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Plants Can Hear the Sound of Falling Rain

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Research examines extending Port of Churchill shipping season via icebreaker

2h ago

‘A history of the Earth’: Twelve Apostles revealed to be as old as 14m years

9h ago

Republican lawmakers attempt to shield big oil from climate lawsuits in ‘alarming’ bills

11h ago

Bonobos enjoy pretend tea parties and chimps think rationally: why apes are more like us than we ever thought

14h ago

Use of toxic Pfas in consumer goods must be urgently restricted, MPs say

19h ago

Earth Day Started with an Oil Spill

Wed

Federal judge blocks Trump administration restrictions on wind and solar projects

Wed

Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds

Wed

How Ireland’s war-driven fuel blockades revealed the true cost of Europe’s oil addiction

Wed

EU plans to cut electricity taxes to shield households from Iran war energy crisis

Wed

Stern warning: one man’s mission to clear the rotting boats poisoning Cornwall’s creeks

Wed

Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns

Wed

Fury in Cornwall over herbicide plan to tackle weeds

Wed

Gibraltar’s monkeys eat mud ‘to avoid upset stomachs from tourist junk food’

Wed

Gas companies spending millions on Australian advertising blitz to fight export tax, inquiry told

Wed

Mouse plague hits WA grain farmers as numbers surge in SA: ‘You literally can’t get away from them’

Wed

Channel Seven’s Spotlight digging for dirt on clean energy ignores fundamental facts and basic journalistic standards | Temperature Check

Wed

Mud-rich coastline made 2011 Japan tsunami far more destructive, study finds

Wed

Heatwaves, floods and wildfires pose rising threat to democracy, report finds

Wed

Sudbury, Ont. declares state of emergency, braces for more flooding

Tue

Welsh farmers launch landmark claim against ‘intimidating’ pylon firm

Tue

Ready to take charge: three innovative types of energy storage

Tue

Sam Neill says New Zealand goldmine supporters have threatened him with violence

Tue

Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds

Tue

Bell’s AI Data Centre approved by council amidst chaotic protest

Tue

Cattle breed whose ancestors lived with Celts added to priority at-risk list

Tue

England wildlife watchdog ‘has stopped designating special sites for protection’

Tue

Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report

Tue

Montreal closes Île Mercier bridge to vehicles due to spring flooding

Tue

Climate groups sue US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico

Mon

Traces of fentanyl, other drugs found in some Ontario fish, study shows

Mon

Cocaine Fish: How Salmon Behave When Amped Up on Coke

Mon

Water NSW criticised for ‘appalling’ decision after hundreds of turtles left to die in wetlands

Mon

Cocaine pollution in rivers and lakes may disrupt behaviour of salmon, study finds

Mon

Democrats urged to link clean energy to affordability as Iran war hikes up prices

Mon

Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices

Mon

Weather tracker: temperatures in Spain and Brazil well above late April norm

Mon

‘The Moon and The Zoo’: Simon Armitage poem celebrates 200 years of ZSL

Mon

Ed Miliband to double down on net zero with measures to combat Iran energy shock

Mon

Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?

Sat

‘We can’t wait’: Venice already seeking floods plan B five years after barriers’ launch

Sat

Six great reads: Iran’s social media memes, an abandoned department store and a 1,200-year-old record of cherry blossoms

Sat

Canada’s emissions reductions slowed in 2024, federal data shows

Fri

Supreme court sides with oil and gas firms in Louisiana coastal damage fight

Fri

US Senate votes to repeal Biden-era ban on mining near Minnesota wilderness area

Fri

From Manitoba to Quebec, Canadians prepare for spring flooding

Fri

Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles

Fri

South Koreans breathe sighs of relief as escaped wolf is returned to zoo safely

Fri

Weather tracker: hail covers parts of Tunisia and Algeria like snow

Fri

Week in wildlife: a puffin bromance, blushing terrapins and goslings galore

Fri

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

Fri

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project

Fri

What went right this week: the good news that matters

Fri

In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures

Thu

The sustainable London markets championing local makers

Thu

Ammonia pollution hotspots found in areas of UK with most pig and poultry factory farms

Thu

The surprising value of boring chats, ‘super El Niño’ and Alzheimer’s evidence reviewed – podcast

Thu

How South Korea plans to use the Iran crisis to spur a renewables revolution

Thu

Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says

Apr 15

Gray whales, once rare in San Francisco Bay, dying there at alarming rates

Apr 15

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

Apr 15

Over-the-counter pet flea treatments could be banned under new UK rules

Apr 15

Amazon enters agreements for nine Australian renewable projects to power datacentres

Apr 15

Ant smuggler sentenced to a year in jail by Kenyan court

Apr 15

Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds

Apr 15

More than half of Britain’s butterfly species in decline, monitoring scheme shows

Apr 15

Bell holds closed-door meeting with Saskatchewan landowners over AI data centre

Apr 15

Chiang Mai’s New Year revelry hit by smog and war-related price spikes

Apr 14

B.C. First Nation travels to U.K., seeks compensation 9 years after fuel spill

Apr 14

NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis

Apr 14

What does the new £1bn investment in community energy really mean?

Apr 14

‘Nothing but tree skeletons’: record-breaking wildfires devastate US cattle country

Apr 14

BP hails ‘exceptional’ trading as oil prices soar in Iran war

Apr 14

‘Suddenly, boom, it’s completely warm’: summers are getting longer – especially in Sydney, study finds

Apr 14

Giant echidnas weighing 15kg roamed Victoria – and the evidence was hiding in plain sight

Apr 14

MSPs not told about collapse of funding deal for Scottish nature restoration

Apr 14

The Centuries-Old History of the Super El Niño

Apr 13

Colombia to cull up to 80 hippos descended from Pablo Escobar zoo

Apr 13

Spring flowers bloom in England after hot weather and cold snap create ideal conditions

Apr 13

Bosses of Santos, Woodside, Chevron and Shell asked to give evidence to Greens-led gas tax inquiry

Apr 13

Are we heading for ‘super El Nino’ – and what could we expect?

Apr 13

‘King of the birds’ set to return to England’s skies

Apr 13

Weather tracker: Super Typhoon Sinlaku threatens Mariana Islands

Apr 13

Rolls-Royce secures nearly £600m in UK government cash to develop small reactors

Apr 13

Golden eagles could be reintroduced to England after more than 150 years

Apr 11

The war over Omagh’s gold: the £21bn mine plan tearing a community apart

Apr 11

‘Illegal’ forest service overhaul risks causing ‘chaos’ across US public lands, union claims

Apr 10

Weather tracker: Cyclone Maila batters Solomon Islands with 115mph winds

Apr 10

‘An abomination’: Lancashire town up in arms over stench from reopened landfill

Apr 10

Week in wildlife: an ostrich on the lam, a tortoise crossing a road and surfing seals

Apr 10

Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB

Apr 10

Lava bursts forth as Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts

Apr 10

US agency proposes rolling back rules for safe disposal of toxic coal ash

Apr 9

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

Apr 9

US had hottest March on record as nation faced ‘unprecedented’ heat

Apr 9

Bright idea shines hope on struggling pollinators

Apr 9

Argentina approves Milei’s glacier mining bill amid environmental protests

Apr 9

Bitten by snakes 200 times – on purpose: US man’s quest to help deliver new antivenom

Apr 9

Campaigners demand action to break UK’s ‘addiction’ to herbicides

Apr 9