News and Opinion

Healing the rift around GM crops

BES member Joanna Wolstenholme explores how a more constructive dialogue might be built around GM crops.

People, Politics and the Planet: Any Questions - Storify

What next for the UK environment post-Brexit?

Discussions from the People, Politics and the Planet: Any Questions event

Write up of the discussion held at the People, Politics and the Planet: Any Questions event

Environmental Audit Committee releases report on soil health

EAC calls on Government to put soil protection at the heart of environmental policy

The Soil Health Inquiry - clearer than mud

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”

REFIT of the Birds and Habitats Directives- Draft emerging findings.

Europe’s wood pastures: condemned to a slow death by the CAP?

The International Year of Soils – 10 months in

The NFU, the EU and you: what can ecologists learn from the National Farming Union’s stock take?

Culling badgers to control cattle tuberculosis – a black and white issue?

Got Questions? Plant Scientists Have the Answers

Greenhouse gas: why nitrous oxide is no laughing matter for the environment

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Crops: New POSTnote Launched