Apply for Airbnb’s Antarctic Sabbatical

White tundra and cobalt waters. When we think of Antarctica, one of the world’s most remote and isolated biomes, it’s usually as a pristine paradise....

ON THE BEATEN TRACK: SIX SPOTS FOR THE ETHICAL TOURIST TO AVOID

‘Take only memories, leave only footprints’. It’s been a rallying cry for responsible tourists for decades. Ironically, it’s one footprint left by the world’s annual...

How fashion’s fanning the Amazon flames

It’s taken the worst fires in a decade for the world to finally realise the Amazon is in trouble. Visions of the forest ablaze, smoke...

It’s a Climate Emergency

Sisters Sam and Karina Seljak founded Seljak Brand – a recycled wool blanket line produced in a resolutely circular manufacturing process. As guests at Al...

Five new ways to go zero-waste

Back in Issue 38 we were talking all things zero-waste with writer Emily Ehlers (aka @ecowithem), who gave us a rundown of her fave new...

Jack Johnson wants you to BYOBottle

Jack Johnson – famed not just for his much-loved music but for his tireless environmental campaigning – is spearheading a new initiative to reduce single...

Earth Day 2019

From reef to rainforest, our planet is in the midst of a mass extinction event – the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the...

The Year of Living Coral

With a recent IPCC Report predicting the world is on-track to lose 99% of its coral, reef health has once again been thrust to the...

12 YEARS TO SAVE THE WORLD

Twelve years – that’s how long the global community has left to contain rising temperatures before we risk a full-blown climate change catastrophe, a new...

FROM THE ARCHIVES // Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall’s favourite toy as a child was a plush chimpanzee given to her by her father after a baby chimpanzee was born at London...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: David Attenborough

With our tenth birthday celebrations now in full swing (woo!), we’re rifling through the Peppermint archives and bringing back some majorly cool features from past...

Bin your plastic habit

We all need a little help when it comes to cutting down our waste, and this Plastic Free July we’re continuing to share top tips...