Foreign invaders are undertaking a siege of Britain’s waterways, leaving respectable domestic species reeling beneath their imported terror. In an attempt to raise awareness about the problem of non-domestic species in the waterway system British Waterways- the people in charge of maintaining the country’s waterway system – have produced a list of the twelve animals [...]

We live in the age of the celebrity endorsement, so much so that it is often impossible not to think about a certain footballer when shopping for our latest pair of pants, or a certain model when lathering our scalps with a particular brand of shampoo.
All this is, of course, well and good, but there [...]

Two non-profit organisations in the United States, alongside the private research Duke University in North Carolina, have spent the last three years monitoring the actions of gas and oil companies in the western Amazon, and have now completed a comprehensive map covering the area that shows the alarming extent to which the corporations have plans [...]

It’s a rare business plan that involves visiting the pale severity of the Arctic, but for those companies that do send their employees into the wilderness the return can be sizable. For these companies it’s not what’s visible in this fragile, remote and utterly unique portion of the world, but rather what is hidden, beneath [...]

Consumers worldwide have been feeling the pinch recently. Food prices have risen as the honeymoon period of cheap oil that allowed for the years of overabundant production in the west has ended. No more are the days of milk lakes and corn mountains. The days of food being so cheap that almost a third of [...]

Imagine your wedding anniversary or your birthday falling a week earlier this year than it did forty years ago. This was the example that Mark Avery, the RSPB’s conservation director, gave to the BBC’s Today programme this morning to highlight the significance of a new report showing that many of the UK’s garden birds, from [...]

It’s easy to take our skin for granted. Like long time squatters in some fantastic, magical mansion, we have forgotten how truly wonderful our skin is, but if you want to say a hearty ‘Thanks!’ to your skin, you might want to invest a little time and money in a perfect organic or natural skincare [...]