Brazil’s highland forest has been shaped by…
Prehistoric pollen records show that forest dynamics were driven by more than just broad-scale climatic changes.
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Why so many councils sell their parks' nature: the green belt's real story
England's green belt covers roughly 12.6% of the country yet was never a nature designation: its five statutory purposes are about stopping…
Elena Marsh
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Why food waste is a climate problem and what anaerobic digestion does
Food rotting in landfill emits methane roughly eighty times more warming than CO2 over twenty years, and England's new weekly caddy…
Elena Marsh
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Carbon offsets: what buying a tonne of forgiveness actually gets you
Investigations into the voluntary carbon market found many offsets represented avoided emissions that were never real, and the market is…
Priya Anand
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Why Britain keeps building houses on flood plains
Around a tenth of new English homes are built in flood-risk zones because housing targets, land economics and planning rules all point the…
Sarah Mitchell
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Sea level rise: what it means for Britain's coastal towns
Shoreline Management Plans already designate stretches of the English and Welsh coast for managed realignment or no active intervention…
Elena Marsh
Rewilding versus farming: the land-use argument splitting the countryside
Britain must grow food, store carbon and recover nature on the same finite land, and the rewilding argument is really about which acres…
Amelia Hart
Electric cars without a driveway: the on-street charging problem
A third of UK households have no off-street parking, and closing the gap between home-charging economics and public-charging reality is the…
Liam Chen
Where donated clothes actually go
Most clothes handed to UK charity shops are never sold there but graded, baled and exported by the tonne into a global second-hand trade…
Elena Marsh