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  1. 'Indonesia is seeing a new corporate colonialism'

    guardian.co.uk

    Multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people, say human rights groups Land conflicts between farmers and plantation owners, mining companies and developers have raged across Indonesia as loca...

  2. Why worrying about food miles is missing the point

    guardian.co.uk

    Getting your lamb from New Zealand isn't hurting the planet and buying your potatoes from the other end of the country is fine. Jay Rayner says food miles are not the problem and, below, visits an abattoir In November 2009, I lost my temper in f...

  3. Ask a grown- up: what do fish do all day?

    guardian.co.uk

    Alex Cliffe, aquarist at London Zoo, answers three-year-old Elsa's question Here at London Zoo, we encourage the fish to behave like they would in the wild. The lights go on as the sun rises, and this lets the fish know it's breakfast time. Each...

  4. Energy suppliers held back gas during UK shortage

    guardian.co.uk

    Terminals near London and in Wales were 40% and 52% full on the day it was claimed the UK had six hours' worth of gas left Some of Britain's biggest energy suppliers were holding back gas in storage tanks at a time when the market ran into an ac...