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Murky waters: what comes next for nutrient neutrality?
Scrapping Natural England’s uncompromising regulations could be harder than the government thinks.
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Sewage, shortages and spills: how UK water companies have failed
Is this a moment of reckoning for the UK's water industry?
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Dead birds falling from the sky is a bad omen for humanity
A new variant of avian flu derived from intensive poultry farming is decimating British wildlife.
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“It’s not only bees that will suffer”: why lifting the neonicotinoid ban is bad for business
Anabel Kindersley, owner of Neal’s Yard Remedies, warns the authorisation of a banned pesticide will damage Britain's reputation.
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Dartmoor’s wild camping battle is a fight for nature itself
Will the last wild camper please turn out the light?
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Seven swans not swimming: how bird flu came to Christmas
A family of London swans offer both warning and hope in the face of an overlooked crisis.
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Doug Gurr: “We are potentially decades away from a mass extinction”
As Cop15 ends, the former Amazon boss turned director of the Natural History Museum wants to make nature count by…
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The mystery of the pine marten’s return to London
Rogue release or recolonisation? The sighting offers a sliver of hope – we should take it.
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How much raw sewage is being released into the sea?
As the rain returns to drought-parched England and Wales, so has the sewage.
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For king and countryside: William must surpass his father’s green legacy
To live up to King Charles’s environmental promise, Prince William will have to be even more bold.
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Conservation needs to ditch its “colonial” ways
The world may need protected land to ensure biodiversity, but it cannot come at the cost of local people’s rights.
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Is Boris Johnson ditching nature to save his skin?
The Prime Minister appears to be giving in to small-government Tories who want him to ditch policies aimed at protecting…
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Horses, heather and hierarchy: Is the monarchy good for nature?
The condition of the Royal Estates also suggest there is much to modernise despite the monarchy’s legacy of hands-on conservation.
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Greenpeace CEO John Sauven: “The most dangerous moment is now”
After 30 years on the climate frontline, the long-serving head of Greenpeace UK is stepping down with a call for…
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Australia’s election campaign has failed its Great Barrier Reef
By failing to prioritise climate change, the country’s leading political parties are spelling a death sentence for its most famous…
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Why access to nature is broken, not the millennials who trespass
Ninety years on from the trespass of Kinder Scout, the protection of nature requires an even greater right to roam.
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Mary Colwell: the woman behind the UK’s new nature GCSE
In a conservation landscape riven by conflict and opposing interests, the education campaigner insists the new qualification must be “for…
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Where have all the jays come from?
How a success story from this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch hides a wider disappearing act.
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Clare and Michael Morpurgo: Experiencing nature is as important as literature
The author and his wife teach children to value their environment and themselves by immersing them in farm life and…
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