To be a person of color in America often means to be unseen and unheard. It…
Month: April 2020
Falconers to be allowed to take wild peregrine chicks from nests
Conservationists have condemned the decision to allow falconers to take wild peregrine falcon chicks from nests…
‘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…