The latest news from NERC – Planet Earth – can be found here. It’s packed full of stories and features about research in the natural and environmental sciences. You can subscribe to receive Planet Earth as a regular email newsletter that contains all the content from the magazine, as well as stories, videos and podcasts from the…
Luc Hoffmann died on July 21st, age 93. He was heir to the Hoffmann-LaRoche pharmaceutical fortune, but used his money for conservation, being heavily involved with funding WWF from its inception in 1961. His approach to conservation, “with man, not against him” influenced WWF and others, but as this appreciation from the Economist shows, “Few…
NAEE trustee, Gabrielle Back, has been honoured as International Green World Ambassador. This recognition comes as a result of the environmental success of her CREATIVE RECYCLING & CLIMATE CHANGE SURVEYANCE Project which won a 2015 Green Apple Environment Award. As a result of that success, her winning paper is to be published in The Green Book, an annual work of…