The Research Brief: how local authorities can lead on nature-based climate solutions
Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
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Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
ByScrapping Natural England’s uncompromising regulations could be harder than the government thinks.
ByIs this a moment of reckoning for the UK's water industry?
ByA new variant of avian flu derived from intensive poultry farming is decimating British wildlife.
ByAnabel Kindersley, owner of Neal’s Yard Remedies, warns the authorisation of a banned pesticide will damage Britain's reputation.
ByWill the last wild camper please turn out the light?
ByA family of London swans offer both warning and hope in the face of an overlooked crisis.
ByAs Cop15 ends, the former Amazon boss turned director of the Natural History Museum wants to make nature count by…
ByRogue release or recolonisation? The sighting offers a sliver of hope – we should take it.
ByAs the rain returns to drought-parched England and Wales, so has the sewage.
ByTo live up to King Charles’s environmental promise, Prince William will have to be even more bold.
ByThe world may need protected land to ensure biodiversity, but it cannot come at the cost of local people’s rights.
ByThe Prime Minister appears to be giving in to small-government Tories who want him to ditch policies aimed at protecting…
ByThe condition of the Royal Estates also suggest there is much to modernise despite the monarchy’s legacy of hands-on conservation.
ByAfter 30 years on the climate frontline, the long-serving head of Greenpeace UK is stepping down with a call for…
ByBy failing to prioritise climate change, the country’s leading political parties are spelling a death sentence for its most famous…
ByNinety years on from the trespass of Kinder Scout, the protection of nature requires an even greater right to roam.
ByIn a conservation landscape riven by conflict and opposing interests, the education campaigner insists the new qualification must be “for…
ByHow a success story from this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch hides a wider disappearing act.
ByThe author and his wife teach children to value their environment and themselves by immersing them in farm life and…
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