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Conservation

17 August 2024

  • An illustration of a globe cracking under pressure

    Fertility crisis
    Slow the growth, save the world? Why declining birth rates need not mean an end to prosperity

    The pursuit of eternal growth is toxic, campaigners say. The economy, and the planet, can thrive with fewer people

16 August 2024

  • The Flinders University ecoacoustics team listening to soil on campus. From left: Jake Robinson, Martin Breed, Nicole Fickling, Amy Annells, and Alex Taylor

    Click, crackle and pop: healthy soil makes more noise, scientists find

    Researchers at Australia’s Flinders University hope the acoustic method will make it easier to find and fix soil degradation

15 August 2024

  • Paul Watson, with his head down, while being taken away by police

    Anti-whaling activist to stay in Greenland jail while extradition decided

  • Maugean skates have been hatched in a captive breeding program in Tasmania

    Salmon industry in key Tasmanian location should be cut to save Maugean skate, scientists advise government

  • A peacock butterfly

    Science Weekly
    What’s happened to all the butterflies? – podcast

  • A woman in snorkelling gear swimming above clam shells on the sea floor

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘I am so happy to see them!’: fan mussels are back in Europe’s waters – but can scientists keep them alive?

14 August 2024

  • A crocodile about to eat a bait on the end of a stick

    Teaching crocodiles not to eat cane toads saves them from fatal poisoning, researchers discover

  • A black and white image of a kit beside an adult beaver in the undergrowth

    Britain experiencing a beaver baby boom as kits spotted across the country

12 August 2024

  • Wild Bengal tiger in the mangroves of Indian Sunderbans.

    Successful environmental projects benefit nature and people, study finds

  • Two Chilean flamingos feed a grey chick.

    Pair of Chilean male flamingos hatch egg at Devon zoo

  • Marbled white butterfly and bumblebee on a purple thistle during summer.

    The Guardian view on nature-friendly farming: England’s green subsidies are working

  • Boys of Kettering grammar school with John Steane, their headteacher, with an experimental Saxo-Norman iron smelting furnace in the 1960s.

    Other lives
    John Steane obituary

  • Breastfeeding women try to show orangutan how to care for baby at Dublin zoo

  • Ellis Park review – like its subject, Warren Ellis documentary moves to the beat of its own drum

  • Sir Ernest Hall obituary

  • The age of extinction
    ‘Losing Noah’s Ark’: Brazil’s plan to turn the Pantanal into waterway threatens world’s biggest wetland

10 August 2024

  • A limp bit of storytelling … Ozi: Voice of the Forest.

    Ozi: Voice of the Forest review – simian version of Greta Thunberg takes on evil corporation

    Orangutan Ozi is a simian Greta Thunberg in a film whose excellent animation is let down by underdeveloped characters and blind faith in social media activism

  • Conservation group releases video showing logging near endangered greater gliders – video

    The group says the logging in a state-owned forest in Queensland is taking place less than 3km from a high-density population group of endangered greater gliders
  • A gamekeeper, with a black dog, stands among heather in the background as two grouse fly across the landscape in front

    Call for tougher policing of Scottish grouse moors on eve of ‘Glorious Twelfth’

    For first time, moors must hold licence under regime aiming to reduce unlawful killing of birds of prey by gamekeepers

8 August 2024

  • Orange and brown Pugh's mountain frog

    Conservationist fears NSW logging will drive frog named after him to extinction

    Dailan Pugh says protecting the endangered species, only identified in 2004 ‘is not rocket science’
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