A new type of heat pump that may soon be rolled out in the UK could ease the shift for homes to low-carbon heating but…
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‘Gentle giants’: rangers prepare for return of wild bison to UK
“When you see them in the wild, there’s this tangible feeling of humility and respect,” says Tom Gibbs, one of the UK’s first two bison…
View More ‘Gentle giants’: rangers prepare for return of wild bison to UK‘Every tree counts’: Dutch come up with cunning way to create forests for free
In a clearing in the Amsterdamse Bos, a forest on the outskirts of the Dutch capital, is a “tree hub” where hundreds of saplings, among…
View More ‘Every tree counts’: Dutch come up with cunning way to create forests for freePig patrol: Amsterdam airport’s innovative approach to flight safety
A group of animals has been drafted in to combat a hazard in the skies above the runways of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, the Netherlands’ aviation…
View More Pig patrol: Amsterdam airport’s innovative approach to flight safetyDutch scientists may have solved mystery of why some twins are identical
The medical mystery of what causes some twins to be born identical may have been solved by scientists in the Netherlands, raising hopes for treatment…
View More Dutch scientists may have solved mystery of why some twins are identicalWhy does world’s tallest populace seem to be getting shorter?
From brutal conflicts to periods of prosperity, pandemics to triumphs for equality, human history is full of highs and lows. But such fluctuations don’t just…
View More Why does world’s tallest populace seem to be getting shorter?Wildcats return to Netherlands after centuries’ absence
They disappeared centuries ago, but wildcats have returned to the forests of the southern Netherlands, local conservationists have said. The wildcat, which has longer legs…
View More Wildcats return to Netherlands after centuries’ absenceDoggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets
The idea of a “lost Atlantis” under the North Sea connecting Britain by land to continental Europe had been imagined by HG Wells in the…
View More Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secretsShining through: Dutch artist paints farming in a new light to boost crops
By day, the field of leeks looks like any other. But, as the sun sets, blue and red light, mixed with invisible ultraviolet (UV) radiation,…
View More Shining through: Dutch artist paints farming in a new light to boost cropsWanted: UK bison rangers, no previous experience expected
Can you handle a beast as heavy as a small car, that can hurdle high fences from a standing start, and is a peaceful bulldozer…
View More Wanted: UK bison rangers, no previous experience expected