Politicians deny the existence of isolated tribes like the Mashco-Piro as oil, gas and logging exploration increasingly encroaches on their forest territory
Who are the Mashco-Piro tribe and can they still hope to stay 'uncontacted'? David Hill | 1st February 2012 News Forest Natural World Tribe Rainforest Logging image-1 (480x360).jpg The isolated …
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
… the vast majority of the population using bicycles for transport. Today there are more …
In the first of a two-part sport and environment special, Isabella Kaminski reports on how habitat damage, waste, nanotechnology and persistent organic pollutants are increasingly linked to our favourite outdoor pursuits
How the boom in climbing, biking and sailing is costing the earth Isabella Kaminski | 28th July 2011 News Pollution Waste Clothing Sports Natural World Investigations Chemicals Nanotechnology …
Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discuss
… you say. Then maybe I’m not alone. Sales of bicycles, by the way, are apparently booming. …
With human beings about to become a predominantly urban species, Dan Box asks whether cities can ever be sustainable.
Greening Cities Dan Box | 1st April 2003 News Sustainable Cities Urbanization China Copenhagen Brazil Population Energy Conservation Community Society Local Economies Community Population Carbon …
When the Cornish village of Boscastle was devastated by flooding in 2004, few hoped to do any more than salvage the town. Today, it is flourishing, thanks to a new found awareness - and respect - for the power of Nature
Boscastle - after the flood, a green future Paul Miles | 21st July 2009 News Natural World Green Living Flooding boscastle.jpg When the Cornish village of Boscastle was devastated by flooding in …
In an exclusive extract from Wild Swimming, author Daniel Start looks back at his best-ever wild dips
Best of British: the three spots you have to swim in Daniel Start | 8th September 2011 Ethical Living Wild Swimming Herefordshire Hampshire Scotland Travel Natural World holding.jpg In an exclusive …
A host of communal vegetable gardens are springing up in the concrete heart of East London. Ben Willis meets the woman coaxing life from the urban jungle
CASE STUDY: growing fruit and veg in the city Ben Willis | 3rd March 2009 Activism Food And Gardening Case Study Network Hackney Communal Vegetable Garden Farm East London Sustainable Community …
Economist Herman E Daly argues that our future depends on a new economic model, one that needs to be defined by the dynamic balance – the steady state – of the natural world upon which it depends.
… may supplant factory farms, the proportion of bicycles to hummers may increase, and …