Research stories

State of Nature: Ecologists have collected the evidence, now it’s time to act

In an article written for the British Ecological Society, Yadvinder Malhi reflects on the Sate of Nature report, published yesterday, September 27th. The latest State of Nature Report rings ...

The Monbiot-Savory event: We need a common language if anyone is to have a constructive debate

The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery is interested in promoting a wide variety of views and opinions on nature recovery from researchers and practitioners. If you are interested ...

How to help wildlife thrive in our urban grasslands, verges and gardens

Meadows Buglife: Managing urban areas for pollinators Buglife: Management of wildflower-rich grasslands for insects Plantlife: Meadow hub Plantlife: No Mow May Monmouthshire County Council ‘Nature isn’t Neat’ initiative (part of the Gwent Green ...

Urban grassland & verge guidelines

Why do we need to change the way we manage urban grass? Although uniformly short grass used to be seen as a sign of good management, people now are ...

Green Action Week: Professor EJ Milner-Gulland discusses how the whole University community needs to pull together to deliver on our environmental commitments

As Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, I work broadly on ways to make humanity’s relationship to nature more sustainable. That’s why I was so proud to be a ...

Organisations making their catering more sustainable can make genuine positive contributions.

Organisations making their catering more sustainable can make genuine positive contributions, though it will take extremely ambitious action to come close to fully mitigating biodiversity loss. A study published ...