Category: environment and the natural world

Slip Sliding Away

Is the killing of trees the link between this great rail disaster and 2014’s floods?

A new form of marine mass destruction is outrageously being justified by the EU and its member states in the name of “scientific research”.

How to eradicate grey squirrels without firing a shot – an astonishing tale of ecological restoration.

Why, in this age of freedom, are we so confined? And what can we do to reclaim our lives?

The interactions between wildlife and the physical planet are more complex and fascinating than we could ever have imagined.

We are pre-tuned to the natural world; wired to respond to nature.

As governments tear down the rules that defend our wildlife from extinction, here’s a positive attempt to stop the wreckage.

The mythical tiger pursued by helicopters and armed gendarmes speaks volumes about what is missing from our lives.

Only 0.01% of our seas are protected, and even the top conservation sites are up for grabs.

Pointless, joyless consumption is destroying our world of wonders.

If the ozone hole had been discovered ten years later, governments are likely to have done nothing.

And the case for reintroducing big cats. A weird and wonderful tale.

The Natural Capital Agenda looks like an answer to the environmental crisis. But it’s a delusion.

Get ready for a radical rightwing insurgency that could be stirring within the Conservative Party.

As soon as an animal becomes extinct, a new bill proposes, it will be classified as “non-native”.

Neonicotinoids appear to have devastating effects across the natural world: we need a global moratorium.

The government’s decision to capture England’s only free-living population is unjustified and irrational.

We cannot reach people by terrifying them; there has to be a positive agenda.

In an extraordinary coup, farmers’ unions and the UK government have torpedoed the European Soil Framework Directive

Why collapse and salvation are hard to distinguish from each other.