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…
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‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?
In a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have…
View More ‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan
The omission of meat-eating reduction from proposals in a UN roadmap to tackle the climate crisis and end hunger is “bewildering”, according to academic experts.…
View More ‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan‘They’re at the forefront’: the women leading the way through Britain’s farming crisis
Back in the 1970s, Holly Collins was studying for her A-levels in Sussex. While her friends sent off their university applications, she wrote to the…
View More ‘They’re at the forefront’: the women leading the way through Britain’s farming crisisFinancial toll of climate crisis hitting women harder, UN says
Women in rural areas suffer substantially greater economic losses from the impacts of climate breakdown than men in developing countries, research has shown, and the…
View More Financial toll of climate crisis hitting women harder, UN saysWWF shelved report exposing River Wye pollution ‘to keep Tesco happy’
The wildlife charity WWF-UK shelved a report that warned how intensive chicken production is devastating the River Wye, the Observer can reveal. Since 2018, the…
View More WWF shelved report exposing River Wye pollution ‘to keep Tesco happy’‘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 farmingLabour tells NFU conference it will reduce imports that undercut British farmers
Labour has laid out its plans for farming at the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) conference, promising to reduce imports that undercut British farmers and forge…
View More Labour tells NFU conference it will reduce imports that undercut British farmersDefra officials buried analysis showing dire financial prospects for hill farmers
Government officials have buried an analysis of the financial prospects for some of the most vulnerable farmers in the UK after realising it was almost…
View More Defra officials buried analysis showing dire financial prospects for hill farmers‘Total immersive obsession’: meet the man on a mission to record every bird in Ireland
One of Seán Ronayne’s earliest memories is walking in the countryside near his home with his father. “I cried a lot as a child and…
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