Helena Horton Environment reporter    Group banned plants removed from habitat’ from its shows causing uproar from enthusiastsA furious row has blown up in the UK’s leading succulent society over the practice of taking desirable specimens from the wild, with the chair resigning in protest over the behaviour of his fellow...

Patrick Greenfield    Open letter calls for green policies that empower farmers, after months of protests jeopardise future of flagship biodiversity dealThe EU’s nature restoration law will only work if it is enacted in partnership with farmers, a group of leading scientists has said, after months of protests have...

George Monbiot    Soiled seas and huge shareholder dividends: where has the bn borrowed by firms since privatisation gone So that’s how they do it. I’d been wondering how, when more sewage has been entering our rivers than ever before, some of the water companies have managed to improve the ratio of the sewage...

Sofia Quaglia    Researchers also find zebra finches less likely to hatch from eggs if exposed to noise pollutionNoise pollution from traffic stunts growth in baby birds, even while inside the egg, research has found.Unhatched birds and hatchlings that are exposed to noise from city traffic experience long term...

Patrick Barkham    Global warming and international trade offering increasingly hospitable environment Some are small and jumpy; others are large and intimidating if you’re a humble housefly. Exotic spiders are flourishing in Britain as international trade offers ample opportunities for spider travel and global...

Steve Reed    Sewage pollutes our waterways, species face extinction. We must act fast to halt the decline and we willSteve Reed is shadow environment secretaryWe must not be the last generation to have the opportunity to marvel at nature.When I was growing up, I took for granted the excitement of climbing...

Jasper Jolly    EV sales have plateaued across the world but the newfound glut of vehicles may just be temporaryElon Musk became the world’s richest man by evangelising about electric cars and delivering them by the million. Yet in recent months his company, Tesla, has struggled to maintain its momentum: sales...

Lauren Herdman and Matt Andrews for MetDesk    Rain in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi kills at least people and damages farmland and infrastructure Eastern Africa has experienced heavy rain in recent weeks, with flooding in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi. About , people have been displaced or otherwise affected in each country, with ...

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Jeremy Plester    Video series launched in which comics translate climate science into down to earth languageScientists can struggle to get their message across about the climate crisis to the wider public, so now comedians have been brought in to help cut through the science jargon and get widespread attention. In...

Hilary Beaumont    Years after the emergency, the Michigan city is yet to replace all lead pipes and affected families are still awaiting justiceEarlier this month, Brittany Thomas received a call that her year old daughter Janiyah had experienced a seizure at school. She’d been seizure free for about two years...

Maddie Thomas    These cafes are determined to steer customer habits back away from single use cupsChange by Degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions Email us at changebydegrees...

Hussein Julood    Ali died of cancer last year. He was , and had to live in the choking smoke of the Rumaila oilfieldA year has passed since my beautiful boy Ali Julood died. Not a day goes by when I do not think of him smiling and playing football with his friends outside. Those days are gone. As a father, that...

Svenja Schulze, Fernando Haddad, Enoch Godongwana, Marà­a Jesàºs Montero and Carlos Cuerpo    Finance chiefs say higher taxes for the super rich are key to battling global inequality and climate crisisBillionaires should pay minimum wealth tax, say G ministersWhen the governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund convened for the spring meetings last week, it was all...

Tony Juniper    A dawn chorus of flutes, whistles and chirps once flowed through my Cambridge window, but there has been a shocking collapse in birdlife. What can be done Every year from February through to June, the early morning chorus of birdsong is one of the most evocative manifestations of spring. During...

Phoebe Weston    Swallows, cuckoos, curlews so many species have dwindled or disappeared completely, and people are mourning their loss Read more: World faces deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn expertsThe sounds of our natural world are changing dramatically. Earth’s wildlife populations...

Phoebe Weston    More than of the planet’s species live in the earth below our feet, but only a fraction have been identified so farRead more: No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: how a haven for nature fell silentThe sound of an earthworm is a distinctive rasping and scrunching. Ants sound...

Eva Corlett in Wellington, New Zealand    As nature falls silent in most cities around the world, New Zealand’s capital has been transformed by the sound of native birds returning to the dawn chorusRead more: No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: how a haven for nature fell silentSome time in the pre dawn darkness, the...

Karen McVeigh in the Galápagos Islands    As diplomats search for a deal to curb the world’s growing problem of plastic, piles of bottles, buoys, nets and packaging keep building up in what should be a pristine environmentAs our small fishing boat slows to a halt in a shallow bay south east of Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, in the Gal pagos...

Donna Ferguson    Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat tolerant larvae back to degraded reefs in the MaldivesAn underwater experiment to restore coral reefs using a combination of coral IVF and recordings of fish noises could offer a beacon of hope to scientists who fear the fragile...

Emma Bryce    In the first of a new series, we look at why people reject so much of the bountiful catches from our seas in favour of the same few species, mostly imported and how to change thatPerched on a quay in the Cornish port of Falmouth is Pysk fishmongers, where Giles and Sarah Gilbert started out with...

Leyland Cecco in Toronto    Notorious for drawing large crowds, Emerson was removed by officials who were surprised to find him back in Victoria in a weekLast week, gun wielding conservation officers stuffed a lb elephant seal in the back of a van, drove him along a winding highway in western Canada and left him on a...

Karen McVeigh and Helena Smith in Athens    The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by Greece has become the first country in Europe to announce a ban on bottom trawling in all of its national marine parks and protected areas.The country said will spend m ...

Arthur Neslen    Exclusive: ex officials at the Food and Agriculture Organization say its leadership censored and undermined them when they highlighted how livestock methane is a major greenhouse gasEx officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censoredAnalysis: Impact of farming on climate...

Arthur Neslen    Exclusive: Pressure from agriculture lobbies led to role of cattle in rising global temperatures being underplayed by FAO, claim sources The anti livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate changeAnalysis: Impact of farming on climate crisis will be a key...

Sophie Kevany    Cargill and ADM led push to weaken new protections for threatened ecosystems in South America, report saysCargill and ADM, two of the world’s leading livestock feed companies, helped to scupper an attempt to end the trade in soya beans grown on deforested and threatened ecosystem lands in South...

Sophie Kevany    Outbreaks in the Lombardy pork belt’ were extinguished, say experts, but wild boar could act as a reservoirHuge pig culls took place last week in Italy in an attempt to contain the country’s largest outbreak of African swine fever ASF virus since the s, which threatened the entire pig...

Joanna Ruck    Authorities are rushing to save more than whales from a mass stranding at a beach in Western Australia’s south west. Four pods have spread across roughly metres at Toby Inlet near Dunsborough and of these have died, Parks and Wildlife Service Western Australia confirmed. Wildlife...

Matt Fidler    Video shows trees and shrubs along Western Australia’s south west coastline turning brown after Perth recorded it hottest and driest six months since records began. There were similar scenes in the state’s south west eucalypt forests in and a major die back event that prompted more than...

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   Scientists have recorded widespread bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as global heating creates a fourth planet wide bleaching event. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch, of ocean waters containing coral reefs have been experiencing heat stress...

   A new collection of wildlife photography aims to help understand why people have photographed animals at different points in history and what it means in the present. Huw Lewis Jones explores the animal in photography through the work of more than photographers in Why We Photograph Animals,...

   Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled.In a landmark decision on one of three major climate cases, the first such ruling by an international court, the ECHR raised judicial pressure on governments to stop filling the...

   Footage captures flooding near the rural township of Charleville following a weekend of heavy rain in parts of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Communities across the region have been impacted by flooding, with some isolated by road closures.According to the Bureau of Meteorology,...