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29  mars     11h00
They kept us alive for thousands of years’: could saving Palestinian seeds also save the world?
Whitney Bauck    Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, believes biodiversity will save the planet in the climate crisisThe first year that the Hudson Valley Seed Company tried growing yakteen at their farm in upstate New York, the heirloom variety of Palestinian gourd quickly spread until...
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Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?
Kaamil Ahmed, Damien Gayle and Aseel Mousa in Gaza    Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivableIn a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu...
    12h00
Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England
Patrick Barkham    Lower Pertwood in Wiltshire aims to restore declining plants, insects and endangered species The rolling hills south of Salisbury Plain are a bleak scene of vast arable fields and tightly grazed pasture dotted with scores of sheep.In recent decades, Lower Pertwood farm has embraced organic growing,...
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He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’: the double lives of Ukraine’s Antarctic scientists
Janie Hampton in Antarctica    When the research team at Vernadsky base are not defending their homeland, they are on the frontline of the climate crisisWhen Ukraine’s Antarctic research and supply vessel Noosfera left Odesa on its maiden voyage on January , it passed Russian warships in the Black Sea. A month later,...
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Weather tracker: Cyclone Gamane unexpectedly veers into Madagascar
Daniel Harris    At least dead on African island, while another deadly storm racks Indonesian island of SumatraMadagascar was unexpectedly hit by Cyclone Gamane as it veered into the island country’s northern district of Vohemar during the early hours of Wednesday, resulting in at least deaths.The storm was...
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Copernicus online portal offers terrifying view of climate emergency
Paul Brown    Looking at the mass of information, there is only one conclusion: we are running out of timeThere is so much information on the newly launched Copernicus Climate Change Service atlas that my laptop started to overheat trying to process it all. As well as all the past data, it predicts where the...
    05h00
Extortionate Easter eggs and shrinking sweets: fears grow of a chocolate meltdown’
Patrick Greenfield    Poor harvests in extreme weather conditions have led to a tripling of cocoa prices but farmers have seen no benefitAround the world this holiday weekend, people will consume hundreds of millions of Easter eggs and bunnies, as part of an annual chocolate intake that can exceed kg lb for every...
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Country diary: I’ve become a taxi service for the ladybirds Charlie Elder
Charlie Elder    West Dartmoor, Devon: They must have got into my house last autumn, and now they’re emerging in a wonderful variety of markings and spot numbersLadybird, ladybird, fly away home... Only, it seems they have all flown into mine. Every morning I come across several on the inside of the...
28  mars     15h13
Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed?
Miranda Lipton    A process called biofortification puts nutrients directly into seeds and could reduce global hunger, but it’s not a magic bulletIn , Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas made an alarming discovery: foods, mostly vegetables, showed a marked decrease in nutrients...
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Being so helpless is hard to describe’: can rescuers win the race against time to save an orphaned orca?
Leyland Cecco in Toronto    Experts are trying everything from drums to whale calls to lure kÊ iisa iÊ is or Brave Little Hunter out of the Canadian lagoon she has been trapped in since the stranding death of her motherAs a two year old orca calf circled a lagoon off the west coast of Canada on Monday, she heard a...
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People mustn’t feel meat is being taken away’: German hospitals serve planetary health diet
Ajit Niranjan    A group of hospitals serve up a menu rich in plants and say they have had few complaintsPatrick Burrichter did not think about saving lives or protecting the planet when he trained as a chef in a hotel kitchen. But years later he has focused his culinary skills on doing exactly that.From an...
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We’d like to shoot them all’: growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe
John Last    Experts say the hybrids risk polluting’ the genetic stock, but scientists disagree on how to deal with them. In Piedmont, Italy, the sight of a blond wolfdog signals the risk of another new litterPhotographs by Alberto OliveroFrom the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the...
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Sinking US cities increase risk of flooding from rising sea levels
Jeremy Plester    Subsidence linked to extraction of groundwater and natural gas, and weight of buildings pressing into soft groundA number of cities on the US east coast are sinking, increasing the risk of flooding from rising sea levels.Between and the ground under New York, Baltimore and Norfolk in...
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Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals
Oliver Milman    World’s fossil fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report findsThe world’s fossil fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US...
29  mars     14h00
Black summer fires: a veteran ecologist says Australia’s bushfire modelling is flawed. Others disagree
Catie McLeod    Lives are at risk because of the way forest litter is estimated, a researcher says. But among some colleagues that’s a controversial viewGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhen it comes to what we know about bushfire behaviour, big questions remain unanswered...
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It takes a village: the Indian farmers who built a wall against drought
Roli Srivastava in Surajpura, Rajasthan    In rural Rajasthan, villagers have taken action against climate damage by constructing water saving walls, trenches and dams to revive their farmlandThe villagers of Surajpura have built a wall: a ft . metre mud bulwark that snakes through barren land for nearly a mile, with an equally long...
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A lot of question marks’: 70m renewable-energy microgrid project divides Daintree
Aaron Smith    The financial viability of the government subsided scheme in the world heritage listed area is just one of its many unknownsThere are some mixed feelings in the Daintree community in far north Queensland about building a renewable energy microgrid.The MW solar farm with a MW battery and a MW...
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Digested week: Germany has the right idea on dachshunds. Dogs should be cuddly Lucy Mangan
Lucy Mangan    Germans want to ban torture breeding’ for extreme characteristics. Plus: don’t even think about swimming in British waters this EasterI’ll say this for the Germans: when they’re right, they’re so right. Word reaches us that dachshunds are to be banned in Germany. Continue reading...
