Chris Young

The paper, published in the avian science journal IBIS, reports on work looking at the number of wintering birds feeding on fields planted with plots of wild bird seed mix. In East Anglia, the research found that there were a significantly greater number and range of ...

The last decade has been the best for rivers since the industrial revolution, the Environment Agency said today.The Environment Agency has highlighted dramatic environmental and water quality improvements and the resulting recovery in species...

One-fifth of the world's mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish are threatened with extinction, according to a recent report. The study notes that there have been many conservation success stories, but far greater long-term resources are needed...

Although the value of biodiversity and ecosystem services has been recognised, it is still not fully integrated into policy-making. A new report has developed an action plan that recommends that...

Landscapes provide a broad range of services to society. To date, however, only few regional to continental scale studies assess the capacity of landscapes to provide...

Contents for:Vol 26 (1) Jan 2011 and Vol 26 (2) Feb 2011

The Joint Research Centre’s Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit (H07) has just completed a comprehensive collaborative project focusing exclusively on life in the soil. One of the resulting outputs is the first ever European Atlas of Soil Biodiversity. The atlas is a visually stunning publication...

This project represents the continuation and the capitalisation of the results and of the experiences achieved in the INTERREG IIIB MEDOC project.

More than a quarter of the UK's rare species have been discovered by a large scale biodiversity study of farmland on the Norfolk/Suffolk border.The University of East Anglia said its Breckland study revealed a "nationally important biodiversity hot-spot". A huge variety of species were identified, from the smallest gnat to birds, plants and mammals...

Researchers for the Forestry Commission Wales say flood risk could be reduced using the nation's forests. The climate change project FUTUREforest, run by Forestry Commission Wales, is experimenting with new ways in which the nation's forests can help reduce downstream flooding, as well as locking away millions of tons of carbon dioxide...