Reindeer herding and forest management can be better integrated to benefit nature restoration, conservation and commercial wood production.
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Lichens bridge the living and non-living – understanding them allows us to better see how to conserve our heritage, and also ourselves.
Despite being known to science for over a century thanks to a few early pioneering marine mycologists, most people have never heard of marine fungi.
Symbiosis is so much part of life on Earth that it has shaped the evolution and structure of cells. It’s happening almost everywhere we look, including inside our gut.
Writers have challenged oppression, exposed social injustices and advocated for political change.
Only fragments of Britain’s “temperate rainforest” remain – here’s some tips to help you identify one when you come across it.
We compiled the first list of Antarctic species and where they were first found. This knowledge means we can now protect all of the icy continent’s species.
While many surveys show the numbers of wildlife falling, there is good news for some species – including pondskaters and various mosses and lichen.
Images of wildfires are powerful, but can make climate catastrophe seem like something spectacular and distant. So some artists are focusing on the plants and bugs in our immediate surroundings.
The winter of 2018-19 claimed 200 reindeer in Svalbard, Norway, according to a recent census.
New evidence suggests that Homo naledi didn’t deliberately deposit their dead in a hidden chamber.
Mosses and lichens have the ability to accumulate and retain air pollutants.
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