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Sophie Kevany

Sophie Kevany is a freelance journalist 

July 2024

  • Charlotte Dujardin at the World Equestrian Games

    ‘Dressage is in trouble’: where is the line between horse abuse and training?

    Charlotte Dujardin’s Olympic exit and ban has turned the spotlight on training techniques in the sport
  • A man dives below the surface with two tuna

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Swim with the fishes: is tuna tourism just a bit of harmless holiday fun?

    Campaigners are concerned at how the tourist treat could affect the species, and how it could become an event like whale watching or shark diving
  • Mountain Otemanu in Bora Bora, French Polynesia. There are many colored artificial lights in the shore reflecting in the flat calm sea water.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds

    Light pollution acts as ‘midnight fridge’, drawing in young fish, then predators, according to tests in French Polynesia

June 2024

  • A stocky beige-coloured horse with an erect mane standing on a open grassy plain

    The age of extinction
    Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries

    Seven Przewalski’s horses, the only truly wild species of the animal in the world, flown to central Asian country from zoos in Europe

May 2024

  • Small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly

    The age of extinction
    Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust

  • The common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) spotted in West Yorkshire.

    The age of extinction
    Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds

April 2024

  • An Atlantic salmon on a petri dish.

    On our plate
    From petri dish to plate: meet the company hoping to bring lab-grown fish to the table

  • Brown, black and cream-coloured young cattle huddle together in a field

    US banks ‘sabotaging’ own net zero plans by livestock financing, report claims

March 2024

  • Composite picture of a photo of a man using a scalpel to pick at a huge crocodile-like skull, and a drawing of adolphin in brown water seizing prey

    The age of extinction
    Scientists find skull of enormous ancient dolphin in Amazon

  • A worker spreads out meat at a JBS plant.

    Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds

February 2024

  • A hand full of newly dug earthy potatoes

    The age of extinction
    Eating to save nature? Embrace potatoes, ditch meat and track your beans

  • Ed Treasure, from Wessex Archaeology, holding an ancient willow segment found in peatland at Alderman’s Barrow, Holnicote Estate, Somerset.

    The age of extinction
    Prehistoric peatland plants and bugs found in UK ‘time capsule’

January 2024

  • Divers in the deep ocean twilight zone

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Ocean fungi from twilight zone could be source of next penicillin-like drug

  • A southern elephant seal on South Georgia.

    The age of extinction
    Bird flu confirmed among mass sub-Antarctic seal deaths as virus continues global spread

December 2023

  • A dodo skeleton.

    The age of extinction
    Human-driven extinction of bird species twice as high as thought, study says

    About 12% of birds have died out as result of human activity in past 120,000 years, say scientists

October 2023

  • An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil

    Animals farmed
    Top grain traders ‘helped scupper’ ban on soya from deforested land

    Cargill and ADM led push to weaken new protections for threatened ecosystems in South America, report says

September 2023

  • Pig culling at a farm in Lombardy, northern Italy, last week.

    Animals farmed
    Italy culls tens of thousands of pigs to contain African swine fever

  • A partly translucent baby fish with a silvery blue eye and gill swims in water

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Breeding breakthrough paves way for controversial tuna farming on land

August 2023

  • A helicopter drops water on Maui’s wildfires last week

    The age of extinction
    Non-native grass species blamed for ferocity of Hawaii wildfires

    Failure to heed warnings over unchecked growth meant blaze was ‘a disaster waiting to happen’, say scientists and academics

June 2023

  • Murchison Falls rangers with their snare mountain.

    The age of extinction
    ‘A war on nature’: rangers build mountain out of wildlife traps found in Ugandan park

    Photographs showing a 12-tonne pile of tangled snares and metal traps reveal ongoing battle against poachers
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