The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has called for more action to be taken to address the…
Month: September 2020
‘It’s going to be our way now’: the guerrilla rewilder shaking up British farming
I am sleeping in a shepherd’s hut 30 metres from a dozen wildcats. It’s an unusual…
Moths: Britain’s under-threat nocturnal treasures – in pictures
Hebrew character Moths, though sometimes overlooked in favour of butterflies, are more numerous and more varied.…
Country diary: strewn corpses point to an eight-legged killer
Spider season is upon us. Cross spiders have strung sticky spirals of silken thread between shrubs…
Under the cloak of Covid, the government is rushing ill-considered changes to Australia’s environment laws | Geoff Cousins
What a cruel irony it is that just when our prime minister is bemoaning the fact…
Higher price of electric cars a concern for more than half of UK consumers
Expensive prices for electric cars could hold back the UK’s transition from fossil fuel vehicles, the…
Pelosi and Mnuchin agree on plan to avoid government shutdown
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | Patrick Semansky/AP Photo Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin…
Burning bush, melting Arctic, a deadly virus: nobody said the end times would be boring | John Birmingham
For one brief shining moment it seemed humanity’s inability to imagine much beyond our lived experience…
Australia’s environment minister orders investigation into export of hundreds of endangered parrots
The environment minister, Sussan Ley, has appointed an auditor to investigate her own department over the…
New Zealand suspends live animal exports after ship sinks
Gulf Livestock 1, carrying more than 40 crew members and nearly 6,000 cattle, foundered off coast…