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…
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New 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 warnWorld faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts
Sounds of the natural world are rapidly falling silent and will become “acoustic fossils” without urgent action to halt environmental destruction, international experts have warned.…
View More World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn expertsEarthworm – the soil-maker, without whom we’d struggle to feed ourselves
The people have spoken and the choice of Guardian readers for the final nominee for UK invertebrate of the year is resounding: all hail Lumbricus…
View More Earthworm – the soil-maker, without whom we’d struggle to feed ourselvesDinosaur data: can the bones of the deep past help predict extinctions of the future?
In Chicago’s Field Museum, behind a series of access-controlled doors, are about 1,500 dinosaur fossil specimens. The palaeobiologist Jasmina Wiemann walks straight past the bleached…
View More Dinosaur data: can the bones of the deep past help predict extinctions of the future?A very British butterfly: spectacular swallowtail is built for capricious summers
The swallowtail is Britain’s largest and most spectacular butterfly. Most British butterflies are adapted to surviving gruelling, cold, wet, capricious summers, which is why many…
View More A very British butterfly: spectacular swallowtail is built for capricious summersUN names veteran EU official Astrid Schomaker as new biodiversity chief
The next UN biodiversity chief will be Astrid Schomaker, an EU civil servant who will be entrusted with helping the world confront the ongoing catastrophic…
View More UN names veteran EU official Astrid Schomaker as new biodiversity chiefIn defence of slugs and moths: the pesky invertebrates Britain loves to hate
Slugs eat our lettuce. Moths eat our jumpers. It seems pretty unlikely that either will win the Guardian’s invertebrate of the year competition, and yet…
View More In defence of slugs and moths: the pesky invertebrates Britain loves to hate‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England
The rolling hills south of Salisbury Plain are a bleak scene of vast arable fields and tightly grazed pasture dotted with scores of sheep. In…
View More ‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming
The Knepp estate in West Sussex is home to the first white stork born in the wild in Britain for over 600 years. It’s a…
View More ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming