Marbled white butterfly. Iain H Leach/Butterfly Conservation, CC BY-ND Marcus Rhodes, University of Exeter Butterflies are important bellwethers of environmental change. Highly sensitive to climatic conditions and undergoing large fluctuations in abundance from year to year due to vagaries of … Continue reading
StockStudio Aerials Matthew Carl Ives, University of Oxford; Belinda Wade, The University of Queensland, and Saphira Rekker, The University of Queensland Just 57 companies and nation states were responsible for generating 80% of the world’s CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels … Continue reading
Daniel Pahmeier/Shutterstock Tonya Lander, University of Oxford and Matthias Becher, University of Exeter Wild bees pollinate the crops and wild plants that feed us and sustain entire ecosystems, but many of the world’s 20,000 bee species are in decline. Loss … Continue reading
Making a few simple eco-friendly food choices can be healthy and cost-effective too. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Katherine Appleton, Bournemouth University and Danielle Guy, Bournemouth University Do I choose the meat in my local store or drive out of town for … Continue reading
William Perry, Cardiff University The recent surge in public scrutiny over untreated sewage in waterways paints a stark picture of the UK’s ageing sewer network. Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are a legacy of a bygone era. Victorian combined sewers, designed … Continue reading
