Did you hear Farming Today on Radio 4 this morning? EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Cioloş was interviewed at the NFU's Annual Conference. The opening interview question was " which is the most important role of farming - food production or...

Sharp-eyed among you will have noticed that Odeinat is suddenly on the move north, and going fast having already crossed the Red Sea!! No signal yet from Salama which is worrying as she normally starts transmitting again before now... So we will anxiously...

Drax have today announced that they are abandoning plans for a huge biomass power plant in Yorkshire that alone would have consumed about 1.9 million tonnes of wood each year. See here for the story. The RSPB welcomes this announcement as good news...

Someone says "ibis" and you think of a sleek bird, possibly startling white or shocking orange…something way up there on the bird beauty scale. And then there's the bald ibis. A somewhat greasy black, with a naked face that looks...

Let's get this on the record, I think the Angling Trust does a great job and I’m happy we work so closely with them on so many watery issues through the Blueprint for Water. But like most friends they do seem to have peculiar peccadilloes, and...