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Armed with just a good idea and big dose of enthusiasm you can transform a bleak area into a mini orchard. Plus, the best way to approach a station manager...

In the latest blog the Atlantic Rising team look at how rising sea levels are poisoning local water sources in Western Ghana

Exploring the lives and behaviour of our close ancestors and the threats they face, this book makes a compelling case for their protection

Following our exclusive investigation, Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade

Greening your home can save you energy and money as well as making it healthier and lowering its carbon footprint

The world’s first carbon trading scheme should be used as a model for global cap-and-trade says leading American economist

Insulating your home will save energy and money. This simple guide will show you where to start and what material to use

In this month's newsletter we print a special, two-part investigation in jatropha biofuels, look at the horrors of the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, examine the possibility of a trade war as a result of climate change policy, and ask whether we are paying too high an environmental price for the convenience of the Pill. To download, login and scroll to the bottom of the page...

Investors want oil giants to answer questions on their involvement in the environmentally damaging extraction of oil from tar sands

Climate change activists are regrouping post-Copenhagen – and some are reasserting their radical roots

While the UN is celebrating the international year of biodiversity conservation groups in the UK worry that a rising number of isolated populations are in danger of becoming extinct

London Fashion Week's ethical show 'estethica' is more than just a niche offering: it is changing the landscape, and language, of the fashion industry

The native black poplar tree is now rarer than the giant panda with only 2,500 specimens remaining in Britain. The Crown Estate's conservation program aims to reinstate them

Workers are dying in conditions described as 'hell on earth' yet the west's shipping industry continues sending ships to the country for disposal

Brazil becomes second biggest biotech grower after the US as industry predicts big increases in GM soybean, maize and cotton production in 2010