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Jun 23, 2026
Clean economy brings jobs and growth, says Miliband as £100bn invested in green energy
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Jun 23, 2026
Paraquat will continue to be used in Australia despite 70 countries banning weedkiller over Parkinson’s disease fears
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Jun 23, 2026
‘Compound shock effect’: why the Middle East crisis and El Niño could spell disaster in south-east Asia
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Jun 23, 2026
A thousand years old and 20 storeys high: tracking down Taiwan’s tallest trees
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Jun 22, 2026
Whyalla wipeout fears: cuttlefish usually gather in their thousands, but few have appeared since a massive algal bloom
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Jun 22, 2026
Trapped by floods and fearing death in the heat: the Australians taking legal action over the climate crisis
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Jun 22, 2026
‘Emotional and horrific’: volunteers ‘live’ as Somerset animals to study wildlife risks
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Jun 22, 2026
Starmer has a strong green record – but a rightwing backlash weakened his plans
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Jun 22, 2026
Country diary: Somewhere in the vast forest is a miniature one | Amanda Thomson
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Jun 21, 2026
El Niño is back with a vengeance – and fears of ‘Godzilla’ strength may be the least of our worries
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Jun 21, 2026
‘A genuine wildlife emergency’: everything you need to know about the arrival of H5 bird flu in Australia
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Jun 21, 2026
How Europe’s EV makers shrank their product to challenge the bloated SUVs
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Jun 20, 2026
A spate of shark bites has Australian ocean lovers on edge. People want to know why they’re rising
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Jun 20, 2026
Skeleton of the world’s rarest marine mammal preserved by digital imaging
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Jun 20, 2026
From coal to cabernet: the wine seller using a flooded mine to cut heating bills
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Jun 20, 2026
‘It’s Russian roulette’: alarm as Europe backs critical minerals mines in water-stressed regions
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Jun 20, 2026
Country diary: For the beloved Ash Dome, death is not the end | Anita Roy
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Jun 20, 2026
Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage
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Jun 19, 2026
Electric is the new normal as growing secondhand market helps Australian car buyers shift gear
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Jun 19, 2026
Kidney cancer rates near Pfas factory in Lancashire a ‘major source of concern’
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Jun 19, 2026
New research links prenatal exposure to Pfas to later development of PMOS
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Jun 19, 2026
Fifa urged to drop Saudi oil giant Aramco as activists target World Cup
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Jun 19, 2026
My trip to meet the scientists trying to refreeze the Arctic
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Jun 19, 2026
Country diary: These oysters are destined – we hope – for great things | Claire Stares
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Jun 18, 2026
Heathrow third runway likely to affect health of millions nearby, official report warns
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Jun 18, 2026
‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds
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Jun 18, 2026
‘The sea took everything away’: how Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is disappearing beneath the waves
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Jun 18, 2026
Cambridge experts recreate 336-year-old garden to commemorate ‘father of natural history’
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Jun 18, 2026
A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
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Jun 18, 2026
Country diary: Watching the ruffs strut like ludicrous Walter Raleighs | Michael J Warren
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Jun 17, 2026
‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies
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Jun 17, 2026
Okra up north: how a forgotten heirloom travelled the African diaspora to Toronto
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Jun 17, 2026
Rising temperatures may increase flood risk through river ‘whiplash’, study finds
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Jun 17, 2026
US public still favours action on climate change despite Trump’s fossil fuel drive
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Jun 17, 2026
Campaigner threatened with prosecution by Environment Agency after waterway cleanup
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Jun 17, 2026
‘I don’t like being stuck in an office’: the young people helping plant a ring of trees around London
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Jun 17, 2026
As an ocean swimmer, I try not to think of sharks, but we all know that this is their territory | Eleanor Limprecht
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Jun 16, 2026
Half of all fatal shark attacks happen in Australia. How can you protect yourself – and do electronic deterrents work?
