unpigly. And he discovered that a solitary pig is a sad thing, almost as useless as a bee without a hive.
… old, and this one was clearly happy to do so. Apples, pears, grapes, bread, cake, porridge, … old, and this one was clearly happy to do so. Apples, pears, grapes, bread, cake, porridge, …