Environment archive

Inspire
Jun
18

Celebrating Welsh Heroes

Profiling the finalists in tonight’s Inspire Wales Awards

St-Pierre-April-2011 (Photo courtesy of Peter Finch)
Jun
16

Edging the estuary

Peter Finch reports from a place where there is enough water to drown us all

Whitford Point Lighthouse
Jun
15

Why we like to be beside the sea

Richard Porch considers the blurred coastal edge, a place where eternal forces exist in daily friction with the tidal ebb and flow

Lantana with her one year old daughter, Shamsia. They're from Niger, a landlocked country in West Africa where one third of the population, including 3 million children, are facing hunger due to food shortages and rising prices
Jun
08

Tax dodgers prevent the world’s poor helping themselves

Lila Haines says the UK can lead in tackling the land, aid, tax and transparency issues that underpin global hunger

Alun Davies is Wales' first Minister with specific Cabinet responsibility for food
Jun
07

The gap between food from and for Wales

Peter Davies says this week’s IWA conference highlighted the need to connect Welsh produce with local markets

Fracking
Jun
05

We’ll keep a fracking welcome in the hillsides

Gareth Clubb finds that the Welsh Government is prioritising jobs in dirty rather than green sectors of the economy

Allotment
Jun
04

Urban foodies need more allotment land in Welsh capital

Steve Garrett outlines some practical steps that can localise greater provision of more sustainable food

Bishara with her grandmother Amina in the village of Barmil in Northeastern Kenya four months after she was first admitted to Save the Children’s stabilization centre for severely malnourished children
May
28

Small-scale farmers need help to hold on to their land

Greg Akall says there is an answer to hunger across the world if western governments are wiling to grasp it

Green-energy
May
26

Cool heads needed in a warming climate

Alun James says Wales has an opportunity to lead the way in the imperative to reduce carbon emissions

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