Environment

The UK’s leading vegan and farmed animal charities and NGOs are coming together in London today to discuss challenges and explore opportunities in the movement to help it become more successful. Leaders from ten organisations will meet to discuss their plans, how they might learn from each other and, most importantly, how they can support each other and work together in progressing veganism and meat reduction in the UK and beyond. Director of ProVeg UK Jimmy Pierson said: “There are...

It was a green and pleasant land just three months ago, but now the UK is brown

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

Catherine Friend, 28, from Norwich, become the first to travel around the entire coast of Mallorca

Lack of access to anti-venom to blame

And the vital ecological coastal areas in southern and eastern England face a high risk of loss by 2040

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...

The two young siblings were spotted toying with the large black object before putting it in their mouths.

Researchers found a link between neighbourhood green space and mental capacity after following 6,500 people in Britain for 10 years