Another Friday found me participating in the Climate Strike protest of the town I study in. Another gathering of younger and older people. The same chants with the familiar warm-blooded passion of...
As someone who has been exploring the world’s most isolated wilderness regions for nearly half a century, I have some insight into the state of the planet and the human race’s current...
Parts of the world are succumbing to environmental degradation and Latin America is not escaping this. The fires of the Amazonia this year attracted much attention to the area, and many showed...
The actress Ellen Page, known worldwide for the films Juno and Inception, recently released a documentary that she directed and produced to raise awareness of one of the problems faced by the...
Public transport’s great, isn’t it? You can pay a few quid to a bus driver and she’ll take you across the city. Or you can get a train to the other end of the country and avoid the stress of...
There’s nothing quite like the passion with which a 16 year old can hold a belief. It is pure, it is unadulterated and it is uncompromising. And often, despite the way teenagers are accused of...
I don’t want to be writing about straws. I’m sick of talking about them. But we (disabled people) have been telling you (non-disabled people) that plastic straws are essential for some people for...
For most of the month of April, every time I turned onto the news or logged onto some social media platform, I saw something about Extinction Rebellion (or Brexit, but I think everyone has had it up...
In recent weeks large parts of northern Iraq and northeastern Syria have been consumed by flames. Tens-of-thousands of acres of croplands have been burned, threatening agriculture in both regions....
Whaling has been a major part of Japanese culture for well over 1,000 years. In times gone, an old Japanese proverb spoke to the efficiency of the practice: "There's nothing to throw away from a...
