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17.02.19

A Convenient Untruth
Simon Fairlie

Livestock get blamed for more global warming than they cause, argues Simon Fairlie

31.12.18

Of Cages and Hedges
Chris Smaje

In China, the proportion of people working in agriculture has dropped by two thirds since 1991. Chris Smaje investigates.

31.12.18

Power Where It's Needed
Mike Hannis

Mike Hannis watches nuclear dominoes falling.

31.12.18

Where The Wild Things Went
Gill Barron

Gill Barron looks into the origins of domestication.

29.12.18

The Wildness Delusion
Gavin Saunders

Gavin Saunders ponders the place of people in the rewilding project.

18.06.18

May 1968 in the Countryside
Simon Fairlie

Simon Fairlie connects 'the events' of 1968 in France to recent struggles over the ZAD.

16.06.18

Net Profits
Emma Cardwell

Emma Cardwell on fisheries, dispossession and calls to ‘reclaim our seas’.

16.06.18

Groundhog Day for the Cumbrian Ostrich
Mike Hannis

Mike Hannis asks who will end up with Britain’s nuclear waste.

14.06.18

A Many-Hatted Man
Gill Barron

Gill Barron remembers Walter Lloyd, pioneer of the coppicing revival.

31.05.18

Colour in the Landscape
Nick Hayes

Disturbing colonial histories shape the countryside on Nick Hayes’s doorstep.

Farmer stacking hay