More than 33,000 tonnes of manure are produced in the UK every day by intensive pig and poultry farms – enough to fill 2,500 double-decker buses

Walking into a windowless warehouse, I was overwhelmed.

It was early morning, and a tractor was pulling a plough. Back and forth it went, ploughing its lonely furrow. 

Some supermarkets are failing to check whether imported food they sell has been produced with routine antibiotic use – a major factor in the growing global crisis of antibiotic-resistant superbugs

‘Enough is enough’ is a powerful phrase used by many to protest against situations they find intolerable

Extraordinary coming together of farmers, campaigners, food industry figures and experts in the EU should result in around 300 million pigs, laying hens, calves, geese, ducks and quail no longer being kept in cages every year

Rising temperatures are reducing the number of places where the Winter Olympics can be held, while making the summer games dangerously hot for athletes

The use of palm products to feed industrial animal agriculture is pushing the Sumatran elephant to the brink of extinction

Like so many top sporting events, this year’s Paris Olympic Games has had plenty of highs and lows.

Humanity’s destruction of the natural world is bringing us into contact with new species – and new viruses

The current rate of extinction of species is up to 1,000 times higher than the average for the past ten million years

Deep into election season and we’ve all been inundated with messages from politicians of every persuasion trying to woo our vote. Big issues include the cost of living, health, and the economy.

Sitting on a child’s bed are rows of brightly coloured animals. A blue lizard. A golden lion alongside a purple monkey.

In Betty’s Bay, South Africa, one of the world’s wildlife celebrities, an African penguin, was busy shaking herself free from the sea. 

For Philip Lymbery, the author of ‘Farmageddon’, ‘The Dead Zone’ and ‘Sixty Harvests Left’, we have two choices: change how we feed ourselves or prepare for extinction.

A ban on commercial fishing for sandeels – on which puffins depend – is being challenged by the European Union

The mind of an octopus can be compared to a three-year-old child’s. Are we really going to trap them in barren tanks of water while they await slaughter for food?

Smallholders like the late Osvalinda Pereira face a campaign of deadly threats and harassment from big companies that produce feed for animals in Europe and China

Groundbreaking plans by the Scottish Government would end the ‘cage age’ of farming for good

Growing crops to feed bugs for humans to eat does not make sense, particularly when insecticides are wiping out hundreds of thousands of species

Growing crops to feed bugs for humans to eat does not make sense, particularly when insecticides are wiping out hundreds of thousands of species

When naturalist David Attenborough met Poppy, a young mountain gorilla, and her family, their future looked precarious. But the story turned out to be a source of hope

After almost 20 years as CEO, I’ve learned that the way you lead constantly has to change. I’ve come to see too that embracing kindness is a much-needed strength.

Nitrogen pollution is a large contributor to the triple planetary crisis of climate, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

Old MacDonald has a lot to answer for.

Beavers and landowners can sometimes come into conflict but these situations can be managed

Emergency approval for a bee-harming pesticide by the UK Government has once again sent shock waves through the countryside

Thirty years after protests against live animal exports, the UK is on the cusp of making a historic change

Meat that is cultivated from stem cells in a bioreactor has the potential to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

At least 158 countries, including the UK, EU, and US, agreed that tackling climate change means that food consumption and production ‘must urgently adapt and transform’

I was taking the night train to Nanyang in China's Henan province and spent the last hour before I reached my destination looking at mile upon mile of maize, or corn as it’s often known.

Up to a third of greenhouse gas emissions globally are caused by food and the way it is produced

Refrigerated lorries mean there is no need to send animals on 60-hour journeys to be slaughtered

It might sound like a space-saving idea, but more than half of the UK’s cropland is devoted to feeding farm animals kept in cages

In September 2019, the International Space Station was undertaking an extraordinary mission: to produce the first beef in space.

