My name is Katharine Mansell. I’m a journalist based in London, with 15 years’ professional experience working as a communicator in the science and environment sectors.

I write on the issues I find fascinating: the good and the bad of how we treat the land we live on, and what that could mean for us all.

Having spent years working on this subject, I feel we are nothing without the land around us. We rely on it for the food we grow and eat, the water we drink, the homes we build, the way we power our cities.

And if treated with care, it can do amazing things for us from countering the growing effects of climate change to boosting our mental wellbeing with its sheer splendour.*

I’ll often be writing from a UK perspective, but sometimes you’ll see news from elsewhere. Usually those stories that have the potential to impact wherever we live in the world. And sometimes, it might just be because I was lucky enough to go explore another country.

Let me know in the comments what your green interests are, and if you have a story you think I should write about, then contact me at greendispatches@gmail.com or you can reach me on any of my social media channels, using #GDstorytips 

*Seriously, check it out. Amazing stuff. Here’s some info courtesy of the BBC and if you’re still not convinced, another study published a year later and written up in the New York Times.