Why the UK’s butterflies are booming in 2025

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Biodiversity is in rapid decline, across the UK and globally. Butterflies are excellent for helping us understand these changes. Where butterfly communities are rich and diverse, so too is the ecosystem. But the opposite...

When public money is tight, how do governments put a price on culture?

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Its no secret that public finances are tight in the UK. This spells trouble for many sectors, not least culture. After all, this is an area that often relies on public funding with many projects facing an uncertain...

The beauty of coral reefs is key to their survival – so we came up with a way to measure it

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Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great lengths to protect and restore them? Of course, its partly because of their ecological...

Japan and South Korea can show governments how to compete with China and US

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Governments around the world are hustling. European policymakers, for example, are eager to boost the regions industrial relevance in a world where the US and China dominate cutting-edge technologies. They want to move...

In Reframing Blackness, Alayo Akinkugbe challenges museums to see blackness first

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In Reframing Blackness, writer and curator Alayo Akinkugbe explores the way that art history is taught, and the impact this has had on what we see in national museums in western cities. This teaching has often led to the...

Why some ‘biodegradable’ wet wipes can be terrible for the environment

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Have you felt disgust when taking a walk along the riverside or plunging into the sea to escape the summer heat, only to spy a used wet wipe floating along the surface? Or shock at finding out that animals have died...

Why employees hesitate to disclose mental health concerns – and what employers can do about it

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About one in four employees has a diagnosable mental health condition, and up to 65 per cent say mental health concerns interfere with their ability to work. The economic toll is staggering. In the United States alone,...