Here we are in the middle of one of the most significant weeks for the natural world and I’ve been absent from the blogwaves. The Severn barrage disappeared at the beginning of the week, but already news of a privately-funded proposal is emerging...

George Osborne obviously sees the countryside as feminine and cities as masculine, as he's delivered a sugar and spice budget for farmers and and a snips, snails and puppy dogs tails budget for wildlife loving Londoners. After much campaigning...

Reports in the Sunday papers ( here in the Independent on Sunday) indicate that tomorrow will see the massively damaging Severn barrage dropped on cost grounds. The cycle of wild enthusiasm, appraisal of the true risks and costs followed by collapse of...

Coo, Michael McIntyre and I together in the last weekend’s Sunday Times magazine. Fame at last. Well, actually, I got some pithy quotes into an article about wind farms at sea - I'll probably have to wait for an invitation to appear live at...

I’ve finally arrived back in the port of Itajaí following my first trip on a fishing vessel as part of the Albatross Task Force team in Brazil. The vessel was a wooden 23 m longliner with 10 crew members, including myself. The target species...