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Image description: plastic waste floating in the ocean by a small fish The earliest investigations of microplastics focused on microbeads found in personal-care products and pellets of virgin plastic that can escape before they are moulded into objects, as well as on fragments that slowly erode from discarded bottles and other large debris. These are […]
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Image description: An offshore wind farm The announcement of the government’s uncharacteristic success in raising £10 billion to fund green projects in the UK in the form of “green gilts” is one that is welcomed. Many schemes that benefit the environment on both a small and large scale simply require the necessary funding: a gap […]
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Image description: A picture of a rainforest From 6th September, amidst Extinction Rebellion’s two week “Impossible Rebellion”, young people from WTFWWF and XR Youth began occupying WWF UK’s headquarters in Woking. They asked WWF UK to take part in a Zoom call with Indigenous communities from Tanzania, Cameroon and Kenya and demanded WWF UK to […]
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Image description: a sign at a climate change protest On 2nd August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark report on the planet’s current environmental state, and as ever, it was not good news. In the first report of its kind since 1990, 234 scientists collaborated to reach the same damning […]
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Image description: A pond in a moor Peatlands are remarkably valuable ecosystems when treated well and extremely damaging when not. Young activists and local communities, including in Oxford, are fighting to restore and protect what has been perilously overlooked, while the government slowly catches up. Peatlands are a type of wetland ecosystem found all over […]
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Walking, without a doubt, has become my salvation. I’ll admit, I’ve always been a particular fan. I’m one of those freaks who not only willingly chose to do Gold DofE (a British award scheme that culminates in an excruciating, often very wet, 4-day hike up and down the best ‘wild country’ the UK has to […]
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Tree Protection campaigners have faced forceful evictions from Euston Square Gardens camp and extensive underground tunnels – but remain steadfast. It has been a tumultuous and challenging past few weeks for campaigners, self-titled ‘Tree Protectors’, who are camped at Euston Square Gardens to protest against the construction of the HS2 rail network. The rapidly-evolving situation […]
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When measuring the success of national economies, the metrics used to do so take into account a wide range of factors: physical and human capital, economic growth, overseas investment, just to name a few. However, up until recently, the role of nature has been underplayed and barely gets a mention in basic economic theory. A […]
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I’m a city girl through and through. I was born and raised in Greater London and spent most of my free time hanging out with friends in my local town; going to the cinema and stuffing our faces at Pizza Hut were the usual weekend activities. Rarely did I venture out into the countryside, namely […]
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From mythology to modern scientific expeditions, the ocean has always been a source of both mystery and knowledge. Research has begun looking to the ocean more often to answer our toughest questions, from utilizing marine animals in medicinal breakthroughs to the newest point of focus: floating cities. Otherwise known as ‘Seasteading’, the concept of sustainable […]
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