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London Mayor Ken Livingstone has partially built his career on making London more environmentally friendly.

Piccadilly Circus in central London

He’s made a few missteps in tackling environmental problems, such as the recent law he was promoting that would have hurt on bike use in the city. But today, in the

Every month or so there comes a story of scientists who suggest we fight global warming in new and occasionally ridiculous ways.

Last month it was scientists promoting an extra shiny version of soya beans, the leaves of which would reflect the sun’s light and help cool the earth. Before that, it was

It looks like males will soon be irrelevant to the survival of the human race.

Scientists at the University of Newcastle have managed to create human sperm cells using a female embryonic stem cell.

Islands and beaches ringed by coral reefs draw thousands of tourists a year.

But it seems that the tourists attracted by the coral’s beauty and animal diversity may be inadvertently destroying

After posting yesterday, I decided that potato quiche was a bit dull so decided to make Hungarian Plum Dumplings instead. These are basically

I have a serious question for scientific researchers.

Robot swarm!

Why is it that so many amazing new scientific discoveries end up being applied to distinctly creepy sounding robotics projects?

Last week we kicked off our new series covering environmental issues throughout history.

Our first post covered King Edward I’s decision to ban coal burning in 1306. We’re now travelling 1500 years backwards and halfway across planet Earth to look at the environmental issues and ideas of another famous

A flame retardant that is thought to be a carcinogen is showing up in some Tasmanian devils, whose population has been devastated in the past decade by a deadly and contagious form of cancer.

You may remember Environmental Graffiti’s past report on the epidemic among the devils. The outbreak is so bad that

The Galapagos Islands are world famous for their environment.

Who is massacring sea lions on the Galapagos Islands? Image by Carlos Ponte

But now it seems that the islands’ ecology and environment are being threatened by their own growing popularity, alien animal species, even

For Lent this year, we are giving up eating.

Well almost. We can eat root vegetables, apples, flour, dairy and some