Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health

Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal contaminants from the soil, which are

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 16, 2025 ~5 min

Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health

Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal contaminants from the soil, which are

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 16, 2025 ~5 min


If we must bring back extinct species, let’s focus on the giant herbivores

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

Timothy Neal Coulson, Professor of Zoology and Joint Head of Department of Biology, University of Oxford • conversation
April 15, 2025 ~7 min

Why ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves are a Trojan horse to hide humanity’s destruction of nature

Extinction is, for the time being, forever – and a symptom of our global economic system.

Rich Grenyer, Associate Professor in Biogeography and Biodiversity, University of Oxford • conversation
April 14, 2025 ~8 min

Can we really resurrect extinct animals, or are we just creating hi-tech lookalikes?

Are new approaches to recreating long-lost animals simply creating imitations?

Timothy Hearn, Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Anglia Ruskin University • conversation
April 10, 2025 ~9 min

When farmers and scientists collaborate, biodiversity and agriculture can thrive – here’s how

Farmers can take ownership of nature recovery actions and scientific expertise can adapt to local knowledge in the design of environmental outcomes.

Matt Lobley, Professor of Rural Resource Management, University of Exeter • conversation
April 1, 2025 ~8 min

Rivers are increasingly being given legal rights. Now they need people who will defend these rights in court

Let’s train an army of nature protectors to speak for nature itself – not for what it can provide for humans.

Oluwabusayo Wuraola, Lecturer in Law, Anglia Ruskin University • conversation
March 28, 2025 ~8 min

As federal environmental priorities shift, sovereign Native American nations have their own plans

Tribal governance takes a long view based in Native peoples’ deep history with these lands.

Alyssa Kreikemeier, Assistant Professor of History, University of Idaho • conversation
March 28, 2025 ~11 min


Ecological disruptions are a risk to national security

Overfishing, disease and environmental crimes cause social and political instability, economic strife and strained international relations.

Rod Schoonover, Adjunct Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University • conversation
March 27, 2025 ~9 min

Atlantic sturgeon were fished almost to extinction − ancient DNA reveals how Chesapeake Bay population changed over centuries

Research that combined archaeology, history and ecology provides a nuanced understanding of the past that could help conservationists better plan for the future.

Logan Kistler, Curator of Archaeobotany and Archaeogenomics, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution • conversation
March 20, 2025 ~11 min

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