Populations of the UK’s most important wildlife have plummeted by an average of 60% since 1970, according to the most comprehensive analysis to date, the State of Nature report. The…
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The Atlantic Ocean is “running out of breath”
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019A huge international research programme has been launched to assess the health of the Atlantic Ocean. The iAtlantic project is the biggest ever mounted in the planet’s second largest ocean….
Habitat loss endangers ecological relationships
Thursday, May 30th, 2019Habitat loss is the leading cause of biodiversity loss worldwide. Depending on their size, animals need a given amount of area to be able to find enough resources to maintain…
UN issues world alert over species extinction rates
Friday, May 10th, 2019Humanity faces an ecological catastrophe after dragging one million species of animals and plants towards extinction, a devastating report by the world’s leading scientists has said. The United Nations (UN) alert…
Restoring degraded oyster beds and reefs
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019When we think of mass habitat extinction, colourful, diverse and highly visible ecosystems such as tropical rain forests and coral reefs come to mind. Approximately half of global shallow water…
UK will miss almost all 2020 nature targets
Monday, March 25th, 2019The UK will miss almost all the 2020 nature targets it signed up to a decade ago, according to a report by the government’s official advisers. The nation is failing…
