Wildlife

Treated like dirt: Urban soil is often overlooked as a resource

When you think about soil, you probably think of rolling fields of countryside. But what about urban soil? With city dwellers expected to account for 68% of the world’s population by 2050, this oft-forgotten resource is increasingly important.

Here’s how we plant 2 billion more trees in the UK

Here, 30-50 hours after it stopped being topical, are some maps of the USA’s fast-spreading feral hog infestation

How Chernobyl became a wildlife refuge

Urban greenery can cool warming cities, and make us happy, too

Wild boar are moving back to Genoa, and not everyone is pleased

In northern Manitoba, black bears, grizzly bears and polar bears are now living together

London’s urban ‘forests’ can store almost as much carbon as tropical rainforests

Five species that have quietly adapted to urban living in London

How a dam in Volgograd has almost killed off the caviar fish

Where did London’s parakeets come from?

I explored the Antarctic deep seas for Blue Planet II – and it was like going back 350m years