In the piercing midday heat of southern Texas, farmhand Linda Villarreal moves methodically to weed row…
Day: May 13, 2021
Chainsaw massacre: tree poaching hits Canada amid lumber shortage
Officials on Vancouver Island say at least 100 trees have been illegally chopped down, leaving one…
Are Biden’s carbon markets as good as they look? No, say smaller farms
Carbon credits to cut US emissions may benefit big animal operations but lock out small, climate-friendly…
‘Odd, eerie and haunting’: behind Maya Lin’s Manhattan ghost forest
The famed artist and architect draws attention to climate change’s biodiversity loss with a forest of…
Cod almighty: how a ‘mythical’ Faroes delicacy has vanished
A giant cod that was once a fishing staple is now so rare it has become…
No visitors but teeming with life: what’s going on inside the Natural History Museum?
While its doors have been closed to the public, scientists have been busy digitising its vast…
Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk
Toxic chemicals known as PFAS found in all 50 samples tested at levels nearly 2,000 times…
Country diary: the orange tip’s wings are the very map of spring
Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: A female flickers through the syrupy light of May, and settles long enough…