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Environment

  • Hannah Bourne-Taylor

    ​‘The hypocrisy is staggering’
    Will swift bricks fall prey to government fears of Reform?

    Campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor fears goal of requiring all new homes to include a hollow brick to help endangered cavity-nesting birds may be dropped
  • A firefighter standing amid smoke holding a hose.

    Climate crisis
    Two Britons to challenge UK’s ‘weak’ response to climate crisis in Strasbourg court

  • A free Yoga class on the artifical grass surface ioutside the new Davis Center.

    Design a better world
    New York unveils most dramatic changes to Central Park in years – in pictures

  • Headshot of Tony Blair

    Climate crisis
    How ‘out of touch’ Tony Blair became a serious threat to climate action

  • Hailstorm in Paris

    Weather tracker
    Deadly storms in India and huge hailstones in Paris

  • Webcam image of osprey sitting in its nest.

    Birds
    ‘You get attached to them’: nesting ospreys get villagers excited in Wales

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CO2 tracker

Spotlight

  • a group of young people stand on ice and play broomball outside

    How the climate crisis threatens Indigenous traditions in Canada: ‘It’s not the way it used to be’

  • a bear on one side of glass with a crowd of people, including many children, on the other

    A grizzly bear comeback in California? An old dream gets new legs

    • Lead image for Change by degrees on sustainable furniture, showing a woman repairing a wooden chair

      How to avoid ‘fast furniture’ and deck out your home with goods that will last

    • Buffel is a highly valued pasture species in Queensland, Australia

      Buffel kerfuffle: should the invasive grass be listed as a weed of national significance in Australia?

    • An ecologist stands in a river taking a water sample in a bucket.

      ‘Irreplaceable habitat’: planning bill raises fears for England’s chalk streams

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Opinion

  • Adam Morton

    Australia has backed a rapid shift to renewable energy – and given Labor a chance on climate. How will it act?

    Adam Morton
  • Voters queue at a polling booth in Brisbane

    Labor must heed the warnings wrapped up in its election win. Young voters are crying out for action

    Intifar Chowdhury
  • Tarkine2025 1pixke

    I went to an ancient rainforest with 90 artists and lived! Despite my endless cynicism I had a lovely time

  • Adam Morton

    A climate election? The Coalition wants to take Australia backwards, while Labor is standing still

    Adam Morton
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The age of extinction

  • A tractor with a rake attachment on a misty beach in front of furled parasols.

    Sand groomers v turtles: how wildlife is falling foul of the demand for Insta-perfect beaches

  • the face of a black and white owl with an open beak and yellow eyes

    Collapsing bird numbers in North America prompt fears of ecological crisis – research

    Study using citizen data finds three-quarters of nearly 500 species in decline, with steepest trend in areas where they once thrived
  • Lynx in Białowieża national park

    The missing lynx: how the rise of border walls has split up wildlife populations

    In an age of growing hostility to migrants, there are 10 times more barriers on borders than when the Berlin Wall fell. But as well as the human cost, animals are unintended victims
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Seascape

  • David Attenborough standing in front of white cliffs on the coast

    Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film

  • A close up image of an astronaut and helmet in outer space. 3D illustration.<br>W66XN6 A close up image of an astronaut and helmet in outer space. 3D illustration.

    Sea bass in space: why fish farms on the moon may be closer than you think

    • fish swimming around coral underwater

      Trump order to loosen fishing regulations poses major risks, experts warn

    • An image of the grooves created using 3D seismic reflection data

      Giant icebergs once drifted off the coast of Britain, scientists find

    • A woman's hands hold a paintbrush and a pot of ink over a half-finished painting of an octopusCaragh is creating an original artwork for AFYO. "Art For Your Oceans" (AFYO), a collaborative project between WWF and Artwise, aims to raise funds and awareness for ocean conservation through a selling exhibition of specially commissioned artworks, featuring 16 international artists, and utilizing OCEAN INK, a sustainable ink made from seaweed.

      ‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge

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Multimedia

  • An Iberian lynx released from a breeding centre in Astudillo, northern Spain

    Week in wildlife: a leopard cat, a vulture puppet and a hare playing hide and seek

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how the world is transitioning to 100% renewable energy
    8:05

    Why unlimited green energy is closer than people think – video

    Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how the world is transitioning to 100% renewable energy
  • Thousands were evacuated and several were taken to hospital
    0:57

    Motorists abandon cars as 'worst wildfire in decades' rages near Jerusalem – video

    Thousands were evacuated and several were taken to hospital
  • Uncle Larry Walsh is an Indigenous elder life story is being turned into a play that will be at at the Malthouse Theatre.

    Australia’s best photos of the month – April 2025

  • Two bear cubs who were rescued in Bursa, Turkey.

    Week in wildlife: wild ponies, a playful jaguar and penguin chicks taking their first swim

  • Two years into the worst coral bleaching event on record, more than 80% of the planet's reefs have been affected
    2:03

    Tracing the worst coral bleaching event in recorded history – video

  • A runner runs with a black pony in a forest

    Miniature horses race in New Zealand’s big wilderness – in pictures

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