Foreign invaders are undertaking a siege of Britain’s waterways, leaving respectable domestic species reeling beneath their imported terror.

From the early 1960’s countries struggling with the challenge of maintaining their levels of food production against population growth embraced emergent technologies, technologies manufactured, for the most part, in developed countries from 1943 onwards.
The result? Swelling yields of basic food stuffs. Wheat yields, for example, grew from below 500kg per hectare to just under 3,000kg [...]

Glastonbury is the kingpin of summer festivals, but its hazy, hippie-riddled image has had to adjust in the last few years in order to reconcile its apparently well-intended ethos with the fact that pilling thousands of smoking, drinking, drug taking people into a field for a weekend can produce some rather negative consequences for the [...]

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is calling for a one year status review of the cactus ferrunginous pygmy owl which they fear should be on the endangered species list again. Some wildlife experts believe that the species should never have been taken off the list and that the pygmy owl needs the extra protection [...]

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has embraced a significant economic report released last week at the annual Convention on Biological Diversity, an conference organised by the United Nations in Germany.
The report, entitled The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), was produced as a result of a collaboration between the German government, the G8 and the [...]

Habitat loss and wildlife trade has led to a decline of approximately a third in species numbers in the last 35 years, according to the WWF for Nature. Climate change will negatively affect wildlife over the next 30 years.
Animal populations are recorded by WWF’s Living Planet Index. The Index tracks 4,000 species of birds, mammals, [...]

It is feared that two of our northernmost neighbours, Iceland and Norway, may have once again taken up their harpoons and waterproofs and headed out to sea in search of harmless fin and minke Whales, in order that their life may be ended and their spiritless meat exported over to Japan, according to Greenpeace.
The International [...]

The dreadful weather of 2007 has caused serious pollution on many of Britain’s beaches. Heavy storms swept sewage, street debris and animal waste down to the sea, resulting in 52 of the Good Beach Guide’s 500 excellent beaches losing their premier certification. In addition to this, the number of coastal areas that failed to meet [...]

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The demonstration was estimated to be 10,000 strong and comprised of 20 tones of free fish being distributed outside the ministry for Spanish agriculture. This attempt to increase support for the plight of the fisherman left hundreds of boats harbored in ports across the coast as their crews travelled to [...]

In the Amazonian city of Altamira, a large group of indigenous leaders gathered this week, in order to join forces in a protest against plans to build a hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the Amazon.
In order to build the immense Belo Monte dam on the Xingu river, large areas of rainforest are due to [...]