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?Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade
Three redwoods tower over Wakehurst’s Elizabethan mansion like skyscrapers. Yet at 40 metres (131ft) high, these are almost saplings – not even 150 years old…
View More Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade‘She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist
When she was a teenage girl, Saalumarada Thimmakka planted her first banyan tree just outside the remote Indian village of Hulikal, in the southwestern state…
View More ‘She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalistAct to save Dartmoor rainforest from sheep, urge campaigners
There are acorns galore and tiny oaks sprouting from tussocky grass beside the gnarled ancient trees of Black-a-Tor Copse on the northern slopes of Dartmoor…
View More Act to save Dartmoor rainforest from sheep, urge campaignersBotanical gardens ‘most effective’ green space at cooling streets in heatwaves
Few things are as soothing on a hot summer’s day as a walk through a beautiful botanical garden, but they are not just oases of…
View More Botanical gardens ‘most effective’ green space at cooling streets in heatwavesVery cool: trees stalling effects of global heating in eastern US, study finds
Trees provide innumerable benefits to the world, from food to shelter to oxygen, but researchers have now found their dramatic rebound in the eastern US…
View More Very cool: trees stalling effects of global heating in eastern US, study findsAmazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn
Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could hit a tipping point by 2050 as a result of water stress, land clearance and climate disruption,…
View More Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn‘It’s like a family bereavement’: Devon village mourns loss of beloved oak tree
Since the 15th century, perhaps even longer, Broad Oak has been part of the Silverton landscape. Residents of the Devon village, one of the oldest…
View More ‘It’s like a family bereavement’: Devon village mourns loss of beloved oak treeOptimism dries up in Amazon as Lula drifts from climate priorities
What a difference a year makes in the Brazilian Amazon. At the start of 2023, I wrote about the green shoots of the rainy season…
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