World Soil Day (WSD), 5 December is the United Nations Observance that celebrates healthy soils for a food-secure future. 

A new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology demonstrates how the diversity and abundance of arthropods decrease when hedgerows and field margins covered by wild grass and flowers are removed.

More than half of the world’s total GDP is at least moderately dependent on nature. Yet arguably, there is no economy (or life) without nature. A quarter of animal and planet species are now threatened, and 14 out of 18 key ecosystem services – including fertile soils to grow food, flood and disease control and regulation of air and water pollution – are in decline.

New, groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and development led to improved crop varieties that resulted in global benefits to the environment and food system sustainability.

Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies.

Biodiversity is in rapid decline, across the UK and globally. Butterflies are excellent for helping us understand these changes.