Plantwatch: kelp – forgotten forests that help tackle climate crisis

There are forgotten forests in Britain that are largely neglected and often abused, yet they combat…

US national parks cause public health concern as visitors flood in

Even as Broadway shows were shuttered and Disneyland was closed due to the Covid-19, most US…

2020 European Tree of the Year – in pictures

Belgium: the Tree of Freedom of the Waret Citizens Age: 223-year-old. Species: horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum).…

UK’s first ‘super’ national nature reserve created in Dorset

It is a rich, complex landscape, a mosaic of heaths, woods, mires, reed beds, salt marsh…

Pine tree near flooded Czech village voted European tree of the year

A lonely pine tree believed by superstitious locals to act as sentinel over a flooded Czech…

Air pollution likely to increase coronavirus death rate, warn experts

The health damage inflicted on people by long-standing air pollution in cities is likely to increase…