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Britain’s councils are cutting roadside verges less often to allow vibrant wildflower meadows to bloom.
The food system urgently needs to be redesigned if we are to avoid crisis.
Huge survey shows more than 80% of British people support for solar, but just 18% want fracking.
Could our best shot at stopping climate catastrophe be restoring forests on a massive scale?
Wildflowers, bees and butterflies – your lawn is a vibrant ecosystem waiting to be unleashed.
Here’s what we already do – and don’t – know about the link to climate change.
Migration offers a fix for the islands ‘drowning’ as a consequence of the climate crisis – but are there better alternatives?
They swim, they eat, they multiply.
Having different coloured eyes is quite unusual, but it happens in many species throughout the animal kingdom.
A new study lays out what must happen immediately for any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
Japan’s exit from the IWC should spur on more global cooperation on environmental issues, not less.
A key tool for capturing and storing carbon may have been hiding in plain sight all along.
It’s not just the ocean we need to worry about – plastic is accumulating in the world’s rivers, too.
Locals accuse a fishmeal factory of polluting their waters.
I have studied radical environmental groups for years – they will be key to keeping government honest.
Citizens’ assemblies could be vital in kick-starting the tough steps needed to safeguard a healthy world – but the detail for how they will work will be important.
A climate scientist goes to work – at 8,500 metres.
If the US military were a country, its carbon emissions would rank between that of Peru and Portugal.
A citizens’ assembly can help identify what the people want. Because if climate action is not democratic, it’s not realistic.
Our relationship with the natural world is humanity’s defining challenge. Inspired by ecotopian novels, communities and movements across the world are working to meet it.
They might be a hated household pest, but ants actually live fascinating and complex lives.
As climate change threatens to bring more sudden rainstorms, we need to rethink the way we manage water.
Alien species are more likely to survive in a new habitat when environmental conditions are similar to their native home.
Children are the future, so why don’t we listen to them more often?