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Jun 16, 2026
‘At first, the idea does sound crazy’: meet the scientists trying to refreeze the Arctic
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Jun 16, 2026
BoM forecasts strong El Niño and warns climate change could amplify effects on Australia
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Jun 16, 2026
AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists
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Jun 16, 2026
The bat that weighs the same as a teaspoon of salt – and the biologist who rediscovered it
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Jun 16, 2026
Half of world’s children exposed to at least three climate hazards, Unicef says
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Jun 15, 2026
Backlash against ‘short-termist’ UK plans to weaken EV sales targets
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Jun 15, 2026
State bans on Pfas reduce ‘forever chemicals’ in clothing and textiles, US report finds
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Jun 15, 2026
Weather tracker: Saharan heat to send temperatures soaring across Europe
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Jun 15, 2026
‘The Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance
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Jun 15, 2026
Shark expert says Tony Abbott ‘doesn’t understand the science’ after former PM calls for cull
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Jun 14, 2026
‘People start connecting the dots’: why an investment fund is rewilding a North Yorkshire estate
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Jun 13, 2026
Denial is back in vogue. As Australia leads climate talks, it’s beyond time we took the issue seriously
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Jun 13, 2026
‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the species survive?
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Jun 13, 2026
Tropical heron spotted in UK for first time as more exotic birds arrive to thrill birdwatchers
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Jun 13, 2026
‘Fast-track’ regulation could expose Britons to harmful chemicals, say campaigners
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Jun 13, 2026
Country diary: It’s a painted lady summer, the stuff of lepidopterists’ legend | Phil Gates
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Jun 13, 2026
Trees may store less planet-heating carbon than hoped, study suggests
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Jun 13, 2026
Australia can switch from fossil fuel exports to renewables, says next Cop president
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Jun 12, 2026
A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea
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Jun 12, 2026
Goblin shark with face ‘not even a mother would love’ seen alive in natural habitat for first time
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Jun 12, 2026
The underwater wonders I saw on my once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Galápagos
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Jun 12, 2026
Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests
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Jun 12, 2026
Country diary: The grisly beauty of an otter postmortem | Gwyneth Lewis
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Jun 11, 2026
Bananas could vanish from US school meals. Here’s why
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Jun 11, 2026
Commercial forests and biodiversity claims | Letters
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Jun 11, 2026
El Niño forms in Pacific as experts say it will likely turbocharge extreme weather
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Jun 11, 2026
Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as climate crisis worsens
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Jun 11, 2026
Country diary: A tiny orchid with mighty powers of deception | Oliver Southall
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Jun 10, 2026
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown
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Jun 10, 2026
Toby Carvery to pay for orchard planting after causing outrage by felling 500-year-old oak
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Jun 10, 2026
When is rare good news on climate science actually bad? When News Corp misrepresents it | Temperature Check
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Jun 10, 2026
Deepest and most extensive whale graveyard discovered in Indian Ocean
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Jun 10, 2026
Pollinators in peril: scientists reveal the hidden human health costs of the world’s disappearing bees
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Jun 10, 2026
More than half of clean energy schemes needed for Labour’s 2030 target offered grid connection
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Jun 10, 2026
Households could save £200 on energy bills in plan to break link between gas and electricity prices, says thinktank
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Jun 10, 2026
Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says
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Jun 10, 2026
Bycatch has ‘shocking’ toll on British marine life, first-ever analysis reveals
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Jun 09, 2026
‘Woefully unprepared’: extreme heat will double US hospitalizations by 2040, study finds
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Jun 09, 2026
The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?
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Jun 09, 2026
‘Electrify daily life’, urges Cop31 host
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Jun 09, 2026
World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds
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Jun 09, 2026
Christian leaders alarmed by climate crisis raise questions over GB News owner’s £28m church donations
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Jun 08, 2026
‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns
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Jun 08, 2026
Households outshine business in Australia’s rooftop solar revolution, report finds
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Jun 08, 2026
Weather tracker: Monsoon season brings vital rainfall to parts of Asia
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Jun 08, 2026
Giving guitarfish a chance: one man’s mission to persuade fishers to farm giant snails instead
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Jun 08, 2026
Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds
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Jun 08, 2026
Airline industry chiefs say 2050 net zero goal now unlikely
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Jun 07, 2026
The fight to save Australia’s ‘incredibly captivating’ endangered spiny crayfish
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Jun 07, 2026
Fisher with a mission: first woman to chair Grayling Society wants to protect ‘lady of the stream’
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Jun 06, 2026
How the ‘Picasso of ponds’ went from shaping golf courses to making freshwater homes for wildlife
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Jun 05, 2026
Scientists warn Trump plan to axe US ocean monitoring system will leave world ‘flying blind’
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Jun 05, 2026
Ingredients in place for shift to plant-based diets – so why does meat still dominate?
