Environment
Wedding couple feed 140 guests with food destined for landfill
Cherie Harris and James Mainwaring enlisted the help of food waste charity The Real Junk Food Project to create a menu made up entirely food heading for the bin
Paddleboarder captures the plastic in the ocean as she paddles around Mallorca
Catherine Friend, 28, from Norwich, become the first to travel around the entire coast of Mallorca
More than 90 million people worldwide ‘at risk of death by snakebite’
Lack of access to anti-venom to blame
Britain’s salt marshes ‘could disappear if greenhouse gases are not tackled’
And the vital ecological coastal areas in southern and eastern England face a high risk of loss by 2040
We don’t appreciate the scale of the decline of our oceans
Politicians are failing to appreciate the scale of decline of our oceans, Professor Callum Roberts told a Westminster conference this week. The Marine Conservation Biologist from the University of York, who is the author of ‘The Unnatural History of the Sea’, warned that it is remarkable that in the space of just one lifetime there has been a dramatic transformation in the fortunes of ocean life. "The oceans are not the same as they were", he said, adding that a simple policy shift is...
Shock photos show polar bear cubs play with plastic on remote Arctic island
The two young siblings were spotted toying with the large black object before putting it in their mouths.
Living in greener neighbourhoods ‘slows down ageing process – particularly for women’
Researchers found a link between neighbourhood green space and mental capacity after following 6,500 people in Britain for 10 years
The country’s first ‘newt officer’ has been appointed in a bid to save the dying out species
Indea Chawk will take up the job at Central Bedfordshire Council to help preserve the protected species.
Two species of whale may have been hunted to extinction in the Mediterranean
Ancient bones found at Roman archaeological sites reveal that two whale species have been lost from the Med