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Sophie Yeo

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Sophie Yeo is editor of Inkcap Journal and the author of Nature’s Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back

August 2024

  • The Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland.

    double quotation markBog ugly, but totally magnificent: peatlands are finally getting the respect they deserve

    Sophie Yeo
    Scotland’s Flow Country is the first peatland to become a world heritage site – reassigning nature its leading role, says author Sophie Yeo

July 2024

  • Parasol mushrooms in southern Spain

    double quotation markThe ‘wood wide web’ theory charmed us all – but now it’s the subject of a bitter fight among scientists

    Sophie Yeo
    The debate about the degree to which forests and fungi communicate raises the painful question of confirmation bias, says author Sophie Yeo

May 2024

  • A line of people walk along the edge of a filed thickly planted with sunflowers. People can be seen among the flowers taking pictures.

    The age of extinction
    Nature’s ghosts: how reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven

    Agriculture is often seen as the enemy of biodiversity, but in an excerpt from her new book Sophie Yeo explains how techniques from the middle ages allow plants and animals to flourish