A trip with Plastic Whale isn’t about sightseeing. Inspired by the plastics crisis, it offers the chance to help clean the city’s waterways, in a boat made from recycled material
Tag Archives: environment
Belize bans oil activity to protect its barrier reef
Decision hailed as huge step forward that will safeguard both the marine environment and the country’s lucrative dive tourism industry
Chadar, India: The end of the Ice Road – in pictures
A project to document communities undergoing irreversible change took these authors to the frozen Zanskar river, which connects Ladakh and Zanskar in northern India.
South Australia to get $1bn solar farm and world’s biggest battery
System will include 3.4m solar panels and 1.1m batteries, with operations set to begin by end of 2017
El Salvador makes history as first nation to impose blanket ban on metal mining
Campaigners celebrate victory for ‘water over gold’ after country unaninmously ushers through historic bill to end all forms of metal mining
UK breaks new solar energy record on sunny March weekend
Amount of electricity demanded by homes and businesses one afternoon was lower than it was during night for first time ever
Murder in Pondoland: how a proposed mine brought conflict to South Africa
The death of activist Sikhosiphi Rhadebe in the Eastern Cape has not stopped local communities opposing plans for a titanium mine that threatens important lands and a way of life, reports Yale Environment 360
Europe poised for total ban on bee-harming pesticides
Draft regulations seen by the Guardian reveal the European commission wants to prohibit the insecticides that cause ‘acute risks to bees’
A Brittany eco-home with extra gîte and yurt – in pictures
A geobiologist has built this complex of buildings out of eco-friendly materials around a wooden main house, with scope for tourist rentals
Heathrow aims to make third runway carbon neutral
Plan also targets local air and noise pollution but critics say long-term solutions to environmental challenges are no closer to reality
