What are mangroves? These salt-tolerant trees grow around coastal waters in the tropics and subtropics. Ranging from shrubs to majestic trees, they have extraordinary adaptations to cope with salt water and saturated soils. These include foamy aerenchyma tissue in root systems to…

Short answer: No, not yet, BUT this is a question of when. Let me break it down first by giving some context to the issue of ocean plastics. The last hundred years are attributed as the main period of ocean plastic pollution….

As many people are becoming more aware of our impact on the planet, in this blog we are going to look into how fortunate we are to be able to get lots of natural products & ingredients from tropical rainforests, and how…

Spring is a brilliant time of year, when the flowers start blooming and the lambs start skipping across the fields! We can do our bit to support wildlife at this time of year too, so here are some ways to give nature…

What does the phrase ‘green finance’ mean to you, if anything? A colleague made this for the finance team recently (I think he takes orders, if you’re interested), so perhaps this is his interpretation of ‘green finance’? There are three of us…

Deforestation is when forests and woodlands are purposefully cleared, usually resulting in permanent change to the habitat and land-use of the area. The main driver is usually space for farming and agriculture, though others include logging, mining, settlements and wildfires. Deforestation impacts…

Earth is often referred to as ‘the water planet’ which is understandable from satellite images taken from space where the blue water looks vastly larger than land. Of Earth’s water more than 99% of it is inaccessible for consumption by humans and…

Oceans cover over 70% of our planet, teeming with life from microscopic plankton to some of the largest Cetacea ever to exist. Yet beneath the waves, our seas are under immense pressure, and one of the biggest threats they face today is…

Ever encountered a snake and weren’t sure what you were looking at? Well, no longer! Here’s a quick guide to the native snakes you might find in the UK (there’s only 3 so shouldn’t take too long to learn!).     First…

It is widely recognized that we are living in an era characterized by rapid biodiversity loss and rising extinction rates – the Anthropocene. The most recent IPBES report estimated that 1 million species globally are currently at risk of extinction. But who…