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The dispersal of tiny sea creatures in Antarctica has alerted scientists to the vulnerability of Earth's ice sheetsBryozoans make unlikely prophets of doom. Nevertheless, scientists believe these tiny marine creatures, which live glued to the side of boulders, rocks and other surfaces, reveal a dist

Industrial farming causing food prices to rise

Prof. Bob Watson comments on embedded emissions.

Mink set free by animal activists and salmon on their arduous journey upstream - the pick of this week's images from the natural world

Photography adds another dimension to wild food foraging - not just for identification purposes but as an art form? Send your photos of nature's harvest to our Green shoots Flickr groupThere are as many reason for the current resurgent rise in enthusiasm for all things wild food and foraging-related

The annual wildlife spectacle is under a cloud thanks to plans to construct a road across the Serengeti

Why is human well-being improving globally when our environmental woes appear to be worsening all the time?We hear lots of concerned chatter these days - not least, here on this site - about peak oil, peak water, deforestation, resource depletion and the like, but a popular riposte offered by those

Clive Chatters, chairman of the New Forest national park authority, pays tribute to the work of amateur naturalists in the recently published symposium Biodiversity in the New Forest.Their observations and recording underpin the work of the professionals whose research helps to shape conservation po

After violence in Africa and protests in Egypt, Serbia and Pakistan, the UN are to urge action on the rising cost of foodThe UN has called an urgent meeting on rising global food prices in an attempt to head off a repeat of the 2008 crisis that sparked riots around the world.Seven people, including

Scottish shellfish firm is to move south to the warmer waters of Lyme Bay, where it aims to produce up to 10,000 tonnes a yearPlans for the largest offshore mussel farm in Europe, to be set up in Lyme Bay, were announced today.The company behind the project hopes it will produce up to 10,000 tonnes

? ExxonMobil discussed politics of BP takeover with the White House? BP's value had once dropped by more than $100bn, since 20 April BP said today that it was a fortnight away from finally sealing the rogue well in the Gulf of Mexico - potentially triggering bids from rivals for a company whose mar

The internet giant's New York headquarters have fallen prey to a city-wide outbreak of bed bugsThey are reddish-brown, smaller than an apple seed, have a taste for human blood and when they bite they itch like hell. And now the onward march of the common bedbug has extended into cyberspace.The searc

These stunning images from August include Moscow covered in smoke, heavy rains in Pakistan and plankton blooms changing the colour of the North Atlantic ocean

The Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh explains in his new book how a Buddhist approach could benefit ecology? Zen and the art of protecting the planetThere is something extraordinarily child-like about the 84-year-old Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.To portray him out of context could make him appear

It is time to go blackberry picking, and I have already got stained fingers from this black, juicy, wild fruit which I enjoy gathering and then turning into puddings. The ripe wheat in the fields has been cut down and is now being carted away, leaving confused rabbits and field mice in bewilderment

The star of an Oscar-winning film about dolphin hunting in Japan delivered a petition to the country's US embassy calling for an end to the practice. The petition was signed by 1.7 million people from 151 countries.