It might sound like a space-saving idea, but more than half of the UK’s cropland is devoted to feeding farm animals kept in cages

Insects are fascinating, trees make us happy and sea eagles are just magical

Insects are fascinating, trees make us happy and sea eagles are just magical

Nearly 800 million people are going hungry even though there is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone

Highly pathogenic Bird flu continues to rage through poultry farms and wild birds alike.

Like the Scottish uplands, England’s chalk streams have become an iconic destination for many countryside lovers

Raising animals intensively for food is the biggest source of animal cruelty on the planet. It also happens to be a major emitter of greenhouse gases, responsible for up to 37 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Pesticides and the ripping up of hedgerows and flower meadows has turned much of our countryside into a wildlife desert in recent decades

Meat grown from stem cells promises to emit fewer greenhouse gases than traditional agriculture

Getting up early is full of rewards as the natural world activates and clear thoughts are unlocked

The Conservatives had promised in their manifesto to stop the barbaric practice of sending young calves and other animals on horrific, over-long journeys abroad

Food is responsible for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions but rarely gets a mention

Exploring an untamed landscape can be exciting for those who love nature

The other day, a close friend told me a story from her childhood about an old, worn cigar box containing a hundred pieces of rolled paper, each one with a saying.

Nel suo ultimo libro Philip Lymbery, direttore di Compassion in world Farming, spiega come invertire il trend che ci sta portando alla carestia. E dice la sua sui grilli nel piatto e la carne coltivata in laboratorio

It’s been a year now since my neighbourhood journey into standing up for trees began. It started as so many things do for me these days, on a dog walk.

So, here’s a question for you: would you eat meat not from a cow, but grown in a vat?

Otters have become the latest victim of highly pathogenic avian influenza, marking a new low in this ongoing catastrophe for wildlife.

I love living on a farm. I’ve always wanted to be immersed in the folds of a rural setting, a place where things look different every day.

We have a big year in prospect on so many fronts. Battling against inflation, the war in Ukraine, and the coronation of a new King.

“May you live in interesting times” is an English expression believed to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse. At first the words seem like a blessing, but with a little thought, the irony soon becomes clear.

All life on our planet is interconnected and our future depends on treating it with compassion and respect. By recognising this, we can protect the world’s wildlife and soils as if our life depends on it – because it does. As things stand, we only have sixty harvests left.

With the festive season soon upon us during a winter of financial crisis, the world outside our window can feel distant. Especially where the cost of taking action to save the planet is concerned

By any measure, octopuses are remarkable: they have eight legs, three hearts and blue-green blood.

Carlos Fiolhais chose a dozen of the most recent works released in Portugal

By any measure, octopuses are remarkable: they have eight legs, three hearts and blue-green blood.

It seems a fitting descriptor for a period that has seen a global pandemic followed by a brutal new war in Europe, a cost-of-living crisis and political turmoil with three UK prime ministers in three months.

Children dart excitedly through a field strewn with bright orange pumpkins. Parents, gamely face-painted as ghouls, sip coffee as they await the return of their offspring.

I’m often asked what the role of business should be in creating a sustainable future? I see business as a critical change maker, whether it be on climate, nature, health, or animal welfare.

Covered head to toe in hazmat suits, gloves and facemasks, sombre figures comb clifftops and tidelines searching for corpses.

“You ready?” said an excited official before gently pulling back steel gates to reveal a somewhat bemused bison.

“Code red for humanity” is how the UN Secretary-General described the latest scientific warnings about climate change.

This has been a big week for me with the launch of my latest book, Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-friendly Future.

What we eat has always been evolving, but the pace of change could be set to get a whole lot quicker.

What we eat has always been evolving, but the pace of change could be set to get a whole lot quicker.

Environmentalists have been rocked by a UK Government decision to overturn scientific advice by lifting a ban on a bee-harming pesticide used on sugar beet.

September in the South Pacific started with a life-or-death competition.

Getting up close and personal with a hot and richly fermenting cowpat in Idaho, USA may not be everyone’s idea of a good time.

