‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians
‘This is climate change’: Scottish beach eroding by 7 metres a year
July 2024
Country diary
Country diary 1924: a panorama of changing lights and colours
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Roots and refuge: the year’s best mangrove images – in pictures
Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens us all
George Monbiot
Country diary
Country diary: Two of us face down the Atlantic drizzle
Real-time water quality monitors installed at wild swimming spots in southern England
Seascape: the state of our oceans
‘Everyone was paddling to get away’: seals with rabies alarm South Africa’s surfers
Pass notes
XL gullies: how birds ‘as big as turkeys’ took over Britain
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds
The Great British Seaside
The fossil finder: one man’s lifelong search for fragments of Britain’s Jurassic past – photo essay
June 2024
The age of extinction
Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study
Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
‘Your plastic is here’: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore
Country diary
Country diary: Sharks, clams and eelgrass – this is an underwater haven
May 2024
Country diary
Country diary 1924: dead seaweed is not always a safe refuge
30 May 1924: We watched a turnstone throwing over the dead weed and pouncing on as many light-surprised refugees as it could catch
Notes and queries
Readers reply: why are bodies of water so calming?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
The age of extinction
Half of world’s mangrove forests are at risk due to human behaviour – study
‘The fear has properly set in’: how it feels to watch my home town disappear into the sea
