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The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a charity which rescues and rehabilitates orphaned African elephants, is holding an exhibition of pictures taken by three of the world's most celebrated wildlife photographers - Joachim Schmeisser, Michael Nichols and Robert Carr-Hartley. The free show will be at the Royal Geographical Society in London from 6 to 10 September 2010

Social networking site under fire over intention to run giant new data centre mainly on coal-powered electricitySocial networking website Facebook is coming under unprecedented pressure from its users to switch to renewable energy. In one of the web's fastest-growing environmental campaigns, Greenpe

New research shows motorists no longer consider cyclists weirdy beardy Guardian readers - in fact, they envy usNews just in from the world of academia: cycling is no longer considered the preserve of the sort of hippies historically associated with this newspaper. It is even widely thought of as "co

Hawthorn Hive is a hotspot for butterflies, in every sense. We found 15 species on the wing and soon lost count of the number of individuals. I cannot recall seeing so many butterflies in such a small area and, without doubt, it's the warmth of this sheltered beach that's a key factor in their

Exclusive 'Skeptical Environmentalist' and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing worldThe world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge huma

Political action seems again improbable, but it remains more urgent than everClimate change now reveals itself on a weekly basis. Scientists this month identified a colony of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries both yellow fever and the dengue virus, in the Netherlands. This African insect had

The recent furore surrounding the rebuilding of the ancient stepping stones at the lower end of Dovedale at the behest of the nanny state reminds me that the line of equally ancient stepping stones on the river Derwent upstream of Hathersage were the subject of interference by the do-

With his new book, Danish scientist Bjørn Lomborg has become an unlikely advocate for huge investment in fighting global warming. But his answers are unlikely to satisfy all climate change campaignersFew statisticians can have inspired more passion than Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish academic who became

The Danish economist 'solutions' to climate change still don't address the real issue of CO2 warming the planetFor the last 40 years the American scholar and war critic Noam Chomsky has argued that there is a question missing in the perennial debates about whether the US should go to war against its

Former government chief scientist Sir David King, in the green corner, to take on arch-sceptic Lord Lawson in public showdownThe most prominent climate sceptic and the most vocal advocate of the cause in the UK are to take part in their first public debate on the subject.The "clash of the titans" wi

Ullock Pike towers tar black above as the cyclists start out from Overwater at midnight. Their lamps light the road ahead with Bassenthwaite Lake their next goal, followed by Derwentwater, Thirlmere, Ullswater and Brotherswater, each one arriving like clockwork as leader Barry Johnson, a local fitne

Charity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020European Union countries must drop their biofuels targets or else risk plunging more Africans into hunger and raising carbon emissions, according to Friends of the Earth (Fo

It's right to be anxious. To be completely fatly smugly relaxed about our problematic world is the definition of the Tory soulA basic British political division is not between left and right, or liberal and conservative, but between Schlegel and Wilcox. What separates the two families of EM Forster'

? Government to water down 2016 'zero carbon' target for new homes? Environmentalists call the move a 'travesty'One of the UK's most radical environmental policies - requiring all new homes from 2016 to be "zero carbon" ? is set to be scaled back amid pressure from the housebuilding industry.Builder

Cap-and-trade has had the perverse effect of subsidising politically dominant industries. We should try something elseThese days, it's hard to have inspiring Mr Chips moments when you teach climate change policy. My students at least seem increasingly demoralised by the tepid and technical nature of

As the new school year begins, it's worth thinking about getting an A for your uniformWhile the nation's kids mope into their cornflakes, the apparel trade gets disrespectfully excited about the start of the new school year, with feverish speculation over teen clothing, school uniform and sportswear

The Indian restaurateur on the secret behind the Otarian chainThe UK has a real affiliation to sustainable living and an advanced approach," says Delhi-born Radhika Oswal. To reward us she's opened two Otarian restaurants, serving delicious vegetarian fast food with the smallest carbon footprint ava

If governments and companies fail to behave responsibly, the stage could be set for an environmental, social and economic dystopiaMultinational companies are learning the hard way that they trample over social and environmental concerns at their peril. London-listed miner Vedanta Resources saw more

League table lists firms likely to succeed in a changing social and environmental futureEaga, a FTSE 350 company set up in 1990 to lead government-funded initiatives to improve conditions for poor people in energy-inefficient homes, has come top of the league table for ecological sustainability in t

The widespread ignorance of science reflects badly on a nation with a such a questing and inventive historyThe prospect of the Cultural Olympiad accompanying the London Olympics in two years' time fills me with an unreasonable sense of dread. The official website says it will be "a 12-week cultural