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Environment

  • Author and naturalist Andrew Cleave sat on a group of rocks at Portland Bill, Dorset, UK on a blue-sky day.

    Why I'm obsessed with...
    Coastal wildflowers: they look so delicate but thrive in tough conditions

    From the rock sea-spurrey, which appears to grow out of solid rock, to the slender centaury that lives on a landslip, these plants exist where they do for good reason
  • A man stands in front of an old wall with plants growing from it

    The age of extinction
    Like the Ritz for wildlife: the joy of recreating England’s ancient hedges

  • A swallow standing on a post singing

    Birds
    April heralds return of migratory birds to UK – unless the weather turns cruel

  • A centuries-old oak tree in Enfield, north London

    Exclusive
    UK government report calls for taskforce to save England’s historic trees

  • A wooden dormouse nest box attached to a tree.

    Country diary
    Going house to house looking for a dormouse

  • A white lump of what looks like chicken in a black petri-dish

    Cell-cultivated meat
    Lab-grown chicken ‘nuggets’ hailed as ‘transformative step’ for cultured meat

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CO2 tracker

Spotlight

  • Elle Hunt taking advice from B’Leaf’s Claire Bright

    The houseplant murderer: can I become green fingered in eight easy steps?

  • A picture of a pond within a woodland

    Resurrected pools, remnants of last ice age, attract wildlife in Norfolk

    • Breakout Creek at the western end of Adelaide’s River Torrens in March 2025

      Parched waterways, dead fish and trees ready to give up: historic big dry grips South Australia

    • silhouette of person walking outside

      ‘Shock to the system’: farmers hit by Trump’s tariffs and cuts say they need another bailout

    • A smiling man stands at a table with a chopping board covered in ingredients, with a harbour behind him

      The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

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Opinion

  • Amanda Meade

    Nothing to see here, Press Council says after News Corp tabloids’ front-page undisclosed advertorial gassing up fossil fuel

    Amanda Meade
  • Martha Gill

    Why resurrect the dire wolf when existing animals are facing extinction?

    Martha Gill
  • Turbo Chook 25pixie

    Turbo chooks moved into our garden and had babies without telling us! What a dilemma

  • Alexander Hurst

    The big lesson for Europe? Trump backed down under pressure

    Alexander Hurst
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The age of extinction

  • A woman blows her nose next to branch of a tree laden with pollen

    How heat, thunder, smog and new species are making hay fever worse

  • IMG-5983 Here are six pics of the Bains des Pâquis, a man-made jetty, beach and swimming area in the centre of the Geneva on the lake, Switzerland.

    Streams of medicines: how Switzerland cleaned up its act – podcast

    In the second of a two part series, Phoebe Weston travels to Switzerland to find out how the country has transformed its rivers, from sewage-filled health hazards to pristine swimming spots. She tells Madeleine Finlay how a public health disaster in the 1960s spurred the government to act, and what the UK could learn from the Swiss about taking care of a precious national asset.
  • The River Derwent on a sunny day with grassy slopes and trees in full leaf either side of it

    Streams of medicines: what’s hiding in the UK’s waterways? – podcast

    In episode one of a two-part series, biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about the problem of chemical pollution in our waterways, and how it could be contributing to what the World Health Organization has described as ‘the silent pandemic’ – antimicrobial resistance.
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Seascape

  • Squid captured on film in the south Atlantic Ocean is a baby, at just 11.8in (30cm) in length
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    Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever – video

  • A translucent creature with red eyes and red tentacles.

    Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever

    • A man in a cap and sunglasses stands on a beach

      ‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future

    • A man cutting a fin off a small shark with a knife

      US ports to use Covid-like tests to identify illegally trafficked seafood species

    • A white wandering albatross chick sits on a nest

      ‘They started nibbling at its head’: the bold plan to rid an island of albatross-eating mice

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Multimedia

  • 'I'm not a scientist': Dutton responds to climate change question in ABC leaders' debate – video

  • Prepare to dive … research engineer Aurore Molé in a survival suit.

    Underwater Argonauts! The deep-sea scientists logging Med pollution – in pictures

    Juliette Pavy’s photographs of eco expeditions bring an element of lyrical storytelling to the global impact of invisible pollutants, from the Mediterranean to the Arctic
  • Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - formerly the Soviet Union's primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the surrounding community is only beginning to comprehend radiation's lasting deadly effects. Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine and the long shadow of a nuclear conflict across the region, Dmitry debates Kazakhstan's nuclear future with its next generation
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    Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

    Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - formerly the Soviet Union's primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the surrounding community is only beginning to comprehend radiation's lasting deadly effects. Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine and the long shadow of a nuclear conflict across the region, Dmitry debates Kazakhstan's nuclear future with its next generation
  • At Amarah’s Al-Sadr hospital, medical staff, patients and their families struggle as busy wards overheat and tempers fray.

    Faintings, blackouts and violence: Iraq’s scorching emergency – in pictures

  • Maria Matthes, a lifelong conservationist, says loss of habitat and climate change are threatening koalas in eastern New South Wales
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    Endangered koalas and the ecologist documenting their extinction – video

  • Sri Lankan leopard in the bush

    Week in wildlife: ospreys reunited, a monkey thief and a London fox cub

  • The race to save Mary river turtle nests from rising flood waters in rural Queensland
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    Endangered bum-breathing turtles and the town working to save them – video

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