28  mars     00h42
The Albanese government is drifting from its environmental commitments - it’s time for transparency and good faith Jack Pascoe
Jack Pascoe    Environment minister Tanya Plibersek’s reforms are running so late there’s speculation the government will weaken them at the expense of the environmentFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAfter less than two...
25  mars     17h08
Why is the right at war with cyclists? We’re not wokerati’ - we’re just trying to get around Zoe Williams
Zoe Williams    Riding a bike is not a political act, yet cyclists have become the bete noire for the anti woke, anti green, anti liberal crowdGetting my bike nicked was like losing a pet. I didn’t want a new one; I wanted to go back in time and not lose my old one. But, in the end, an inanimate object is not...
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Blaming John Howard is easy, but his government helped shape the world we live in - now and for future generations Grogonomics
Greg Jericho    An overheated property market, education taxes and more expensive healthcare successive governments have left a bitter legacy for millennialsWho screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part Full Story podcastWho screwed millennials out of affordable housing Part Full Story...
26  mars     07h00
Cautious optimism’ as penguins test positive for bird flu but show no symptoms
Phoebe Weston    Asymptomatic cases may seem reassuring for the penguins, but scientists fear they could act as Trojan horses’ for other speciesAdélie penguins in Antarctica are testing positive for bird flu without showing outward signs of disease, according to researchers who travelled around remote breeding...
21  mars     09h00
I discovered why seemingly healthy amphibians were being wiped out
Andrew Cunningham    The mass deaths were puzzling scientists around the world there were no signs of viruses or parasites. Then we looked closely at their skinIt was while we were sitting and talking in a hotel bar at the first global congress of herpetology that the world’s amphibian experts realised there was a...
29  mars     09h30
Bolivian Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of holy grail of shipwrecks’
Luke Taylor in Bogotá    Descendants of enslaved miners who dug up gold, silver and emeralds worth billions call on Colombia to halt plan to lift cargoIndigenous communities in Bolivia have objected to Colombia’s plans to recover the remains of an th century galleon believed to be carrying gold, silver and emeralds worth...
26  mars     09h00
Eyes in the sky: why drones are beyond effective’ for animal rights campaigners around the world
Laura Trethewey    Inexpensive and easy to use, drones are proving invaluable for activists monitoring illegal fishing, hunting and deforestation as well as keeping tabs on zoos and aquariumsLate last year, UrgentSeas received an anonymous tip from a former employee at the Miami Seaquarium about animal tanks away...
21  mars     08h00
Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana do underwater photoshoot for ocean conservation charity
David Barnett    Stars of Avatar: The Way of Water photographed in baroque style by Christy Lee Rogers Photographs of the actors Kate Winslet, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver seemingly floating underwater in elaborate blue dresses, with eyes shut and arms outstretched, are to be sold to raise money for ocean...
20  mars     07h00
Hoovered’ up from the deep: 33,000 hours of seabed trawling revealed in protected UK waters
Karen McVeigh    Analysis shows alarming prevalence of harmful fishing methods thought to destroy whole ecosystems’Industrial vessels suspected of using a harmful fishing method known as bottom trawling spent more than , hours in British marine protected areas last year, a new analysis of satellite data...
18  mars     10h30
Holy grail of shipwrecks’: recovery of 18th-century Spanish ship could begin in April
Luke Taylor in Bogotá    The San José, sunk in , has been at the center of a dispute over who has rights to the wreck, including bn in bootySince the Colombian navy discovered the final resting place of the Spanish galleon San José in , its location has remained a state secret, the wreck and its precious cargo...
20  octobre     10h00
The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate change
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...
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Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored
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...
06  octobre     05h00
Top grain traders helped scupper’ ban on soya from deforested land
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...
25  septembre     17h31
Italy culls tens of thousands of pigs to contain African swine fever
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...
29  mars     08h00
Week in wildlife - in pictures: pedalo hijinks and a raccoon doing a handstand
Joanna Ruck    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
28  mars     03h04
From a graceful turn to a dangerous toy: the World Nature Photography awards 2024 - in pictures
Guardian Staff    The World Nature Photography award winners have been announced from a pool of entries from all corners of the globe including a baby elephant in Kenya and an owl like plant in Thailand. The top award and cash prize of , went to Tracey Lund from the UK for her image of two gannets under the...
25  mars     07h00
Changes in Antarctica’s glaciers and ice sheets: in pictures
Sebnem Coskun    Turkey’s eighth national Antarctic science expedition is seeking answers to questions about the future of the world with different projects on the continent. Anadolu Agency’s photojournalist Sebnem Coskun is documenting the expedition’s scientific research, climate change impacts and life in the...
22  mars     09h27
Paddington’ bears spotted in Bolivian forest raise hopes for species’ survival - video
Joanna Ruck    A Bolivian conservation programme has identified at least ’Paddington’ bears in areas where they had not been spotted before. The animal is the inspiration behind the beloved fictional character Paddington, who travels to London, is adopted by a family and eats lashings of marmalade. In ,...
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Week in wildlife - in pictures: a majestic crane, a clumsy owlet and sleepy seals
Guardian Staff    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
20  mars     15h27
Endangered pygmy hippo born at Athens zoo - video
   For the first time in years, a baby pygmy hippo has been born at Attica Zoological Park. Zoo staff said they were thrilled to welcome the birth as a lack of male pygmy hippos in captivity made breeding efforts complicated. The rare male calf was born on February and joins his parents, Lizzie...
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Video shows koalas clinging to trees as gum trees cut down on Kangaroo Island - video
   WARNING: contains images some viewers may find distressingFootage supplied to Guardian Australia shows koalas clinging to falling blue gums as logging occurs on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. The footage was taken across two days in November and January . Logging has been stopped...