You can stick to your environmental principals even after you die, by asking for a ‘natural’ or ‘green’ funeral, reports Penny Kitchen. 

The National Forest is nothing if not ambitious. Covering 200 square miles of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire – one of the least-wooded areas of England – it’s the first large-scale, multi-purpose forest created in this country since the Norman Conquest. 

Have you ever seen bats late on a summer's evening, silently flitting round trees and hedges as they hunt for food? Roosting by day and venturing out at dusk to hunt for insects, they are difficult to see. 

Vineyards in Scotland and the gradual disappearance of the English cottage garden are just two possible scenarios that could result from climate change, according to a study by Richard Bisgrove and Paul Hadley of the University of Reading.  

The Yorkshire Dales National Park covers 680 square miles. In global terms this is not a lot, but once you are there, the astonishing variety of landscape makes it seem like another country.

The Yorkshire Dales belong to a family of 11 National Parks in England and Wales, the others being The Broads, Brecon Beacons, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lake District, Northumberland, North York Moors, Peak District, Pembrokeshire Coast and Snowdonia.