As a green Conservative, I warmly welcome the environmental steps announced by the chancellor in his…
Month: July 2020
Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air
Spreading rock dust on farmland could suck billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air…
Addressing the Long Road to Global Stocks Recovery
Thanks to the coronavirus crisis, the world’s stock markets have endured a challenging 2020 to date,…
3 Careers for Those with an Economics Degree
In 2017, there were over 45,700 economic degrees awarded and 3.82 million in the workforce who…
Protecting 30% of planet could bolster economy, study says
Nearly a third of the world’s oceans and land area could be placed under environmental protections…
Seafood fraud: why your Mediterranean swordfish might actually be shark
Franco Comes last caught sharks more than six months ago, while longline fishing for swordfish in…
‘Playing the hand of God’: scientists’ experiment aims to help trees survive climate change
There is an impressive array of pine species at the Nature Conservancy’s Plum Creek preserve in…
‘Landscape of fear’: what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists
In August 2016, a park ranger stumbled upon 323 dead wild tundra reindeer in Norway’s remote…
Great white vanishing act: where have South Africa’s famous sharks gone?
For those who watch the waves, rocks and beaches for the distinctive silhouettes and dorsal fins,…
Halve UK pesticide use to save insects, say conservationists
The use of pesticides in the UK must be at least halved to reverse steep losses…