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In search of Buff Footmen and Old Ladies
A summer’s night with Sheffield’s moth-watchers
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Tinderbox: the fire risk growing on Sheffield’s borders
“It’s dry,” he says. “There is no Ringinglow Bog.”
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Bad soil, worse weather — but one farm on the edge of Sheffield is fighting the tide
“It was 2023 when we lost 30 per cent of our crops, which is just staggering if you ask me”
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Animals of all kinds love the Longshaw Estate — especially humans
As Springwatch moves in for the next few weeks, David Bocking examines the growing pressures on this landscape
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The battle brewing over Sheffield’s green belt
‘Yeah, I see myself as a NIMBY. But I think there is enough land that we don’t have to build in anybody’s back yard’
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Burning injustice: are west Sheffield's wood burners polluting east Sheffield's air?
Not all harms are visible, argues David Coleman
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Parrot Paradise: the boom in Sheffield’s parakeet population
“They’re from Mick Jagger’s aviary, did you know?”
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The Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust battles to protect nature. So why has a push to protect staff proven so divisive?
“Members of the executive team would say things like ‘I believe in unions, but just not one here’.”
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How do we get our “blue space” back?
The water’s lovely, but many of us can’t get there
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The hunt for the elusive Sheffield salmon
The Don has undergone a massive clean up effort — so why are salmon stocks still low?
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On Sheffield’s former steel sites, future nature thrives
‘What we’re seeing is evolution happening in front of us’
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