Country diary: the creature I’m after lurks at the very bottom of the pond

Almost 70, on my knees, and staring at life below the surface of our garden pond…

World nature photography awards – in pictures

Andre Fajardo free diving early one summer morning, Hawaiian Islands Gold prize winner in the human…

How Australia’s regent honeyeaters are learning the wrong songs – video

New research has found that a loss of song culture could be a big problem for…

PPE use in England generated ‘colossal’ amount of carbon

The considerable use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in health and social care services in England…

How an endangered Australian songbird is forgetting its love songs

Senate Republicans plot their Covid aid payback

After getting steamrolled by Democrats on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid plan, Republicans are…

Menendez slams GOP’s Ron Johnson for ‘bigoted tropes’

Sen. Bob Menendez ripped GOP Sen. Ron Johnson after Johnson suggested that he would be more…

PM accused of hypocrisy for claiming climate is ‘foremost priority’

‘A mountain out of a molehill’: Feinstein dismisses Newsom’s talk of her replacement

Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced last November that she would step down from her role as the…

Special brew: eco-friendly Peruvian coffee leaves others in the shade

The Mayni people are harvesting shade-grown coffee from under the canopy of mature trees, with huge…