As we progressed as a species we moved from hunting wild animals to keep ‘livestock’; animals raised in controlled conditions for the sole purpose of consumption. This has lead to 2 billion people now eating a primarily meat-based diet. This figure is rising year on...

  Roughly one-third of the food we produce annually is never eaten, food which it takes a combined land mass roughly the size of China to produce. It will, therefore, come as no surprise that the environmental impacts of this are huge. But what actually happens...

  These days plastic is everywhere we look, it might make up the chair you are sitting on or the computer screen you are reading from. It is an incredibly useful material that we have become reliant on as a species. One use of plastic that is almost daily in many...

  Ploughing (or plowing in the US) is a common farming practice and has been a way of preparing the soil for centuries. But it is only in recent times that we have begun to fully understand how environmentally damaging it is. This is mainly through the release of...