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The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields
It took just a few decades for Brazilian agriculture to transform its tropical savannah hinterlands –…
Revealed: UK supermarket and fast food chicken linked to deforestation in Brazil
Supermarkets and fast food outlets are selling chicken fed on imported soya linked to thousands of…
Two polar bears come sniffing in the Arctic night: Esther Horvath’s best photograph
In the autumn of 2019, I joined an expedition to the Arctic. We set sail from…
Boris Johnson’s ‘jet zero’ green flight goal dismissed as a gimmick
Boris Johnson’s “jet zero” goal of a commercial transatlantic flight producing no carbon emissions by 2025…
Meet the South Poll cow: the healthier, naturally raised cattle of the future?
Missouri rancher Greg Judy spots a six-month-old South Poll heifer calf in his herd that is…
Is it a bird? Is it a bee? No, it’s a lizard pollinating South Africa’s ‘hidden flower’
Towards the end of 2017, PhD candidate Ruth Cozien and her husband Dr Timo van der…
The Indian school where students pay for lessons with plastic waste
Every morning, students in Assam’s Pamohi village go to school clutching a bag of plastic waste,…
The Morrison government has abrogated responsibility for acting on the climate crisis to the states | John Hewson
A colleague commented to me recently: “Where would we be without the states leading and driving…
Bin-shaming: the fine line between recycling education and community alienation
A Sydney council has come under fire for a program in which staff inspect residents’ garbage…