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“There are no guidelines. There’s no respect. There’s absolutely zero transparency. It’s awful," staff at Twitter told i as the dramatic instability at the social media company grows each day

Reflections from Wes Smyth, Natural England’s Area Manager on how we ensure Dartmoor’s unique wildlife is preserved for future generations. Dartmoor is special, a working landscape with wide open moorland framed by steep intimate wooded valleys and a pastoral moorland …

The Ohio train crash has highlighted concerns about the consequences of pollution - and the impact on soil and water quality if highly hazardous petrochemicals leak into the environment.

Exploring the potential of Biodiversity credits as the default offsetting mechanism

By Donella Meadows~ Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything. This idea is not unique to systems analysis — […]

A long, winding journey to find out why companies treat their chicken broth recipes like state secrets.

Advice from Farm Carbon Toolkit's Becky Willson on which soil testing method is most appropriate for your purposes. Learn more about soil testing here.

In this episode I talk to Sir Patrick Holden, head of The Sustainable Food Trust and 50-year farmer and sustainable food activist. You'll hear us talk about his latest research into how the UK could feed itself using fertiliser/pesticide-free sustainable agriculture (with no grain-fed animals!), the

The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.

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The Connecting the Culm project has been working with nature and local communities, to help make the River Culm and its catchment better for wildlife and peo...

I’ve spent a lot of time in my life trying to force myself to do things. Really good things. Things that are important to me. Things like meditating, journaling, going... READ MORE

What I’ve learned on the journey to happiness.

What a future land use framework might look like

Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in agricultural soils removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and contributes towards achieving carbon …

A safe and just operating space for socioecological systems is a powerful bridging concept in sustainability science. It integrates biophysical earth-…

Touted as a cure for environmental and physical ills, the organic movement is falling short of high expectations

Every human and natural system -- from oil extraction to the flight of a flock of starlings -- can be seen as a set of repeating patterns. These patterns can be disrupted for good or for bad, says Nigel Topping, the High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26, the UN's climate change conference set to take place in November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. He shares three rules of radical collaboration that could positively disrupt the patterns of the global economy and help humanity tackle the world's greatest threat: climate change.

The House of Lords Land Use Committee has published its report, ’Making the most out of England’s Land’.

Solving social problems is difficult enough, but when you're not even sure how to define the problem, things get even tougher

In summer, we announced the 22 projects chosen for the first round of Landscape Recovery. We initially said we would recruit up to 15 projects, but we were so impressed with the quality of applications that we ended up extending this to 22. In this post, I’ll share more about the projects, including how they were assessed and selected.

Hannah Fry uncovers the secrets behind the miraculous technologies of the modern world.

Sallerton Wood - the conservation, management and sustainable utilization of a traditional working woodland in the Tamar Valley, Devon - Cornwall border. Courses in green woodworking are offered.

There is a growing momentum around managing biodiversity impacts and understanding natural capital dependencies. There are an increasing number of ini...

How can organic and regenerative farming work together to help the global food system become better for climate and nature?

Is organic produce better for you? Can organic farming feed the world? Those might be the wrong questions.

One farmer’s quest to find black oats has broadened into a project that could rediversify the country’s cereals and meet future climate challenges