By boosting dominant species such as great tits, human-provided food can make life harder for many woodland birdsFeeding birds is hard-wired into our national psyche. The apocryphal Victorian “tuppence a bag” for seed for the Trafalgar Square pigeons h…
Australia is ‘more and more isolated’ on climate, former EU trade commissioner says
Cecilia Malmström warned climate change is an urgent global crisis and Australia, as a big economy and big emitter, needs to do moreGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe former European Union trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmström, ha…
「深宇宙を旅する技術」をつくり、ついでに地球の問題を解決する：21歳の化学者が二酸化炭素回収技術に見る夢
化学者で発明家の村木風海は、二酸化炭素の回収とその有効活用によって、地球の課題と宇宙探査の課題を同時に解決しようと考えている。19歳で一般社団法人炭素回収技術研究機構（CRRA）を創設し、CO2回収マシーン「ひやっしー」や空気から燃料を製造する技術の開発、有人火星探査の研究などを進める彼に、脱炭素技術の先に描く未来について訊いた。
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Is democracy getting in the way of saving the planet? | Kate Aronoff
Our climate is in crisis, but authoritarians and technocrats don’t have the answersWhat the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report confirmed this month is that the stable climate many of us grew up with is gone and has been replaced by a fu…
Meat wars: why Biden wants to break up the powerful US beef industry
As the pandemic drives calls for a radical overhaul of the food system, can the president take on the meat giants?Both the planet and US politics have heated up in tandem over recent decades, but few sectors have stewed in controversy quite like Americ…
Beavers to make ‘cautious’ return to England with legal protection
The government is launching a consultation on more reintroductions to the wild after a successful trial in DevonBeavers will be released into the wild under government proposals to support a “cautious” return of the semi-aquatic mammals to English rive…
‘How is it sustainable if only 1% can afford your food?’: the man on a quest to change farming
Chris Newman, founder of Virginia-based Sylvanaqua Farms, on why feeding people needs to be at the heart of sustainable farmingChris Newman, 38, and his wife, Annie, 35, always planned to retire with a farm. But after a health scare in 2013, the couple…
From 1m trees to a tree graveyard: how Dubai’s conservation plans went awry
Hundreds of thousands of trees have died after costly real estate projects thwarted attempts to halt desertificationIt all began so beautifully, with the ruler of Dubai photographed planting the first tree of his ambitious environmental initiative, as …
Here in British Columbia, we have spent the summer running from cruel wildfires | Mary Stockdale
Blazes are destroying whole communities. The Canadian government must act now to tackle this existential threatSmall fires crackle into life on the hills around us at the slightest provocation. Creeks swell with flash floods, as upland snow melts at re…
Exit pursued by a marsh harrier: why I wrote a play for nature reserves | Steve Waters
Created deep in the fens of East Anglia, Murmurations is a new drama about conservation in the age of extinctionIt’s not been a great year for playwriting. In March 2020 I was deep in casting for a revival of my plays on climate change, The Contingency…