Environment archive

Sometimes it isn't about running out of food, oil, electricity or medicine. It is about it becoming to expensive to afford.
May
20

End of cheap oil will force lifestyle change

Judy Ong explores how part of population growth is down to people living longer

Tranquil evening on Traeth Beach, looking across the Porthmeirion peninsula in Gwynedd  (Photo: John Briggs)
May
01

Sacred landscape and Sustainable Development

Cynog Dafis argues that a circle can be squared on green growth

Map broadly outlining the main potential resource development areas for wind, wave and tidal energy in the Bristol Channel (
Apr
28

Technology cannot tackle climate change

Calvin Jones says Wales can lead the way in replacing economic growth with the notion of useful work

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Apr
10
Llyr Huws Gruffydd at the livestock market in Mold, Flintshire
Mar
19
Fukushima
Mar
12

Anglesey’s Wylfa B last of the line

Carl Clowes says the high electricity prices demanded by the nuclear industry are being overtaken by renewable techologies

Ken Skates AM
Mar
11

Keeping the Welsh lights on

Ken Skates considers how Wales must now craft a new future in low carbon energy generation

The dark season most often affords defining, visionary glimpses of gleaming ridge against grey cloud
Mar
02

Why winter is the time to savour Snowdon

Jim Perrin says the colder months are best to experience the atmosphere and grace of our highest mountain

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Feb
26
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Feb
17

Bottling out with too much water

Richard Porch makes a compelling case for re-introducing public drinking fountains