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Environment

  • Dr Diana Warner, with short hair and in a dress with an art deco pattern, stands in the grass next to a bench, looking left

    Environmental activism
    ‘It’s sometimes right to disobey laws’: Doctor suspended for Insulate Britain protests speaks out

    Convicted of non-violent offences in Insulate Britain action, Dr Diana Warner is second GP to have licence suspended, which a medical tribunal ruled could damage patient trust
  • Ben Masters shot in a wildflower field

    Butterflies
    My dad’s dying gift to me: a love of butterflies

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CO2 tracker

Spotlight

  • Dried out fields in southern Sicily

    ‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink

  • Paige McClanahan in Paris.

    The good tourist: can we learn to travel without absolutely infuriating the locals?

    • Coastal headlands in south Taranaki, New Zealand

      The fight for iron sands: the bitter battle to protect New Zealand’s sea-floor riches

    • a hiker in red using cables to climb up a steep mountain

      The number of hikers visiting US national parks is increasing. So is the challenge of keeping them safe

    • Alan Finkel and Bessie with Toyota Mirai H2H2

      Is the hydrogen vehicle dream over? Australian car buyers are making their choice clear

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Opinion

  • Emma Brockes

    I’m all for the concept of ‘forest school’ – just not the kind I pulled my kids out of

    Emma Brockes
  • Felicity Hughes

    Madrid’s summers can be brutally hot. So why are so many of our trees being chopped down?

    Felicity Hughes
  • Graham Readfearn

    Fallout from Woodside’s birthday bash shows Australia is far from united in climate fight

    Graham Readfearn
  • A flare burns natural gas at an oil well

    Trump would pull out of Paris climate treaty again – and Harris faces tough choices

    Barry Eichengreen
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The age of extinction

  • A peacock butterfly

    What’s happened to all the butterflies? – podcast

  • A small tortoiseshell butterfly on lavender

    ‘This year has been dead’: where have Britain’s insects gone?

    Surveys suggest that wet weather and habitat deterioration are among the causes of devastating population declines, but there are ways to help
  • A stealthy jaguar seems to crouch behind a flower on the bank of a waterway.

    ‘Losing Noah’s Ark’: Brazil’s plan to turn the Pantanal into waterway threatens world’s biggest wetland

    Hidrovia project to dredge Paraguay River and build ports may destroy vast biodiversity and refuge of jaguars, giant otters and armadillos – and an age-old riverine way of life
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Seascape

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

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

  • Boys, one pushing a wheelbarrow, carry big plastic containers to collect water, Vanuatu.

    ‘The wells are salty’: how the invading ocean is contaminating Vanuatu’s water

    • The global network of cables that powers the internet is under increasing threat

      What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet

    • Two newborn olive ridley sea turtles seen from above make their way across the sand towards the sea. Dehiwala beach, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

      ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians

    • Phalanxes of umbrellas on the beach at Gaeta, a small city on the border between Campania and Lazio regions, as seen from the air.

      Sea, sand and sky-high fees: Italians tussle over their right to lie on the beach

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Multimedia

  • Rarely seen deep-sea fish washes up in California – video

  • A Rutland osprey swooping down to grab a fish

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a hunting osprey, a golf-loving snake and a hedgehog in a war zone

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Indian woman in a yellow sari picks fruit from a tree with few leaves in an arid landscape.

    Pushing the boundaries: Indian women in a man’s world – in pictures

    A Thousand Thorns is a project by photographer Deepti Asthana documenting women’s changing aspirations in rural India through the story of two young female forest guards in Rajasthan’s Thar desert. Theirs is a scenario playing out in millions of homes – of the fight for equality and independence in a deeply patriarchal society
  • 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

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

  • Juvenile Coyote in Oregon, Elkton, USA - 31 Jul 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14614187d) A juvenile coyote hunts as dusk falls on a grassy hillside on a farm near Elkton in southwestern Oregon. Their primary diet is made up of small rodents, but coyotes are opportunistic and will consume a vast array of foods including birds and insects, fruit and vegetables, human garbage and compost, outdoor pet food and small free-roaming pets. Juvenile Coyote in Oregon, Elkton, USA - 31 Jul 2024

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a soggy robin, a breaching whale and a coyote on the hunt

  • A new study is mapping the secrets to the remarkably steady flight of kestrels and could inform future drone designs and help achieve steadier flight in fixed wing aircraft

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    How the stunning and steady flight of the kestrel is informing the future of drone design – video

  • A man slides on flood water in a residential street

    Tropical Storm Debby deluges coastal US cities – in pictures

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