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Jun 05, 2026
Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds
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Jun 05, 2026
How the insatiable thirst of datacenters is leaving communities across the US high and dry
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Jun 05, 2026
Scramble for biofuel as oil prices rise ‘could push world closer to food crisis’
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Jun 05, 2026
‘Unpredictable and extreme’: Asia braces for El Niño
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Jun 04, 2026
California and New York weaken climate rules as red states ramp up green energy
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Jun 04, 2026
England’s poorest areas face deepest cuts to green space under planning law changes, report finds
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Jun 04, 2026
‘To them a power line is a line of trees’: Costa Rica moves to protect howler monkeys from electrocution
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Jun 04, 2026
Farmers: tell us how you’re coping with rising costs and extreme weather
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Jun 04, 2026
‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?
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Jun 04, 2026
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
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Jun 03, 2026
Specieswatch: Scientists trace haunting sea thrums to humpback whales
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Jun 02, 2026
Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system
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Jun 02, 2026
Can you not? Plastic and metal ‘franken-can’ named Australia’s worst packaging at Unpackit awards
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Jun 02, 2026
There are thousands of dirty old drill sites in Colorado. The state gave oil firms a $1bn pass
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Jun 02, 2026
New ways to remove CO2 from atmosphere must grow much faster, report says
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Jun 02, 2026
It has the highest levels of toxic Pfas in drinking water in Scotland. But how did this remote island become awash with forever chemicals?
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Jun 02, 2026
Prepare for imminent return of El Niño, UN warns
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Jun 01, 2026
UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
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Jun 01, 2026
Big gains for little terns: how Lindisfarne reserve is helping a rare bird survive tourism
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May 31, 2026
Local government could also do more to help with the cost of living | Letter
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May 31, 2026
EU bottle cap regulation is no laughing matter | Brief letters
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May 31, 2026
Gas usage has peaked and is now in structural decline across Australia, report says
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May 31, 2026
The household battery revolution that could change energy bills … and the world
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May 30, 2026
‘Nature’s soap opera’: how a wildlife artist’s nestboxes became a YouTube hit
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May 29, 2026
Solar energy helps US farms stay afloat – but Republicans’ bill could change that
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May 29, 2026
Second wave of South Australia’s toxic algal bloom could be imminent, scientist warns
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May 29, 2026
Conservationists alarmed by drastic cuts to key UK fund for global nature protection
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May 29, 2026
In our 250th edition, we ask just how well the fight against climate change is really going
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May 29, 2026
Air pollution slows lung growth during childhood, UK study shows
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May 28, 2026
Global heating is making hajj ever more dangerous, report finds
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May 28, 2026
Should I get air conditioning in the UK – and can it be green?
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May 28, 2026
Blair’s fossil fuel ideas ‘bizarre’ in face of energy and climate crises, experts say
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May 28, 2026
Ministers in talks over shelving carbon tax on fertiliser to curb UK food inflation
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May 28, 2026
‘Saaz is our gold’: the Czech scientists breeding hops that can survive a hotter Europe
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May 28, 2026
Britain ‘sleepwalking into a food crisis’ without urgent action, experts say
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May 28, 2026
Cigarette butts for free food? How one group is asking people to rethink litter
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May 28, 2026
What is killing Sumatra’s elephants? The battle to save one of our rarest animals
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May 28, 2026
Country diary: Mayday, mayday … the heatwave is killing the swallow chicks | Kate Blincoe
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May 28, 2026
World almost certain to endure record hot year by 2030, UN warns
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May 27, 2026
The climate is changing, and so too must Britain | Letters
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May 27, 2026
Extreme heat in Europe ‘a brutal reminder’ of climate crisis, UN chief says
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May 27, 2026
‘Mind-bogglingly crazy’: climate experts alarmed by deadly spring heatwaves searing Europe
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May 27, 2026
Community shocked after Aboriginal rock shelter bulldozed for NSW power lines
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May 27, 2026
Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress
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May 27, 2026
‘It’s getting hotter and it’s not stopping’: dealing with the heat in five of Europe’s capitals
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May 27, 2026
‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’
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May 26, 2026
Renters could save $20bn on bills in a decade from rooftop solar and appliance upgrades – if landlords act
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May 26, 2026
Why Trump administration’s plan to attempt to destroy Pfas is ‘nonsensical’
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May 26, 2026
Huge rise in factory-style dairy farming of ‘battery cows’ in UK as costs rise
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May 26, 2026
