Biodiversity
The Big Apple gets a tiny forest: 1,000 native plants coming to New York
City’s first pocket forest, aimed at increasing biodiversity, will spring up in April on 2,700 sq ft of Manhattan’s Roosevelt Island
Aliya Uteuova in New York
14, Mar, 2024 @2:00 PM
Quest to declare Anthropocene an epoch descends into epic row
Vote against formal geological recognition of ‘age of the humans’ is claimed to have violated committee rules
Damian Carrington Environment editor
07, Mar, 2024 @1:16 PM
Carved up and sold off: developers plan a ‘new Miami’ in Argentina’s nature-rich wetlands
The Paraná delta has been called ‘Earth’s fourth lung’. But local people say they and the area’s diverse flora and fauna are being pushed aside in favour of private beaches, spas and helipads
Harriet Barber in the Paraná delta, Argentina
07, Mar, 2024 @12:52 PM
Weatherwatch: how solar farms benefit bees and butterflies
Research shows pollinating insects thrive in solar parks, particularly where a variety of plants are flourishing
Paul Brown
01, Mar, 2024 @6:00 AM
Scrap subsidies to Scotland’s conifer forests, urges report
Royal Society of Edinburgh says money should be spent on longer-living native forests with greater biodiversity benefits
Severin Carrell Scotland editor
29, Feb, 2024 @9:00 AM
Did a marine heatwave cause 7,000 humpback whales to starve to death?
Populations were recovering, but a new study reveals that numbers dropped by 20% coinciding with a period of record temperatures in the North Pacific
Brianna Randall
28, Feb, 2024 @7:01 AM
European parliament votes for watered-down law to restore nature
EU target aims to restore at least 20% of land and sea ecosystems by 2030 despite farmers’ protests and rightwing opposition
Ajit Niranjan
27, Feb, 2024 @2:31 PM
‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming
Biodiversity campaigner Isabella Tree says wild areas work ‘hand in glove’ with food production as her Sussex estate boasts return of endangered species
Donna Ferguson
25, Feb, 2024 @11:00 AM
Colombia vows to put nature at the heart of global environmental negotiations
The country’s environment minister says nature is a ‘pillar’ of fighting the climate crisis
Patrick Greenfield
23, Feb, 2024 @5:00 AM
UK government can never accept idea nature has rights, delegate tells UN
Dismissal of concept already recognised in UN declarations described as shameful, contradictory and undemocratic
Jonathan Watts
22, Feb, 2024 @6:44 PM
I discovered a way to identify the millions of species on Earth after a lightbulb moment in the supermarket
I developed DNA barcoding in my back yard using a UV light and a white sheet to collect the moths of my childhood. I believe it could help discover all life on the planet
Paul Hebert
22, Feb, 2024 @10:30 AM
‘Taking the pulse of the planet’: could we monitor biodiversity from space as we do the weather?
With current data on global biodiversity either lacking or flawed, a global satellite scheme aims to fill the gaps to target protection of our seas, soils and wildlife
Patrick Greenfield
22, Feb, 2024 @6:00 AM
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