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Information addiction is rotting our brains

Learning to feel OK with unpredictability can bring great rewards. Just ask the world’s scientists and artists who embrace doubts and the unknown

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

In our latest webinar, partner Angus Walker introduces the latest state of play on biodiversity net gain (BNG) including the government’s consultation respon...

It has been great to see the growing amount of coverage in the news about Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), including a recent episode of BBC Countryfile. Under the Government’s flagship Environment Bill, both Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA) and …

In this post, I’ll share a few scientific examples of how the actions within the Sustainable Farming Incentive can support businesses, bring about positive environmental outcomes whilst maintaining — and in some cases boosting — food production.

‘Andor’ showrunner Tony Gilroy tells all about making season 1 of ‘Andor’ (including episode 10's spectacular prison break), responds to critics, previews Season 2 and much, much more

The event, a first for Shaftesbury School, was called ‘Louder than Words’ and it more than certainly lived up to that name! At midday, in front of those fam...

Overproduction of cash crops, vast monocultures of chemical-dependent grains and massive animal agriculture operations are putting major stress not just on U.S. farmland — where they’re contributing to soil erosion, groundwater depletion and climate change — but these practices are also impacting areas such as the Brazilian Cerrado, where more than half the huge savanna […]

Regenesis starts harmlessly enough. In his first chapter George Monbiot illustrates the complexities of soil structure by describing what he sees when he looks at a sod dug up from his orchard through a 40x magnifying eyepiece.

“There are no guidelines. There’s no respect. There’s absolutely zero transparency. It’s awful," staff at Twitter told i as the dramatic instability at the social media company grows each day

Reflections from Wes Smyth, Natural England’s Area Manager on how we ensure Dartmoor’s unique wildlife is preserved for future generations. Dartmoor is special, a working landscape with wide open moorland framed by steep intimate wooded valleys and a pastoral moorland …

The Ohio train crash has highlighted concerns about the consequences of pollution - and the impact on soil and water quality if highly hazardous petrochemicals leak into the environment.

Exploring the potential of Biodiversity credits as the default offsetting mechanism

By Donella Meadows~ Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything. This idea is not unique to systems analysis — […]

A long, winding journey to find out why companies treat their chicken broth recipes like state secrets.

Advice from Farm Carbon Toolkit's Becky Willson on which soil testing method is most appropriate for your purposes. Learn more about soil testing here.

In this episode I talk to Sir Patrick Holden, head of The Sustainable Food Trust and 50-year farmer and sustainable food activist. You'll hear us talk about his latest research into how the UK could feed itself using fertiliser/pesticide-free sustainable agriculture (with no grain-fed animals!), the

The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.

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The Connecting the Culm project has been working with nature and local communities, to help make the River Culm and its catchment better for wildlife and peo...

I’ve spent a lot of time in my life trying to force myself to do things. Really good things. Things that are important to me. Things like meditating, journaling, going... READ MORE

What I’ve learned on the journey to happiness.