The ‘silent killer’: what you need to know about heatwaves
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May 26, 2026
Indians protest over ‘forever chemicals’ after relocation of scandal-hit Italian factory
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May 25, 2026
UK needs to urgently install air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say
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May 24, 2026
River Wye granted rights in UK first that could help in fight against pollution
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May 23, 2026
Endangered sawfish at risk from plan to double water extraction from WA’s Fitzroy River, advocates say
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May 23, 2026
‘There is no great master plan’: anxiety as UK homes, roads and railways sink into the sea
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May 22, 2026
Hyperlocal, seasonal and eco-friendly: British flower farms are coming up roses
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May 22, 2026
UN’s climate crisis vote shows political momentum is growing, say experts
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May 22, 2026
Number of air conditioned UK homes doubles to more than 4m in three years
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May 22, 2026
Slow-moving bands of heavy rain trigger flooding and landslides in parts of China
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May 22, 2026
Big oil’s war profits may have a silver lining after all
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May 21, 2026
Risk of snakebites increasing as reptiles adapt to changing world, says study
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May 21, 2026
Children should be at the forefront of our response to the climate crisis | Letter
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May 21, 2026
‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground
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May 21, 2026
Tentacles, pointy teeth and the T-rex of the sea: the Natural History Museum on beasts that once ruled the oceans
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May 21, 2026
England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn
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May 21, 2026
UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution
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May 20, 2026
More than 40 arrests made after UK activists target ‘bee-killing’ pesticides
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May 20, 2026
Plastic food and drink packaging ‘world’s most common coastal litter’
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May 20, 2026
Blinded and broken, Sunny the owl becomes another casualty of Russia’s war
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May 20, 2026
The English community that brought its river back from the brink: ‘If we can get it right here, we can do it everywhere’
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May 20, 2026
‘Floral buzzing’ to collect pollen as exhausting for bees as flight take-off, study shows
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May 20, 2026
Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says
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May 20, 2026
Country diary: The mayhem and mystery of inland gulls | Derek Niemann
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May 19, 2026
Twenty-two years and 15,000km later: fluke discovery sets new record for humpback whale journey
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May 19, 2026
UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns
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May 19, 2026
High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found off coast of southern England
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May 18, 2026
For sale: one cute baby gibbon – mother probably killed by poachers
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May 17, 2026
Can electric trucks win over Australia’s fossil fuel die hards? Or is diesel here for the long haul?
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May 17, 2026
‘Disastrous’ plan to allow fracking on South Australia’s Limestone Coast is a broken promise, locals say
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May 17, 2026
Experts sound alarm as North America’s bees start swarm season unusually early
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May 16, 2026
Timmy the whale confirmed dead by Danish authorities
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May 16, 2026
Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO
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May 15, 2026
Ban private jets and cut speed limits to avert UK fuel crisis, say campaigners
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May 15, 2026
What the fate of Timmy the whale says about conservation
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May 15, 2026
Wood burning is reintroducing lead pollution into the air, US scientists find
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May 15, 2026
‘Touch the earth lightly’: the Australian home that floats above the landscape
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May 15, 2026
Australia’s housing affordability expected to worsen and homelessness soar under fossil-fuelled future
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May 14, 2026
River Thames in London gets first official bathing spot on Friday
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May 14, 2026
Energy-hungry datacentres and the environmental cost of e-clutter | Letters
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May 14, 2026
Salmon farm faces new cruelty claims as Trump seeks to supersize fish farming
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May 14, 2026
How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins
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May 14, 2026
Farage’s Clacton-on-Sea constituency worst ‘tree desert’ in England, research shows
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May 13, 2026
Roots of resilience: the experts working to bolster apples against the climate crisis
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May 13, 2026
New revelations show WA is putting Australia’s climate targets at risk. Will Anthony Albanese do anything about it? | Clear Air
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May 13, 2026
‘You have to be where the pollution is’: the inventor hoping to fix your washing machine to stop microplastics
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May 12, 2026
Labour must fulfil promise to introduce clean air act, charities urge
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May 12, 2026
The global sand crisis: it’s being used up faster than it can be replaced
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May 12, 2026
‘Six lanes of tarmac and vehicles doing 70mph’: can ‘green bridges’ help animals cross the UK’s motorways in safety?
