Nostalgia reveals nature’s true value
A sentimental perspective helps identify those essential creatures and habitats we have carelessly lost.
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Arik Kershenbaum Q&A: “I’m happiest in a hammock, being woken by gibbon song”
The zoologist on emigrating to the UK, what the Civil War cost America, and the serenity of a world before…
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Mysteries of the owl and octopus
A new school of natural history seeks to understand the deep intelligence of the Earth’s most enigmatic creatures.
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It’s hard to be a “tree-hugger”, but progressive politicians must try
The EU’s Nature Restoration Law could signal the start of a new backlash against environment policy, not the end.
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What the adder means
The attention you bring to bear on the landscape as you look for Britain’s only venomous snake is transformative.
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The eradication of species
Biodiversity is not just an asset from which humans gain. We have complex social relations with all non-human life.
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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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“Crabs taught me to be anti-capitalist”: how a Margate museum is on a mission to change politics
What do capitalism, colonialism and the climate crisis have to do with crustaceans?
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Cop15: the most important summit you’ve never heard of
This month’s UN biodiversity summit is a “last chance” for much of the earth’s nature abundance.
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The natural world is vanishing before it has even reached our eyes
From resentful crows to narwhal tusks, we understand only a fraction of the Earth’s beauty. And now we risk losing…
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Margaret Atwood: Why I write dystopias
The Booker winner’s novels tend to imagine bleaker futures. Why not create something more optimistic?
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The Tory “attack on nature” will undermine UK security
From fracking to farm subsidies, degrading nature is no way to guarantee supply.
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How are animals adapting to climate change?
Books by Thor Hanson and Emma Marris offer fascinating insights into how species are surviving and what we must do…
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Utopia in the age of climate crisis
Half-Earth Socialism proposes democratic planning to navigate environmental catastrophe, but leaves vital questions unanswered.
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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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Peat, pesticides and plastic: how British gardeners are destroying the planet
The UK government should urgently agree a ban on peat in horticultural products.
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Protests, nature protection and plant-based meat: ten climate and environment predictions for 2022
Our environment editor identifies some key trends in the year to come, and looks at why building back better after…
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“We grow meat from cells, they are just not connected to a cow”: Didier Toubia on the future of farming
Reducing the environmental impact of meat is becoming big business. The CEO of Aleph Farms explains why he is betting…
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Where have all the sparrows gone?
For millennia the house sparrow has thrived alongside humanity, now its halved population offers a warning.
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