The week in wildlife – in pictures

An Indian one-horned rhino wades through flood water in Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in the Morigaon district…

UK waste firm Biffa loses appeal after exporting dirty waste to China

One of the UK’s biggest waste firms has lost a case in the court of appeal…

Judge fines Greenpeace GBP80,000 over North Sea oil rig occupation

Greenpeace has been fined GBP80,000 after a Scottish court found it guilty of the “wilful defiance”…

Heatwaves have become longer in most of the world since 1950s – study

Heatwaves have increased in both length and frequency in nearly every part of the world since…

E-scooters go on trial in Middlesbrough to aid UK’s green recovery

Residents of Middlesbrough in north-east England will be the first in the UK to legally ride…

Trump abuses our national parks, and he’s doing it again at Mount Rushmore | Jonathan B Jarvis and Gary Machlis

In the United States, parks have always been used as spaces for public protest, places for…

Dry tropical forests may be more at risk than wet rainforests, study says

Dry tropical forests are more vulnerable to the impacts of global heating than had been thought,…

City crumbles as the sands shift on Senegal’s coast – in pictures

Babacar Diop, 42, chooses to continue living in the single remaining room of his house, though…

Britain beyond lockdown: can social and climate justice come together?

During lockdown, the wild grass in Bristol’s Greenbank cemetery has grown higher than many of the…

Can New England’s cod fishing industry survive?

It’s said cod were once so plentiful in New England they would throw themselves into a…