Author: Nicola Peel

I hear we are only 10% mammal. 90% of who we are is made of numerous kinds of bacteria, viruses, parasites, yeast, eyelash mites and a host of other life that lives in us and walks on us without us even knowing. A human is...

A distant drone. The sound of the Earth’s black gold. Ruira is the name the Uwa indigenous people call it, which means the blood of the Earth.   How this blood drives our lives. How addicted we have become to this thick black liquid. We are clothed...

Here we are on a planet that is hurtling at thousands of miles per hour through space. In fact we are rotating at 1000 mph, circling the sun at 67,000mph and through our galaxy at 490,000mph When we see ourselves as this spaceship flying though this...

Who am I? I have had many titles, speaker, film maker, activist, campaigner, environmentalist but sadly they can come with an adverse perception. An image of angry anarchists, tree sitters (yes I have done that also) and sprout loving idealistic hippies. So when asked recently...

With my own eyes I’ve witnessed streams and rivers running black with heavy crude oil, butterflies coated in this toxic substance struggling to move their once multicoloured wings, dead fish floating on the current, others contaminated, but still alive, only to be eaten by indigenous...