Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

The cover image for our December issue shows germination day one of European Hazel, Corylus avellana. The yellow radicle breaks through the nut wall and elongates into the substrate over the following fortnight. This image relates to the article, Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Corylus avellana, by Damien Hicks. Here, Damien tells us the story behind the image: The […]

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (Catholic Church England, Flickr) Photo license   (Seychelles News Agency) – The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, has sent a message of condolence to Pope Francis I, following the announcement of the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Saturday, December 31, aged 95. “It is with great sadness and […]

The European Commission and European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) have invited EAVOR-LOOP to prepare a grant agreement to finance the first commercial-scale implementation of an innovative closed-loop geothermal technology. EAVOR-LOOP is a highly scalable geothermal energy project in Germany which extracts heat from the earth through conduction and will provide clean, dispatchable […]

How much carbon is stored in the aboveground biomass (AGB) of Wytham Woods aka the ‘most studied forest in the world’? Professors Mat Disney and Kim Calders thought this would be very well-known but were surprised to find this perhaps wasn’t the case after all. They discuss how their team approached their latest research. Over […]

Viscum Album. Photograph by Jonathan Briggs. It’s part of Christmas – hanging up the mistletoe and stealing kisses beneath it.  But as we think more about green issues, can we still justify this?  Mistletoe is not a common plant in most parts of Britain, so is the annual custom of picking it to kiss under […]

by Gael O’Brien It’s no secret: Americans disagree sharply about politics. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, Republicans and Democrats on average “… are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.” That presents a particular problem for corporate leaders. A 2022 study by the non-partisan National Bureau of […]

(AFP) – The world’s eight billion people have been ushering in 2023, bidding farewell to a turbulent year marked by war in Europe, stinging price rises, Lionel Messi’s World Cup glory and the deaths of Queen Elizabeth, Pele and former pope Benedict. Many set aside pinched budgets and a virus that is increasingly forgotten, but […]

We are delighted to announce two new Blog Associate Editors who have joined The Applied Ecologist team! Valentine introduced herself earlier this month so in this post, find out more our other new recruit – Catherine Waite. Hi everyone, I’m Catherine, one of the new Associate Editors for The Applied Ecologist. It’s great to be […]

Shah said that Seychelles is losing biodiversity without knowing it because they are not being monitored and not enough is known about them. (Gerard Larose) Photo license   (Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles continues to lose known and unknown biodiversity due to a lack of funding, manpower and a democratic mechanism to disburse available funding, said […]

This story was first published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom, and is republished with permission. Google’s ad business hides nearly all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. We uncovered a network containing manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation. In late 2021, the right-wing site Conservative Beaver published a […]