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Gareth King, WWF's head of climate change, and Michaela Strachan are particularly concerned by the impact rising temperatures and extreme flooding have on bio-diversity and they have been looking at fairly simple things we can all do to curb climate change.  

1) Keep your garden wild: plant native flowers for pollinators and keep a patch of your garden unmown and unweeded to help attract bees, hedgehogs, beetles and slugs.

Egloo terracotta heater gives you a bit of warmth for the price of three tealights. It's eco friendly and useful

 Deforestation is the second largest contributor to the climate crisis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change – warns that deforestation intensifies the effects of climate change, such as water scarcity, drought and food shortages. Billions of people will be adversely affected, especially those living in rural parts of the world who depend on farming to feed their families.

Manhattan penthouses aren't everyone's cup of tea. Many of us would prefer the warmth and cosiness of an American farmhouse...with a big range cooker, Shaker furniture and handmade quilts on the feather beds... It's the US interior style equivalent to English country house, perhaps, and as with the latter, the former isn't as easy to achieve as it looks.

'The house is located in an elevated residential area, which is dominated by the hillside that leads down to the sea,' explains architect Ramón Esteve. 'This view marked the direction that the walls would follow, in an abstract manner, defining the project,'