The Tollund Man was c. 30-40 years old when he died by hanging c. 405-380 BCE. He wasfound in 1950 in a bog c. 10 km west of ...

Secondary-school students stack freshly cut turf to dry in Clonbullogue, Ireland, whose bogs supply fuel for homes around the region. Irish laws bar commercial-scale harvesting of peat for burning ...

A wetland is a stew of botanical life and can absorb and release heat from the sun. Try taking a whirl through these four ...

Far from being ‘unspoiled’, the landscape has been seriously degraded over many decades by a combination of sheep grazing, ...

But landscapes can be restored in ways that reduce both flood risk and the effects of drought. At Smithills Estate near Bolton, the Mersey Forest (Cheshire and Merseyside’s community forest), ...

Have you ever wondered what those white pellets were in your potting soil? Well, it's more important than you may know.

From urban community gardens and ambitious rural tree-planting to sustainability initiatives involving whole towns, the chase ...

The author notes that hydrangeas, which are perennial everywhere, are noted for being pink or red growing in alkaline soil ...

Efforts to restore the environment are revitalising the job market in the Cairngorms National Park and changing lives for the ...

Ralph Sheppard is an ecologist living in Donegal, where he has been monitoring the birds since the 1950s. This is an extract from his book The Birds of County Donegal ...

ESTELLE Bailey, chief executive of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, received an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours list. The award, which is for services to nature recovery ...