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Last summer was second worst for common UK butterflies since 1976

56m ago

Greens promise to push government to spend 1% of budget on environment if they hold balance of power

3h ago

Wildlife groups express alarm at plan to ‘streamline’ UK environmental rules

6h ago

California wildfire threatening forest home of world’s oldest tree

11h ago

Power to the people: the rise of community energy

16h ago 5m read

Quebec becomes last province to have carbon price

17h ago 5m read

UK housebuilders ‘very bad’ at building houses, says wildlife charity CEO

19h ago

Gas producers question whether Coalition’s energy plan will cut consumer prices

21h ago

Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows

21h ago

Malaysia fire: huge blaze erupts near Kuala Lumpur as gas pipeline explodes

Tue

Birmingham declares major incident over bin strike as piles of waste grow

Mon

‘A pandemic-level shock to the system’: RFK Jr’s old environmental group weighs EPA cuts

Mon

More than 390K still without power in Ontario after weekend ice storm

Mon 2m read

Weather tracker: Arctic winter sea ice at record low in 2025, scientists say

Mon

Growing and sharing seeds can boost mental health

Mon 3m read

Tesla investors brace for global sales data amid consumer backlash over Elon Musk

Mon

Spain’s wild horses in peril – in pictures

Mon

Albanese says federal EPA will not be ‘same model’ as earlier one he promised but didn’t deliver

Mon

Extreme weather across Australia brings drought, heatwaves and severe floods

Mon

Cadia goldmine operators fined $350,000 for breaches of NSW clean-air laws

Mon

Australia’s best photos of the month – March 2025

Sun

Search resumes for man missing in NSW flood waters as east coast battered by intense rainfall

Sun

Brisbane city council blocks plans for fridge-sized community batteries due to loss of green space

Sat

All-female and able to survive 24,000 years on ice: all hail the resilient rotifer

Sat

Nature’s secret soundscape: listen with me to the world’s quietest creatures

Sat

Magnificent, rare worm with its own campaign song: the giant Gippsland earthworm

Sat

Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed

Fri

Coalition’s gas plan unlikely to lower prices and could push up greenhouse gas emissions, experts say

Fri

Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website

Fri

Export of endangered eels to Russia ends after UK government ban

Fri

‘We live in both worlds’: how teachers of Gullah Geechee herbal medicine are cultivating tradition

Fri

Weather tracker: Heavy rain alerts in Queensland as floods cut off towns

Fri

The weekend weather forecast is in – and it’s wet and wild for much of Australia, including Sydney and Brisbane

Fri

What went right this week: the good news that matters

Fri 2m read

Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests

Thu

EU appears to back down on carbon levy on international shipping

Thu

‘The nation is watching’: sewage dumps in Windermere must end, says activist

Thu

Labor’s grassroots environmental group dismayed by rushed bill protecting salmon industry

Thu

Stinging deaths, back yard poisons and billions spent: model predicts Australia’s fire ants future

Thu

US could see return of acid rain if pollution rules are quashed, says scientist who first discovered it

Thu

Just Stop Oil to ‘hang up the hi-vis’ after three years of climate action

Thu

Nearly 4m hours of raw sewage dumped in England’s waters last year

Thu

Weatherwatch: Could global heating wreak havoc on Earth’s satellites?

Thu

No mention of green issues by Rachel Reeves, but her silence comes as a relief

Wed

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s a ‘sharktopus’: A marine pairing like no other

Wed 3m read

Pick for German agriculture minister withdraws after activists storm farm

Wed

Controversial bill to protect Tasmanian salmon industry passes despite environmental concerns

Wed

Charity faces legal action after relocated elephants in Malawi allegedly kill 10 people

Wed

Martian dust may pose health risk to humans exploring red planet, study finds

Wed

B.C. tabling legislation to kill consumer carbon price for April 1

Tue 2m read

Methane emissions from Queensland mine may be gross underestimates, UN research finds

Tue

Some water boss bonuses in England could be banned, says Ofwat

Tue

Bearing nature’s beauty and fragility – snoozing king of the Arctic wins photo contest

