‘We’re watching them die’: can right whales pull back from the brink?
“You can’t work on North Atlantic right whales and be a pessimist,” Clay George tells me.…
‘Coronavirus profiteers’ condemned as polluters gain bailout billions
Polluting industries around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic to gain billions of dollars in…
Country diary: life is at a standstill but the bees are still buzzing
Life is at a standstill. Homebound stasis forces me to look at the patch of the…
‘Nature is still there’: UK diary project heralds spring during lockdown
Some wrote in praise of the signs of spring glimpsed through windows or from balconies while…
Scientists trial cloud brightening equipment to shade and cool Great Barrier Reef
Scientists have carried out a trial of prototype cloud brightening equipment on the Great Barrier Reef…
Can cloud-brightening help save the Great Barrier Reef? Trials have begun – video
Play Video 1:41 Teams of Australian marine scientists have tested a technique they hope may give…
Farmers’ union ‘optimistic’ UK workers will rescue the harvest
The leader of the UK’s biggest farming organisation says she is optimistic that British workers will…
The Covid-19 pandemic shows we must transform the global food system | Jan Dutkiewicz, Astra Taylor and Troy Vettese
It was bats. Or pangolins. To hear common narratives about the origins of Covid-19, there is…
UK cities postpone clean air zone plans due to Covid-19 crisis
The introduction of pollution-busting clean air zones in cities has been postponed by the coronavirus crisis,…
Name that song – it’s the perfect time to learn to identify birds
As our cities, and even parts of the countryside, have fallen eerily silent, with traffic and…