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Guest post from Rachel Warren, Reader in Integrated Assessment of Climate Change, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia We have just published the first global scale analysis of impacts of climate change on the climatic ranges of 50,000 widespread and common animal...

State of Nature , a scientific collaboration of 25 UK conservation organisations, saying that our species are in already trouble, my thoughts turned to consider how climate change might be part of that. Especially when this UK report follows a recent global study , suggesting that more than half of common...

State of Nature in Scotland Yesterday I participated in a ground breaking event. I hosted the launch of the Scottish end of the State of Nature report. This is a collaboration of expert bodies pooling data about wildlife species and diagnosing the problems they face. 25 organisations all deeply concerned...

We all know that we can’t afford to burn all of our fossil fuel reserves if we’re to stay within the ‘safe’ climate change of around 2°C average global temperature rise, but a new report last week has revealed just how big the mismatch is between economic and environmental...

Tony Whitehead, RSPB South West Regional Office With the DECC Minister Greg Barker saying yesterday that it’s not at all realistic that a Severn Barrage Bill will come before parliament this term we think now is the ideal time for everyone to take stock and look anew at generating power from...

There are many things for you to do in your bathrooms to ensure that you live a greener life. Little things like stopping a tap dripping to cutting your shower time and water usage can make a huge difference! But here at the RSPB shop we thought we would use this final day of the week to show you...

Today's theme for Go Green Week is Cut Your Travel. In the UK, driving a car is one of the largest contributors to our personal carbon emmissions yet one of the simplest things to cut down. Now, we don't ask that you to walk for hours a day to get to work, but perhaps just swap your 2 minute...

Today's theme for Go Green Week is Greener Kitchens, so here at the RSPB shop we've got a product to help you recycle your food waste and a product to make your rubbish fun! First up this compost caddy. I know what you are thinking. How can I recycle my food when I have nowhere to put it...

It is hard to imagine a time when we had to be stringent on the food we were eating, or a time when you couldn’t just pop in the car to go to the shops. However, as the environment begins to become increasingly affected by the way we live our lives we start to look back on these times with nostalgia...