Tue 1m read

Coalition’s potential rethink on EV rules could make fuel-guzzling utes and SUVs an election issue

Tue

Call for pets’ toxic flea treatments to be tightly restricted in UK

Tue

US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause

Tue

‘Alarming’ bill to protect Tasmanian salmon farming could stop communities challenging other projects

Mar 25

Rewilding the curriculum: natural history GCSE to be introduced in the UK

Mar 24 3m read

The battle for Glasgow’s Wyndford estate – photo essay

Mar 24

UK charities urge ministers to stop scapegoating nature for planning failures

Mar 24

World’s first case of bird flu in sheep detected in England

Mar 24

Labor vows to establish federal EPA if it wins second term – weeks after shelving 2022 election promise

Mar 24

Weather tracker: Severe thunderstorms threaten flooding in northern Australia

Mar 24

Fire ant sting hospitalisations surge post-Cyclone Alfred as reports of first pet death also emerge

Mar 24

Labor’s bid to protect Tasmanian salmon industry met with unease from pro-environment MPs

Mar 24

Nationals guarantee that Coalition can lower power prices ‘in the short term’ met with scepticism

Mar 24

MPs could axe clause in bill banning forced labour in GB Energy supply chain

Mar 23

‘Apoplectic’ environment groups halt Coalition attack ads to take aim at Albanese over species’ ‘death warrant’

Mar 23

Kemi Badenoch accused of breaking pledge to Tory MPs of net zero by 2050

Mar 23

Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events

Mar 22

The 5 senses of spring: How climate change is shaping our seasonal experience

Mar 22 10m read

Scientists identify ‘tipping point’ that caused clumps of toxic Florida seaweed

Mar 22

Falconer ‘extremely close’ to catching hawk attacking Hertfordshire villagers

Mar 21

Ditch the balloons and swap the plastic toys for cake: how to have a waste-free birthday party

Mar 21

March of the Mangroves

Mar 21 10m read

Octopus jumps shark and goes for a ride on its back

Mar 21

Bob Brown urges Greens to punish Labor at election if Albanese amends law to protect salmon farming

Mar 21

Use of pesticides on UK farms to be cut by 10% by 2030 to protect bees

Mar 21

Greenpeace loss will embolden big oil and gas to pursue protesters: ‘No one will feel safe’

Mar 21

Weather tracker: Tornadoes and wildfires kill at least 40 across US

Mar 21

What went right this week: the good news that matters

Mar 21 2m read

The mystery of why kangaroos hop could be solved thanks to this musky mammal

Mar 21

New forest to be created in west of England, with 20m trees planted by 2050

Mar 21

Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts as volcano shoots 700ft lava

Mar 20

Spanish parliament vote on cutting food waste will end ban on wolf hunting

Mar 20

West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide

Mar 20

Carney will maintain oil and gas emissions cap, environment minister says

Mar 20 2m read

Defra asks England’s biggest landowners to come up with plans to restore nature

Mar 20

Watchdog investigating whether Defra breaking laws on cleaning up English rivers

Mar 20

Trump administration ‘villainizes’ immigrant families with misleading directive on food aid

Mar 20

RSCPA revokes Huon’s accreditation after video showing live salmon being dumped in Tasmania

Mar 20

UK must spend £1.5bn a year on flood defences to protect public, experts warn

Mar 20

Take a blossom break at work, National Trust urges, as spring warms UK

Mar 20

Alberta proposes oil-site trespass bill to keep federal workers from grabbing data

Mar 19 2m read

The Deadly Story of a Life-Giving Element

Mar 19 7m read

The Extraordinary, Imperiled Science at the End of the Earth

Mar 19 10m read

Farmer’s house in danger from climate change, court told in RWE case

Mar 19

Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury

Mar 19

Factcheck: Kemi Badenoch’s claim that net zero is ‘impossible’ by 2050

Mar 19

Scottish oil refinery could be turned into hub for green chemicals

Mar 19