Whether you’re a master gardener known for your brimming spring gardens or just a beginner starting a few small plants indoors, you can create a custom eco-friendly greenhouse made from reclaimed materials that’s suited to your needs. These 10 DIY greenhouse ideas range from beautiful and complex freestanding greenhouses made of reclaimed windows to super-simple, practically free miniature greenhouses made of CD spindles and plastic bottles.

FOOD Lovers Market in Noordhoek, Cape Town is the first retailer in South Africa to truly invest towards a zero waste solution by adopting a composting method which breaks down cooked food waste, helping to minimise the strain on overflowing landfills.

Scientists at the Stanford University Global Climate and Energy Project have proposed taking the global warming fight to a whole new level.

Gland, Switzerland, February 2013 – Nineteen percent of the world’s reptiles are estimated to be threatened with extinction, states a paper published today by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in conjunction with experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC).

 



Two new fracking reports came out earlier this week, and they reveal some serious new cracks in the booming natural gas industry.

WWF joined forces with Coca-Cola to launch Arctic Home, a new three-year project to raise awareness and funds to help conserve the home of the polar bear and create a positive future for the Arctic.

Mushrooms may be deadly or delicious, beautiful or bland, magical or mundane but one thing’s certain: the fungus among us are anything but anonymous! These 10 strange & beautiful mushrooms span the imagination while spanning the globe when it comes to location.

It’s an easily forgotten necessity of energy production: the billions of cubic meters (BCM) of freshwater that is necessary for cooling, irrigating, fracking, and other uses. This is water that is not returned to the water basin for future use — it’s temporarily lost to evaporation, consumption, or pollution.

Residents living near an e-waste recycling site in China face elevated risks of lung cancer, according to a recent study co-authored by Oregon State University researchers.

Sleeping in a transparent bubble, a system of fabric tunnels, a hanging tipi or a tent that clings dangerously to the side of a mountain is infinitely more exciting than spending the night in your bed. These 15 smart, amazing, fun and bizarre temporary shelter options might just inspire you to start planning your next camping trip.

At a most basic level, the idea of protecting areas for nature and the benefits that brings is pretty simple. Where it gets tricky is when there are competing interests in the form of human activities.

Great news. South Korea has dropped its controversial plans to resume ‘scientific’ whaling – after worldwide condemnation and petitioning – saying that it now intends to carry out ‘non-lethal’ research instead.