Ideas ‘Dark vessels’ are being tracked from space to stop illegal fishing Satellite technology is being brought in to help combat problems with unregulated fishing in coastal nations.
Ideas Climate app for kids forces adults to sit up and listen A fun, eco-friendly app is engaging children with the climate crisis through interactive artwork.
Outdoor No experience required: Could you be the UK’s first Bison herder? Rangers will manage four of these huge mammals after they are released into a woodland near Canterbury, Kent.
Ideas Satellites are being used to help save the world’s coral reefs This project aims to make it faster, cheaper and easier to save the world’s precious coral reef systems.
Ideas World leaders restart vital environmental talks after Covid delay The One Planet Summit hopes to reignite discussions about protecting nature and people.
Outdoor Golf is a giant board game damaging the planet: Time for it to go "It’s time we, as a society, admit that golf was a bad idea and move on," argues Abbie Richards.
Ideas How to tell the difference between tree-planting schemes and scams As more companies use trees to lure in customers, Ariel Maldonado explains how to spot a greenwashing scam.
Outdoor Europe’s largest land mammal brought back from the brink of extinction 25 other endangered species have also seen improvements from conservation efforts according to the IUCN.
Ideas Human ‘stuff’ will soon weigh more than all living things on Earth The mass of human made objects has doubled every 20 years since the beginning of the 20th century.
Outdoor Four lions test positive for coronavirus in Barcelona Among them, three older females and a four-year-old male.
Ideas What is Remembrance Day for Lost Species and why does it matter? Award-winning writers, actors and creatives are coming together to mourn animals already lost to extinction.
Outdoor What is ghost fishing and why is it killing dolphins? It can lead to a slow, painful death for aquatic animals.
Ideas Traffickers are smuggling reptiles into Europe ‘under their clothes’ Rare tortoise species can be worth up to €30,000 when sold on the black market.
Ideas Invasive plants could be turned into textiles, research shows A laboratory in Marseille, France is looking for ways to mix design and biology.
Outdoor What can we learn from Indigenous groups about how to respect nature? We might be in the middle of an extinction crisis, but Indigenous Peoples can show us how to protect biodiversity.
Outdoor US imports are helping to drive the ‘silent extinction’ of giraffes Giraffes parts are used for items such as bible covers, shoes and jackets.
Ideas ‘Extinction is forever’: World leaders pledge to end biodiversity loss The British government has made a huge commitment to safeguard nature.
Outdoor EU must end overfishing to protect our oceans, say scientists More than 300 experts have signed a statement to ask limits on fishing to be brought in line with scientific recommendations.
Ideas Two-thirds of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970 WWF has proposed a plan to ‘fundamentally change the way that we deal with the loss of nature’
Cuisine Plant-based diets could remove over a decade of global CO2 emissions Research shows how reducing our meat consumption could "drastically" reduce the effects of climate change.
Outdoor How has thirty years of logging saved the rainforest in Guatemala? A community-led programme in the Maya Biosphere Reserve is revolutionising how we think about conservation.
Ideas The younger you are, the less you notice climate change, says study What is considered normal can change over time as younger generations forget what things used to be like.
Outdoor Cameroon halts plans for logging in biodiversity hotspot Local communities are still concerned that the fate of the forest remains unclear.
Outdoor 6 million euros allocated to save animals impacted by coronavirus How have elephants, rhinos, giraffes, pangolins and marine species been affected by the pandemic?
Ideas Europe falls behind Asia and Africa for UN climate action goals Major efforts are needed to “accelerate progress towards climate mitigation and biodiversity protections”.
Outdoor Why is roadkill an environmental disaster? But it might not be the animals most vulnerable to extinction who are at risk.
Outdoor ‘Time to finance nature’: Protecting the planet leads to economic gain A new study from the Campaign for Nature has found that wildlife conservation pays off for the global economy.
Ideas Planting grass is key to prevent future Australian wildfires Ecologists say native grasses could be crucial in protecting the environment from future fires.
Ideas Company transforms unused industrial land into eco-island Could more industrial wastelands turn into nature reserves to help promote biodiversity?
Ideas What a 15-year-old and an 80-year-old can teach us about biodiversity One makes a difference in the Amazon, while the other effects change from his back garden in France.