Shadows from a nuclear power station cast jagged shapes across one of Europe’s most impressive spans of shingle.

These are deeply chilling times with the war in Ukraine and the enormous impact it is having on all affected.

High above a hilltop woodland, shapes were dancing in the darkening sky, like giant butterflies. There were about 40 of them, a silent flurry of swirling wings and tails.

“You did what? And when we can’t even afford meat?!” exclaimed my mother when my dad told her he had been given too much change – 50p – after a shopping trip.

“You did what? And when we can’t even afford meat?!” exclaimed my mother when my dad told her he had been given too much change – 50p – after a shopping trip.

Whichever way we look at it, we love our pets, and rightly so. They provide us with companionship, affection, a reason to go for that walk.

Some of the best things in nature are understated. Take the chalk-streams of England, for example. These fragile river systems meander quietly through undulating countryside before disappearing into the sea.

Matt Dyer, a 49-year-old legal attorney from Maine, had been asleep in his tent when the polar bear attacked. He opened his eyes to see the bear’s forelegs looming over him, silhouetted against the light of the bright moon.

Sometimes I think my dog knows me better than I know myself.

A crowd of 100 people or more had gathered in the Hayden Valley of Yellowstone National Park, USA.

Muckle Flugga lighthouse, Shetland, and waves crashed dramatically against the rocks on this, Britain’s most northerly point.

Veganuary started in 2014 to encourage people positively, inclusively and in a non-hairshirt way, to try a more planet-friendly lifestyle after the excesses of the Christmas holiday season.

Accommodation on that cold, drizzly night was an old lighthouse with no WIFI or TV. Furnishings inside fitted the remote historic look, resembling something out of a 1900s period play.

Some things stay with you forever – like my first ever sighting of a golden eagle. I remember it like yesterday.

How many of us stop to think of the subterranean marvel below us, when we sit on the grass, go for a run or walk in a park? It’s hidden from view and often ignored, yet is fundamental to our survival.

As we head into winter, I’m reminded of the strange happenings on the Arctic-archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, where a snow-covered rubbish dump was being ransacked by polar bears.

Of late, we’ve been getting used to shortages of things we’ve previously taken for granted, like petrol, gas, toilet rolls, HGV drivers and seasonal labour. Could it be that we’re about to add a new item to that list: antibiotics?

As the great and the good packed their bags and left Glasgow last weekend, we were left picking through the plethora of promises and pledges made by our world leaders during the two weeks of climate talks.

The “last best chance to keep 1.5 alive” was how the COP26 climate summit was being seen, creating a huge focus for our collective hopes for the future.

For the next two weeks, Glasgow will become the centre of the world, or at least the epicentre of the battle for the planet.

Glancing at some of the media bulletins at the moment, you could be forgiven for thinking there's every possibility that Christmas could be cancelled this year!

I live in a small farm hamlet with my wife Helen and our dog, Duke. This place I call home is my lens for watching the countryside. Every day, I walk with Duke through the fields and woods and each day I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to witness

There are few creatures on Earth as striking as octopuses. They are remarkable marine cephalopod molluscs, in the same biological class as squid and cuttlefish and easily identified by their eight arms. They inhabit all marine habitats, ranging from tropical reefs to polar latitudes, where they are ecologically important species,

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man,” said Charles Darwin. Today is World Animal Day, a time to celebrate animals across the world, be they farmed, wild or companion animals.

Months on and my local superstore still goes for weeks without having frozen veg available. And now shortages of seasonal labour, drivers and gas have raised political questions and sparked media headlines about the possibility of ‘Christmas being cancelled’.

To my mind, the UN Secretary-General has done something extraordinary. In convening the Food Systems Summit, he has hoicked the issue of food to a place resembling where it should be – a major global issue that needs to be addressed urgently.

Just last week, we learnt about monstrous rains in China and Mumbai with hundreds dead. The week before we witnessed the worst floods for decades in Germany and Belgium with heavy loss of life.