Category: Environment

What’s in our water?

July 10, 2023

A quick guide to filters, distillers and purifiers and how to clean your tap water The hidden nasties within a glass of drinking water are a disturbing reality of the UK’s water industry. Bacteria, viruses, carcinogens, organic phosphorus, glyphosate, herbicides, perchlorate, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and detergents lurk, dissolved in our tap water – and … More What’s in our water?

Humans represent just 0.01% of all life, but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals

June 4, 2018

A new assessment of all planetary life based on biomass – or weight – has revealed humanity to be ‘both insignificant and utterly dominant’.  The Israeli study estimates that the world’s 7.6 billion people make up just 0.01% of the mass of all living things.  (Worms have a combined mass three times greater than us.) … More Humans represent just 0.01% of all life, but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals