Some wrote in praise of the signs of spring glimpsed through windows or from balconies while…
Day: April 16, 2020
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…
Animals Farmed: pig virus, wildlife trade in China, and the ‘poultry capital’ of Wales
News from around the world Pigs and poultry are likely to be safe from Covid-19, according…
UK school and hospital caterers vow to cut meat served by 20%
Public sector caterers serving billions of meals a year in schools, universities, hospitals and care homes…
Country diary: wandering deer share our self-isolation enclave
Deer roam through the garden most nights, leaving their prints and grazing choice leaves of daylilies,…