Lighthouse Eco

Striving for a sustainable Lifestyle

Shea Woodrow

Three Just Stop Oil activists charged after soup thrown at Van Gogh paintings

Three protesters have been charged with criminal damage and will appear in court after soup was thrown at two Vincent van Gogh paintings on Friday.

Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation

A judge in the Brazilian state of Rondonia has found two beef slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle from a protected area of former rainforest in the Amazon

Take a look inside a $1.1 million ‘zero emissions’ home

Residential and commercial buildings account for almost a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

From wastelands to wetlands: The fight to save Sri Lanka’s natural flood buffers

Sri Lanka’s capital is transforming floating garbage patches into biodiverse wetlands which are teeming with life.

Constantine Arch in Rome damaged by lightning during violent storm

Residents tell of ‘apocalyptic scenes’ after more than 60mm of rainfall falls on Rome in less than an hour

Coral Restoration’s Wake Up Call

Rebuilding degraded coral reefs started as a noble endeavor, but now some coral scientists are confronting a dark reality.

Why air pollution bamboozles pollinating bees

Contaminated air is not only bad for us, it can also disrupt bees’ highly attuned senses for finding flowers.

Nearly 25% of European landscape could be rewilded, say researchers

Europe’s abandoned farmlands could find new life through rewilding, a movement to restore ravaged landscapes to their wilderness before human intervention.

African penguin “Charlie” recovering at uShaka after shark attack

A juvenile African penguin is making good progress. It’s being nursed back to health at Durban’s uShaka Sea World, after sustaining severe injuries in a suspected shark attack.

Pantanal waterway project would destroy a ‘paradise on Earth’, scientists warn

The South American wetland, which falls within Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, would be vulnerable to biome loss and increased wildfires

‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

Married couple from Bristol attract awe and abuse on X with photos that show ‘staggering’ changes in the Alps