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Black Mountains College in Wales aims to prepare students for life during a planetary emergency. The college is this year offering a radical new degree course designed to prepare students for a career in times of climate breakdown, and build a generation with the innovative skills and ideas required to tackle the crisis.

The number of insects splattered on vehicle number plates in Britain fell by 64% between 2004 and 2022, according to a survey. Each summer citizen scientists record the number of insect splats on their number plates on an app after a journey. The latest Bugs Matter report, produced by Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife, found another drop in 2022 compared with 2021, with the long-term decrease jumping by five percentage points.

Vegetated areas above the treeline in the Alps have increased by 77% since 1984, the study says. While retreating glaciers have symbolised the speed of global heating in the Alpine region, researchers described the increases in plant biomass as an “absolutely massive” change.

Les agriculteurs sont invités à consacrer 1 % de leurs terres à la nature et au piégeage du carbone d’une manière inattendue : en cultivant en ligne droite.... Depuis son lancement il y a un an, la campagne WildEast a recueilli les promesses de plus de 80 agriculteurs de la région de consacrer 20 % de leurs terres à la nature, ainsi que les engagements d’écoles, de cimetières, de conseils, de personnes possédant des jardins.

Around the world, activists are pushing to protect their rivers by giving them legal personhood. Is this just symbolism, or can it drive lasting environmental change?