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 …
Technology firm becomes latest in line of high-profile departures after federation opposes efforts to reduce emissions
Apple quits Chamber of Commerce over climate denial Suzanne Goldenberg | 6th October 2009 News Science And Technology Climate Change Apple gennew.gif Technology firm becomes latest in line of …
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 …
Greenpeace's most recent green electrics guide shows that PC manufacturers are still not meeting their obligations in terms of phasing out toxic substances
Computer companies breaking promises on toxins The Ecologist | 7th July 2009 News Investigations Science And Technology Green Living Greenpeace Electronic Computer Mobile Phone PVC BFR Brominated …
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 …
Who says technology can’t be good for the environment? Rosie Spinks rounds up the apps that are making the planet a greener place to be
Five of the best…eco friendly mobile apps Rosie Spinks | 9th September 2011 Ethical Living Mobile Apps Apple Itunes Project Noah Science Home Energy Shopping Science And Technology holding.jpg Who …
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 …
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption…
The scandal of planned technological obsolescence Nick Kettles | 6th August 2008 News Consumption Waste Sustainability Landfill Consumerism Landfills Recycling Green Living Politics And Economics …
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 …
Costing £2.9 billion, the UK’s new police communication system Tetra has been described by one independent scientist as likely to cause ‘more civilian deaths than all the world’s terrorist organisations put together’
Revolt Jay Griffiths | 1st October 2004 News Tetra Police Officers Pito Headaches Radiation Electromagnetic Radiation Magnetic Fields Met Met Officers Barry Trower Risk Privacy Human Rights …
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 …
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 …
The US company has been singled out for its failure to remove dangerous chemicals from computers
Hewlett-Packard = Hazardous Products, says Greenpeace 28th July 2009 News Waste And Recycling Science And Technology Computers Greenpeace Chemicals computer.jpg HP has backtracked on pledges to …
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, …