A partnership between a non-profit organization and one of the world’s leading timber companies has doubled the amount of certified tropical rain-forest in the Congo Basin, ensuring that the area will be protected from irresponsible logging practices and deforestation in future years.
The Congo Basin covers 700,000 square miles and stretches over the boundaries of six [...]

In recent years, hardwood floors have come to be a popular aspect of remodelling in homes and businesses. Hardwood is easy to clean, hygienic in comparison to carpet, and looks beautiful. Although the trend is making houses across the world look prettier from the inside, it’s killing our environment on the outside.
Consumers are often in [...]

The British power company, Drax, has launched a £50 million project to replace 10% its coal usage with biomass particles. The company is planning to mix wood chips, sunflower husks and grasses with coal in order to save several millions in carbon dioxide emissions.
Officials from Drax have signed a deal with Alstom to build a [...]

Anyone who has ever been splattered beneath a parcel of plummeting droppings has every right to shake their fists to the sky this week, as it has been announced that urban Pigeon numbers have almost doubled in the last twelve years. Whilst our chip-eating, grey feathered friends have been enjoying this population boom, so too [...]

Natural England has today published its first audit of the country’s natural environment. The seven chapter report, entitled the State of the Natural Environment, focuses on the nation’s landscapes, biodiversity, and human interaction with those spaces, and concludes that the natural environment is ‘much less rich than 50 years ago.’
Dr Helen Philips, Chief executive of [...]

Oil prices closed this evening at $126.29 (£64) a barrel in New York, the highest since trading began, and almost double the sum that each barrel cost in August of last year.OPEC, which contributes over 40 percent of the world’s oil, announced this March that it will not increase production, whilst Saudi Arabia has announced [...]

The concentration of CO2 levels in the atmosphere has reached a record high according to new figures that renew suspicions that climate change is rapidly spinning out of control.
At Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, scientists who have been studying climate change recently found the CO2 levels in the atmosphere are now standing at 387 parts [...]

Spring has finally sprung and that means digging out the supplies and dusting away the cobwebs. It’s that time of year again; time for spring cleaning.
This year, instead of using toxic cleaners that release potentially harmful fumes why not be resourceful and green? You don’t need to buy expensive non-toxic cleaning products because you probably [...]

The green sports that Morgan promised to produce three years ago, is finally set to launch this year. A team from Morgan Motor Company and a selection of universities, plus some helpful funding from the British government, have made the “zero emission” sports car a reality. The LifeCar will be hydrogen-run, fuel-cell powered electric car. [...]

The need to develop environmentally friendly housing has become ever more pressing in the past few years. Buildings consume 40% of the world’s total energy and 16% of the water supply. In order to reduce emissions, many people believe it is imperative to learn how to build houses that absorb energy, are durable, and provide [...]