Trees and forests

Colder and wiser: how to keep plants alive in the Australian winter
Gardening during the colder months comes with a unique set of challenges. From more frost to less light, here’s how to overcome six of them
Shona Hendley
02, Jul, 2022 @8:00 PM

Living in a tree is the only way to save it from pointless destruction | Tim Adams
A man in a hammock is determined to stop Haringey council felling a tree in a row over subsidence
Tim Adams
02, Jul, 2022 @2:00 PM

Woodland Trust calls for protections for England’s 2.1m ancient trees
Conservation group wants to ‘drive cultural shift’ to designate trees and woodlands ‘as fundamental to quality of life’
Esther Addley
01, Jul, 2022 @3:52 PM

Study suggests existence of up to 2.1m ancient and veteran trees in England
Researchers find there could be many more ancient trees than previously recorded, amid calls for better protections
Helena Horton and Patrick Barkham
30, Jun, 2022 @5:00 AM

Emissions warning: calls to stop ‘skyrocketing’ land clearing in NSW
NSW Labor and others warn failure to bring land clearing under control is ‘unsustainable’ and threatens Coalition pledge to cut emissions by 2030
Lisa Cox
30, Jun, 2022 @3:56 AM

Butterflywatch: the white-letter hairstreak’s fortunes are tied to our elms
In our writer’s garden, and across the country, the scourge of Dutch elm disease has not been entirely eliminated
Patrick Barkham
29, Jun, 2022 @5:00 AM

Harsher anti-protest laws targeting environmentalists are putting greed before green | Bob Brown
Penalties for peaceful action are now the same as for aggravated assault
Bob Brown
27, Jun, 2022 @1:35 AM

Banks and UK supermarkets accused of backing deforestation in Brazil
By funding and stocking products from Brazilian meat giant JBS, firms have also supported land-grabbing, investigation claims
Sophie Kevany
24, Jun, 2022 @6:05 PM

Dom Phillips obituary
Brazil-based UK journalist and author who championed the role of Indigenous people in saving the Amazon
Jonathan Watts
24, Jun, 2022 @2:40 PM

Britain’s vanishing rainforests must be protected, say campaigners
Analysis reveals 73% of remaining fragments of rare temperate rainforest in England are not under protection
Patrick Greenfield
23, Jun, 2022 @9:30 AM

‘We make nature here’: pioneering Dutch project repairs image after outcry over starving animals
Oostvaardersplassen reserve reshaped conservation in the 1980s as nature was allowed to take its course, now it is rewilding in a more managed way
Phoebe Weston
21, Jun, 2022 @5:15 AM

‘Bolsonaro’s fingerprints are all over this’: how president’s war on Amazon played part in double killing
Brazil’s leader has steadily attacked those defending the region where journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira lost their lives
Andrew Downie in São Paulo
18, Jun, 2022 @3:00 PM
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