The redbrick offices, just north of Hamburg’s River Elbe and a few floors below Carlsberg’s German headquarters, are an unexpectedly low-key setting for a food…
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Young country diary: What’s that droning noise coming from the river? | Anna
I love going back to the same riverside path at the edge of the city. It’s so familiar, but thanks to nature no visit is…
View More Young country diary: What’s that droning noise coming from the river? | AnnaWhy Antarctic wildlife is being ‘sunburnt’
A large group of ozone depleting chemicals were responsible – primarily CFCs or chlorofluorocarbons – that were used as refrigerants. Every country agreed, in 1987,…
View More Why Antarctic wildlife is being ‘sunburnt’UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’
A UN-led panel of nearly 100 countries is to draw up new guidelines to prevent some of the environmental damage and human rights abuses associated…
View More UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled
Doctors have begun trialling in hundreds of patients the world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its “gamechanging” potential to permanently…
View More ‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialledBritish succulent society chair quits over row about taking specimens from wild
A furious row has blown up in the UK’s leading succulent society over the practice of taking desirable specimens from the wild, with the chair…
View More British succulent society chair quits over row about taking specimens from wildExotic spiders flourishing in Britain as new jumping species found in Cornwall
Some are small and jumpy; others are large and intimidating – if you’re a humble housefly. Exotic spiders are flourishing in Britain as international trade…
View More Exotic spiders flourishing in Britain as new jumping species found in CornwallHow the overseas owners of the UK’s water companies clean up by polluting our rivers | George Monbiot
So that’s how they do it. I’d been wondering how, when more sewage has been entering our rivers than ever before, some of the water…
View More How the overseas owners of the UK’s water companies clean up by polluting our rivers | George MonbiotNew EU nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warn
The EU’s nature restoration law will only work if it is enacted in partnership with farmers, a group of leading scientists has said, after months…
View More New EU nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warnConservation is saving species, global study says
In the first study of its kind, published in the journal Science, scientists from dozens of research institutes reviewed 665 trials of conservation measures, some…
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