Author Archives: Mike Andrews

As renewable energy demand rises, mining for critical minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point Mining for gold in Suriname. Yolanda Ariadne Collins, CC BY-NC-ND Yolanda Ariadne Collins, University of St Andrews Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for … Continue reading →

The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C Melting Antarctic glacier. Shutterstock/Bernhard Staehli James Dyke, University of Exeter; Robert Watson, University of East Anglia, and Wolfgang Knorr, Lund … Continue reading →

New solar farms can benefit nature – here’s how Fabio Carvalho, Lancaster University and Alona Armstrong, Lancaster University If you were told solar farms could take up to 0.3% of the total land area in the UK by 2035, would you … Continue reading →

One garden, one year and one woman’s mission to make space for urban wildlife Duqie/Shutterstock Elizabeth Nicholls, University of Sussex UK gardens cover a total area of 4,000 square kilometres – that’s a quarter of the size of Wales – and … Continue reading →

We’ve discovered the world’s trees absorb methane – so forests are even more important in the climate fight than we thought Researchers measure methane exchange on upland trees in Peru. Vincent Gauci, CC BY-ND Vincent Gauci, University of Birmingham Tree bark … Continue reading →

Cumbria coal mine shows planning is the next battleground in UK climate policy Gareth Fearn, University of Manchester and Pancho Lewis, Lancaster University Last week the UK’s new Labour government made a bold decision. The new minister for local government, Angela … Continue reading →

Green belt land just isn’t that green anymore DifferR/Shutterstock Ben Mayfield, Lancaster University The new UK government’s plans to “get Britain building” include the reintroduction of targets to build 1.5 million new houses, which is likely to encroach on some of … Continue reading →