Melania’s shovel is cause for reflections on our complicated relationship with gardening tools
I admit I am a bit perverse in the use of my spring-tine rake – it works much better upside down…
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Jailing protesters will scare fracking’s opponents – but also galvanise them
The treatment of four men involved in a protest in Lancashire has been condemned as “draconian”.
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Springwatch host Chris Packham’s radical quest to end “the war on wildlife”
An Attenborough for the Anthropocene age.
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Moocall: the farming tech company modernising cow copulation
In an industry begging to be milked, Moocall is stepping in to turn farming digital.
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“We’ve always had spells of warm weather”: how 2018’s UK climate change communication fell short
How many “hottest ever” summers will it take for climate change scepticism to be dispelled for good?
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Don’t sit and watch your fruit turn brown – get in early and wage war on the spores
Gardeners must prevent the initial damage that allows the decay fungi to enter.
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Animal cruelty is part of our day-to-day language. But we can change it
When Trump calls opponents “dogs”, it’s not just racist and sexist – it’s also speciesist.
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The lesson of Kerala’s floods: empower local people before it’s too late
The devastation unleashed on the southern Indian state of Kerala could have been avoided.
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