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Understanding this will boost conservation efforts.
The UK’s business secretary is well placed to deliver a low carbon economy.
Development design needs to focus more on natural resources for the benefit of human health.
Islands are very special when it comes to quirks of evolution.
‘Adaptation’ will help deal with the next decade or two of global warming. But what about key energy or transport links that are expected to last a century?
Traditional botanists are in decline, but this isn’t the end of plant science.
We should celebrate these amazing insects, not splat them.
The bizarre spectacle was the result of a coming together of several exceptional circumstances.
Iraq’s oil industry is a window into the troubled period that followed regime change.
New research explains why habitat loss means male willow warblers now outnumber females – and that’s bad news for the species.
The ‘Muskrat Falls’ hydroelectric project is being built in anticipation of the Innu voting away ownership of their own land.
What the Montreal Protocol has done for the ozone hole threat other international accords could do for climate change – if we all agree.
Human activity doesn’t just reduce biodiversity – new research explores how we are continually creating new species and ecosystems, too.
British people will still be able to emit 60% more than their fair share.
The new ‘carbon budget’ has eased fears of a post-Brexit ‘coup’ by Tory climate sceptics.
Exiting the EU does not mean closing off British seas.
‘Smell-free seas’ would be a disaster for marine life.
We have the technology to temporarily shift wet weather elsewhere.
A major report on why energy bills are so expensive was published the day after the vote for Brexit.
When it comes to reducing air pollution, scoring and ranking cities is neither accurate, nor productive.
All too often the environment’s advocates are portrayed as outsiders, elitist, out of touch.
Jump on the Glastonbury bus, bring your tent back home afterwards, and promote long term behaviour change.
While planes still emit too much carbon, they may also help the climate by ensuring clouds bounce more sunlight back into space.
Subsidies wouldn’t disappear overnight, but help for farmers would be gradually reduced each year.