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May 12, 2026
Datacentres should be forced to invest in wind and solar energy, agree all states except Queensland
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May 12, 2026
Country diary: No Mow May is back on track – and the results are wonderful | Jennifer Jones
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May 11, 2026
Supermarket foods claiming to be ‘natural’ or ‘sustainable’ mostly just using marketing terms, researchers find
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May 11, 2026
Sharp drop in ‘forever chemicals’ in seabird eggs hailed as win for regulation
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May 11, 2026
Norway puts UN project funding on hold raising fears for plastics treaty talks
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May 10, 2026
Fish farms and pollution in Scotland | Letter
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May 10, 2026
‘A long road ahead’: could community car-sharing help UK hit climate targets?
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May 09, 2026
Oil-based products are everywhere, from fertiliser to fashion. What are the alternatives?
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May 09, 2026
The global energy shock is driving people to EVs, solar and batteries. What renewables subsidies are available in Australia?
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May 08, 2026
Second-driest April on record for NSW as likely El Niño brings threat of dry year ahead
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May 08, 2026
‘Everything went black. Then fire poured down’: one man’s terror onboard a ship hit in the Iran war
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May 08, 2026
Airline emissions in Europe top pre-Covid levels despite pledge to decarbonise
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May 08, 2026
Our cities are choked by cars – here’s how experts would fix them
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May 08, 2026
‘The worst time for wheat’: US farmers face losses to extreme heat and drought
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May 08, 2026
Inequality causing 100,000 extra deaths a year from heat and cold in Europe
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May 08, 2026
‘A share in the delight’: the people investing in the UK’s first community-owned solar battery
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May 08, 2026
Weather tracker: Colorado experiences rare spring snowstorm
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May 08, 2026
How one man’s mission to clear dumped boats inspired Guardian readers
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May 08, 2026
Country diary: A lesson in camouflage from a cucumber spider | Claire Stares
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May 07, 2026
Can a sprawling city make public transit work? Sydney may be on the right track
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May 07, 2026
How to drive progress on the green transition | Letters
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May 07, 2026
Shark or sea monster? The Canadian marine mystery that still intrigues experts 90 years on
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May 07, 2026
‘At a crossroads’: will piling-up crises force Europe to put brakes on SUV culture?
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May 06, 2026
Vienna’s public transport is the envy of the world – so why can’t it ditch cars?
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May 06, 2026
How car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transit
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May 06, 2026
From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters
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May 04, 2026
Reform government could cause Truss-style chaos, says renewables industry
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May 04, 2026
‘Wake-up call’: methane emissions from Australian coalmines more than double official estimates, report finds
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May 04, 2026
‘Living library’: inside the marine biobanks racing to protect ocean species from extinction
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May 03, 2026
How to conserve your dragon – and avoid losing Australia’s most imperilled reptile for a second time
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May 03, 2026
More farming co-operatives could ‘unleash growth’ in UK, finds report
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May 03, 2026
From neat lawns to wild havens: how No Mow May is transforming England’s gardens
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May 02, 2026
‘We don’t hear the frogs, we don’t see the birds’: government repeatedly delayed water to NSW wetlands, documents reveal
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May 02, 2026
Two buses, three hours and 13 miles: how Americans in ‘transit deserts’ get groceries without cars
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May 01, 2026
Doug Allan obituary
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May 01, 2026
Could Santa Marta climate talks mark ground zero in push to ditch fossil fuels?
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May 01, 2026
The climate crisis is making our hay fever worse – and affecting our enjoyment of nature
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May 01, 2026
How LNG interests are seeking to disrupt global talks on decarbonising shipping
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May 01, 2026
Hope is contagious and science is king: 10 big lessons on ending the fossil fuel era
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May 01, 2026
Large-scale sporting events cause unexpected air pollution, study shows
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Apr 30, 2026
A ban on trophy hunting would harm, not help, conservation | Letter
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Apr 30, 2026
Australians will pay more if Albanese fast-tracks fossil fuel projects, former oil and gas leaders warn
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Apr 30, 2026
Germany was largest exporter of plastic waste in 2025, sending 810,000 tonnes overseas, analysis finds
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Apr 30, 2026
‘My own contribution’: the Ottawa immigrants learning to retrofit homes and fight the climate crisis
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Apr 30, 2026
‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseout
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Apr 30, 2026
Protecting lions and people: the biologist dedicated to tackling human-wildlife conflict
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Apr 30, 2026
Sounds of hope in Kent as more nightingales join dawn chorus
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Apr 30, 2026
Could the warming North Sea attract great white sharks?
