The global food system is the biggest driver of destruction of the natural world, and a shift to predominantly plant-based diets is crucial in halting…
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Flower power! The movement to bring back Britain’s beautiful meadows
On a perfect summer day, the bees drone and a million flowers dance as a dozen people move across the meadow, cutting hay with a…
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It’s a fine, crisp day and the first frost of the season, a significant occasion for any gardener and one that has not gone unnoticed…
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Leading scientists have warned that global conservation is being undermined by celebrity power after they suffered death threats and abuse in a hostile dispute over…
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Jane Goodall is a primatologist who is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on chimpanzees. She has spent 60 years studying the chimps…
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From the Nepalese Himalayas where tigers patrol the snowy peaks to the lush forest homes of mountain gorillas in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
View More ‘A critical time’: how Covid-19 piled the pressure on conservation effortsOysters return to Belfast Lough after more than 100 years
Native oysters have unexpectedly returned to the shores of Belfast Lough after more than 100 years, researchers have discovered – though scientists are still unsure…
View More Oysters return to Belfast Lough after more than 100 yearsDiscovery of ‘cryptic species’ shows Earth is even more biologically diverse
A growing number of “cryptic species” hiding in plain sight have been unmasked in the past year, driven in part by the rise of DNA…
View More Discovery of ‘cryptic species’ shows Earth is even more biologically diverseWild ways: how readers have been helping wildlife in their gardens
Inspired by the story of the hedgehog highways in an English village and impressed by the contributions to our urban wildlife gallery, we asked Guardian…
View More Wild ways: how readers have been helping wildlife in their gardensGlobal food industry on course to drive rapid habitat loss – research
The global food system is on course to drive rapid and widespread ecological damage with almost 90% of land animals likely to lose some of…
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