Cornwall space launch: why launching rockets from UK soil can benefit industry and security

Efforts to launch rockets into space from the UK need to demonstrate reliability.

Craig Underwood, Professor, University of Surrey • conversation
Feb. 3, 2023 • ~8 min

Dartmoor wild camping ban shows why Britain needs a universal right to roam

Piecemeal legislation is easily unpicked, as the recent high court ruling showed.

Ben Mayfield, Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University • conversation
Jan. 23, 2023 • ~7 min

Squirrelpox outbreak detected in north Wales – without a vaccine, the disease will keep decimating red squirrels

There is no single, straightforward way to safeguard the future of this native mammal at the moment – but here are some options

Craig Shuttleworth, Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Bangor University • conversation
Dec. 21, 2022 • ~6 min

Underwater videos could help explain why thousands of starfish are stranded on Welsh beaches

Thousands of starfish are dying of Welsh beaches but videos may help explain why.

Emma Sheehan, Associate Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Plymouth • conversation
Jan. 6, 2022 • ~5 min

Harvard-led research on ancient Britain spans language, ancestry, kinship, milk

Two new studies highlight technological advances in large-scale genomics and open windows into the lives of ancient people.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Dec. 23, 2021 • ~6 min

Coal mining in Wales: the 1930s writers who depicted the environmental calamity caused by the pits

The miners might be fondly remembered, but literature helps us bear in mind the environmental damage the industry caused.

Seth Armstrong Twigg, Doctoral Researcher in Welsh industrial literature, Cardiff University • conversation
Aug. 24, 2020 • ~6 min

Coal mining in Wales: the 1930s writers who warned of environmental calamity caused by pits

The miners might be fondly remembered, but literature helps us bear in mind the environmental damage the industry caused.

Seth Armstrong Twigg, Doctoral Researcher in Welsh industrial literature, Cardiff University • conversation
Aug. 24, 2020 • ~6 min

Climate change could wreck traditional sheep farming in Wales

Recent summers have offered a taste of things to come for Welsh farmers.

Mariecia Fraser, Reader in Upland Agroecology, Aberystwyth University • conversation
May 4, 2020 • ~6 min

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