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Apr 30, 2026
Crack and crime to confident and qualified: is the future about to change for Rhyl’s youth?
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Apr 29, 2026
Labor will back fossil fuels in the budget but the gas tax campaign isn’t dead yet
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Apr 29, 2026
Poached: could a video of tree-climbing egg thieves help save Australia’s vulnerable honeyeaters?
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Apr 29, 2026
Hot weather and hungry datacentres lift Australia’s energy demand to record highs but batteries quell prices
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Apr 29, 2026
‘Suicidal’ model of capitalism leading to war and fascism, climate summit told
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Apr 29, 2026
Older than the dinosaurs: scientists finally unlock secret of the mayfly’s dance
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Apr 29, 2026
Country diary: As spring bursts into life, all eyes on the Cairngorms barbecue ban | Amanda Thomson
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Apr 29, 2026
Babies exposed to air pollution during pregnancy take longer to learn to speak, research finds
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Apr 29, 2026
Urban areas host 80% of England’s homes at high risk of flooding, study finds
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Apr 29, 2026
Nordic heatwave part of record year that saw temperatures scorch most of Europe, report finds
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Apr 28, 2026
Stranded whale Timmy swims on to barge in German rescue attempt
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Apr 28, 2026
Middle East crisis could cost world $1tn while oil firms make ‘obscene’ profit, analysis finds
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Apr 27, 2026
Industrial chicken producer hits out over Wye and Usk river pollution claim
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Apr 27, 2026
Fate of critical ocean currents is in our hands | Letters
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Apr 26, 2026
Renewable energy will boost national security and protect UK from sabotage, minister says
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Apr 26, 2026
Why biomethane is not the solution to Britain’s gas supply issues | Letter
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Apr 26, 2026
Australia is the world’s fourth-largest black truffle producer. Now scientists may have unearthed why
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Apr 25, 2026
Cop negotiations chief on how Iran war oil shock paves road to climate talks in Turkey
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Apr 25, 2026
Criminalisation of climate protesters in UK is counterproductive, research finds
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Apr 25, 2026
‘Cries of delight’ as Sumatran orangutan filmed using canopy bridge to cross road for first time
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Apr 25, 2026
New global panel aims to accelerate move away from fossil fuels
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Apr 24, 2026
‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says
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Apr 24, 2026
How frustration at Cop stalemates inspires first global talks on phasing out fossil fuels
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Apr 24, 2026
What is a ‘super El Niño’ and what might it mean for the global climate?
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Apr 24, 2026
Largest-ever ban on toxic chemicals in EU hit by ‘extremely frustrating’ delays
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Apr 23, 2026
‘A history of the Earth’: Twelve Apostles revealed to be as old as 14m years
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Apr 23, 2026
The no-go zone paradox: Chornobyl’s wildlife thrives amid pro-nuclear shift
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Apr 23, 2026
Bonobos enjoy pretend tea parties and chimps think rationally: why apes are more like us than we ever thought
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Apr 23, 2026
Use of toxic Pfas in consumer goods must be urgently restricted, MPs say
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Apr 23, 2026
One ship, three deaths: the shocking truth behind working conditions on a Chinese fishing vessel
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Apr 22, 2026
Why chicken farms’ reliance on cheap imported soya bean is risky business | Letter
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Apr 22, 2026
There is no justification for the expansion of North Sea gas
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Apr 22, 2026
Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds
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Apr 22, 2026
EU plans to cut electricity taxes to shield households from Iran war energy crisis
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Apr 22, 2026
Stern warning: one man’s mission to clear the rotting boats poisoning Cornwall’s creeks
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Apr 22, 2026
Calls for change to rules after stretch of Thames fails to gain bathing water status
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Apr 22, 2026
Channel Seven’s Spotlight digging for dirt on clean energy ignores fundamental facts and basic journalistic standards | Temperature Check
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Apr 22, 2026
Pollen season in UK and mainland Europe extended by climate breakdown
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Apr 21, 2026
Britain should look to biomethane to expand gas supply | Letter
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Apr 21, 2026
Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds
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Apr 21, 2026
‘They come right past the house’: learning to live with rhinos as numbers soar in Nepal
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Apr 21, 2026
Cattle breed whose ancestors lived with Celts added to priority at-risk list
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Apr 21, 2026
Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report
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Apr 20, 2026
Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025
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Apr 20, 2026
UK shifts older wind and solar farms to fixed-price deals to reduce price shocks
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Apr 20, 2026
One Japanese town sorts waste into 40 different categories. How does Australia’s recycling compare?
