Europe's abandoned farmlands could find new life through rewilding, a movement to restore ravaged landscapes to their wilderness before human intervention. A quarter of the European continent, 117 ...

For over 20 million years, the landscape of Europe has been a tree-rich mosaic of grasslands, scrubs and more or less open woodlands with an abundance of wildflowers. This is the conclusion of a new ...

Nitrate pollution is a growing global environmental challenge due to the extensive use of fertilizer. A study published in Science, led by the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland ...

BBC Verify examines the impact of drought and extreme heat on western European rivers, fields and mountains.

This figure depicts how nearly 25% of the European continent is primed for rewilding opportunities, which include passive rewilding (gradients of blue) that allows the natural recolonization of ...