ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
Monster plants and native species loss
ZARAH PATTISON explains how invasive plants like Himalayan balsam and rhododendron are playing havoc with ecosystems where they are introduced
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
Many of the first alien plants — those introduced by humans outside their natural range — to arrive in Britain were brought back by plant hunters of the Victorian era.
Plants have adapted over millennia to their environment. So, we would expect alien plants to struggle in new places. But some survive a little too well, and are so devastating to local plantlife that you need a permit to grow them.
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