Digest Biodiversity Rules & Cottagecore Clothes The latest news on nature and conservation in Britain.
Feature Wild swimming is losing its wildness Restrictions on swimming at Grantchester Meadows represent a growing trend for bureaucracy. Disadvantaged communities will be first to suffer.
Feature 'It is treated as a commodity to be conquered': Can mountain tourism ever be truly sustainable? Fragile mountain environments are too often damaged in the race for the summit. Slow tourism offers a better way.
Feature How reviving nature tables could restore wonder to the classroom In the sixties, tables covered in rocks and shells were a common feature in schools. Is it time they made a comeback?
Extract The bleak, industrial beauty of Scotland's heather moorlands Ecology and aesthetics clash amid Scotland's blooming uplands.
Feature The grand plan to rewild Somerleyton Estate – including the return of the lynx The Knepp Estate may hog the limelight, but another rewilding project of a similar scale is unfolding in East Anglia.
Essay 'Our hikes were a political statement': The Sheffield walkers reclaiming 2,000 years of rural history When Maxwell Ayamba set up a hiking group for middle-aged Black men in 2004, he didn't realise it would be such a revolutionary act.
Feature Less than 15% of councils have declared an Ecological Emergency. Why the delay? In comparison, 83% of county and unitary authorities have declared a Climate Emergency.
Resources Ecological Emergency declarations: additional resources We've pulled together all the key documents, actions, quotes and media reports for councils that have declared an Ecological Emergency.
Feature How is your local council managing its roadside verges? Exclusive: With the right interventions, road verges can become a haven for wildflowers. We asked every council in England for its management regime.
Feature Road verges: full responses from councils A compilation of all the responses we received from councils in the course of our investigation on road verge management.
Feature One quarter of English councils have plans to rewild. Does yours? Exclusive: We asked every council in England about whether they were rewilding – and what they were spending to make it happen. Here's what we found out.
Feature Rewilding: full responses from councils A compilation of all the responses we received from councils in the course of our investigation on rewilding.
Feature Photo essay: How the English engage with nature In his photo series, In a Green Shade, Michael Wharley seeks to portray what nature means in England today.
Feature 'An alternative reality': how sound recordings reveal the secret world of ponds In capturing the music of freshwater life, scientists have found a new way to measure underwater biodiversity.
