In Pooh's footsteps
Guardian Unlimited | 09 Apr 2011
Ashdown Forest, just 40 miles from London, has been enticing visitors for years. But its most famous inhabitant was a bear of very little brain. Literary Britain has many sacred groves. There's Wordsworth's Lake District and the Brontë sisters' Yorkshire. You cannot visit Bath without reminders of...
 England | Environmental Awareness

The week in wildlife
Guardian Unlimited | 08 Apr 2011
Baby wombats, Scottish wildcats and spawning toads are among this week's pick of images from the natural world
 United Kingdom | Environmental Awareness

Sir David Attenborough's TV life: the BBC looks back
Guardian Unlimited | 07 Apr 2011
Retrospective expected to be aired next year will mark 60 years since the naturalist joined the corporation in 1952. The BBC is planning a TV retrospective of the work of Sir David Attenborough next year in a move that may signal the twilight of the naturalist's career. The series, which has the working title Life Stories from a series of Radio 4 lectures he has been giving since 2009, will look back on his life's work to mark 60 years since he joined the BBC in 1952.
 United Kingdom | Environmental Awareness

Your Green shoots photographs
Guardian Unlimited | 06 Apr 2011
We asked for your pictures of the arrival of spring, when longer daylight hours and more wildlife on show means nature photographers can go to town.
 England | Environmental Awareness

Letters: Secrets, lies and why we need scrutiny of the nuclear industry
Guardian Unlimited | 06 Apr 2011
John Vidal (Nuclear's green cheerleaders forget Chernobyl at our peril, 2 April) and George Monbiot (Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power, 22 March) may compete on your letters page (5 April) but both miss the essential truth. Civil nuclear power is shrouded in the UK not to protect facts from terrorists but because it has well understood risks and is captured under the Official Secrets Act.
 United Kingdom | Environmental Awareness | Education

Richard Branson unveils deep-sea submarine plans
Reuters | 05 Apr 2011
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, known for such exploits as trying to balloon around the world, said on Tuesday he planned to explore the deepest parts of the world's oceans with a jet-like submarine.
 Environmental Awareness | Education

Do cyclists pose a threat to people with disabilities?
Guardian Unlimited | 05 Apr 2011
A Surrey town has banned cycling in the pedestrianised centre after lobbying from groups representing people with disabilities. Cycling England has come to an end and the backpedalling on some of its successful schemes has already started. Woking, a commuter town in Surrey, last week decided to ban cycling in the centre of town for much of the day. Until now Woking has done a good job as a cycling town.
 England | Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation | Health | Public Policy

Send us your ideas for stopping radiation leaks
Guardian Unlimited | 05 Apr 2011
We're looking for your views on the best ways to make the plant safe again. The latest ideas to prevent the escape of radiation from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are to discharge 11,500 tonnes of contaminated water into the Pacific and plug leaks with an absorbent polymer mixed with sawdust and shredded newspaper.
 United Kingdom | Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation

Satellite eye on Earth
Guardian Unlimited | 04 Apr 2011
White dunes, 'celestial' glaciers and the aftermath of the Japan disaster were among the images captured by Nasa satellites last month
 Environmental Awareness

New reality show: Millions watch bald eagles nesting
Reuters | 03 Apr 2011
A new reality show has gone viral on the Internet featuring a life and death struggle, a love story and a birds eye view of -- an eagle family.
 Scotland | Biodiversity | Biodiversity Conservation | Climate Change | Environmental Awareness