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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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How to restore a rain forest … or when you can’t see the trees for the forest
So you think it’s easy? Just stick in a few seeds and seedlings and wait a couple of decades. Well, it ain’t. We have been creating a...
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Richard Pooley
7 min read
Just say Yes.
Three years ago my wife’s step-father needed to have 24-hour care in the Cotswolds cottage where he and my mother-in-law lived. However...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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What goes up must come down: why global rainfall is increasing
Kenya, Brazil, Afghanistan, even the United Arab Emirates, are just four countries to have suffered serious flooding over the last few...
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Eric Boa
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Veronica, Vice-President: The Best Interviewee
Every morning, I wake to the probing questions of current affairs journalists on BBC Radio 4. The responses from those in the limelight...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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When the Saints come marching in….or why Napoleon should have become a botanist
Last November a colleague called to ask if I would take two visitors for a tour round my ecological restoration project in Kenya. Two...
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