Climate change will reshuffle marine ecosystems in unexpected ways
Warming of the oceans due to climate change will mean fewer productive fish species to catch in the future, according to a new Rutgers...
€1 million award for app-supported regreening programme
A project that aims to help farmers restore land and introduce more sustainable methods has secured a €1 million grant from the Dutch National...
Report pulls back the curtain on chemical pollution in the ocean
A new report attempts to provide a diagnostic of the scale of the ocean pollution challenge facing humanity.
The Invisible Wave: Getting to zero chemical...
Ocean protection further delayed as UN negotiations close without treaty
Negotiations for a new UN Treaty to protect two thirds of the planet have ended without conclusion at the UN Headquarters in New York,...
Government sets out new targets on air quality, water pollution, waste and woodland cover
The UK government announced new environmental targets in four key areas of air quality, water, waste reduction and woodland cover on 16 March....
Verge-cutting mower head “gives biodiversity a winning edge”
Specialist contractor GVA has become the first UK customer for a new, environmentally-friendly mowing head designed to protect insects and other creatures.
The ECO 1200...
New digital models of Salisbury Crags
The ancient meets the modern with the launch on 16 March of two new digital 3D models highlighting the “Hutton Section” and “Hutton’s Rock”...
Podcast explores hedgerows and nature-based careers
On 10 March, The Tree Council released the first three episodes of a new podcast series, Life On The Hedge, which explores "the magic...
Small garden? No problem!: ‘Mini-meadows’ can make rich habitats for pollinators, says study
For many people, a lack of space is often the main reason for not creating wildlife friendly habitats in their gardens. But researchers at...
Fish eDNA project launched at offshore wind farm
In a bid to validate offshore fish environmental DNA (eDNA) survey methods, a new project has been launched - said to be the first...
UK soils could see step change in carbon sink potential, with proper investment
Investing in the ground beneath our feet could have wide-ranging benefits for the environment, animal and human health – as well as moving closer...
Guinness embarks on regenerative agriculture pilot
Guinness says it is undertaking one of the most ambitious regenerative agriculture pilots ever conducted in Ireland. Regenerative agriculture is an approach to farming...
Number of wildfires to rise by 50% by 2100 and governments are not prepared,...
Climate change and land-use change are projected to make wildfires more frequent and intense, with a global increase of extreme fires of up to...
Comment: We reconstructed Britain of millions of years ago to see what climate breakdown...
Dr Matthew Pound, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, and Dr Martha Gibson, Research Fellow in Paleoclimatology at Northumbria University, explore how the climate crisis...
Interactive map will help protect one of the UK’s most threatened mammals
An interactive web tool is being used to map suitable habitats for a nationally significant water vole species.
It was developed by researchers from the...
Air pollution significantly reduces pollination by confusing butterflies and bees
Common air pollutants from both urban and rural environments may be reducing the pollinating abilities of insects by preventing them from sniffing out the...
Biospherian will share water stories from ‘Spaceship Earth’
Through a radical two-year experiment living inside a mini-Earth, ecologist Dr Mark Nelson developed a deep understanding of humans’ connection with the planetary biosphere...
DNA sequencing helps explore fish diversity but lacks pinpoint accuracy
Environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing is allowing scientists to explore piscine diversity in the Amazon without catching fish, but the approach has its limitations when studying environments as diverse as this.
“Radical” rhetoric of farming reform promising, but lack of details and urgency still puts...
On 6 January, the Government announced further details on two new schemes for rewarding farmers in England for producing food sustainably, while supporting nature’s...
Superbug MRSA arose in hedgehogs long before clinical use of antibiotics
Scientists appear to have found evidence that a type of the antibiotic resistant superbug MRSA arose in nature long before the use of antibiotics...