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Apr 20, 2026
WaterNSW criticised for ‘appalling’ decision after hundreds of turtles left to die in wetlands
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Apr 20, 2026
Democrats urged to link clean energy to affordability as Iran war hikes up prices
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Apr 20, 2026
Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices
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Apr 20, 2026
Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds
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Apr 20, 2026
Fuel eating microbes, chemicals and fire: the race to discover new ways to contain Arctic oil spills
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Apr 20, 2026
From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law
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Apr 20, 2026
Woman who won legal case over greenhouse emissions awarded top environmental prize
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Apr 18, 2026
Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?
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Apr 18, 2026
A prickle of hedgehogs and an armada of newts: wildlife settles in at London’s new Queen Elizabeth garden
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Apr 18, 2026
Stranded and dying, the German whale is a parable of our troubled relationship with these sea giants
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Apr 18, 2026
Country diary: Return of the Manx shearwaters – this island is their home | Tim Earl
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Apr 17, 2026
‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands
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Apr 17, 2026
Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles
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Apr 17, 2026
Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock
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Apr 17, 2026
More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project
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Apr 17, 2026
Air pollution making people in UK get long-term illnesses earlier, study finds
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Apr 17, 2026
Country diary: A hardworking meadow that is surely worth saving | Mary Montague
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Apr 16, 2026
Network Rail must restore swift nesting sites | Letter
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Apr 16, 2026
Ammonia pollution hotspots found in areas of UK with most pig and poultry factory farms
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Apr 16, 2026
Country diary: A dead Portuguese man-of-war is still a dangerous one | Country Diary
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Apr 15, 2026
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
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Apr 15, 2026
For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Letters
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Apr 15, 2026
Over-the-counter pet flea treatments could be banned under new UK rules
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Apr 15, 2026
Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds
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Apr 15, 2026
More than half of Britain’s butterfly species in decline, monitoring scheme shows
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Apr 15, 2026
Country diary: A close-up view of my garden lawn – where is all the grass? | Derek Niemann
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Apr 15, 2026
Tuvalu, tiny Pacific nation at the forefront of climate crisis, to host world leaders before Cop31 summit
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Apr 14, 2026
Run the dishwasher, plug in the car: how Great Britain plans to use record wind and solar power
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Apr 14, 2026
Politicians and media can’t imagine a fossil-fuel free world - and it’s holding Australians back from huge EV savings | Adam Morton
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Apr 14, 2026
America’s hiking culture is built on ego
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Apr 14, 2026
‘Suddenly, boom, it’s completely warm’: summers are getting longer – especially in Sydney, study finds
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Apr 14, 2026
Surrounded by windfarms but out of work: the reality of the green jobs boom on England’s east coast
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Apr 14, 2026
Giant echidnas weighing 15kg roamed Victoria – and the evidence was hiding in plain sight
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Apr 14, 2026
NSW promises more fast chargers and electric trucks in revamped EV policy
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Apr 14, 2026
‘Without them there is no life’: the race understand the mysterious world of fungi
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Apr 13, 2026
UK households to be urged to use more power this summer as renewables soar
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Apr 13, 2026
Don’t mention the climate: Trump creates ‘beyond absurd’ situation at global finance talks
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Apr 13, 2026
Are we heading for ‘super El Nino’ – and what could we expect?
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Apr 13, 2026
Troubled Lake Erie is being transformed into a vast water research facility
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Apr 13, 2026
Weather tracker: Super Typhoon Sinlaku threatens Mariana Islands
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Apr 12, 2026
Interest in EVs surges in Europe as fuel prices jump after Iran war
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Apr 11, 2026
Country diary: Cropping season this year brings a new worry – fuel prices | Colin Chappell
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Apr 10, 2026
Anger as swifts’ nesting holes in Derbyshire rail viaduct ‘blocked up’
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