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Countryside is key: the top five ways the countryside can tackle climate change

Our top five ways the countryside actively tackles the climate emergency.

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The bog blog: everything you never knew you needed to know about peat

Is peat the same as soil or mud? And how can it help climate change?

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A group of people with a painted and adorned bicycle stand in front of solar panels and wind turbines

10 reasons why we love community energy – for people and planet

Our top ten reasons why community energy rocks – for people and the planet.

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Mackenzie Crook on his love of the landscape

Brilliant butterflies

Get your eyes peeled for butterflies fluttering by this summer…

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A small blue-lilac butterfly on a yellow flower

Why this patch of Green Belt means so much to my family

Writer and walking enthusiast Lucy Furlong on how a patch of Green Belt land in Kingston-upon-Thames has become part of her family’s life

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Written in the stars

CPRE has long worked for dark skies over our countryside, not least to allow for the breathtaking experience of stargazing. Here, professional star-spotter Gary Fildes shares his journey to becoming a professional astronomer – and what the dark skies over Northumberland mean to him.

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A woman stands outside Kielder Observatory looking over Kielder Water

The South Downs after dark

Nature writer and artist Tiffany Francis-Baker is the author of 2019’s Dark Skies; A Journey into the Wild Night. Here, she ventures out on a nocturnal expedition of the South Downs – and finds an extraordinary sense of tranquillity

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