House lawmakers strike bipartisan deal to extend small business loan program

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The Green New Deal’s time has come – but where has Labour’s radicalism gone? | Adam Tooze

What a difference power makes. The past 18 months saw political defeats for the left on…

Democratic centrists balk at more red ink after Covid spending spree

Sen. Angus King speaks during a Senate committee hearing. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Democrats are eyeing…

‘Ecological island’: as Maasai herding lands shrink, so does space for Kenya’s elephants

Kenyan elephants risk a slow extinction in a bleak, ever-shrinking “ecological island” in one of the…

Budget cuts and collapse in tourism revenue pose ‘severe’ threat to nature

Job cuts in nature reserves and environmental rollbacks by governments during the Covid-19 pandemic could undermine…

A wet March makes a sad autumn? How Victorians viewed weather

The Victorians did not have much idea what caused weather patterns but they knew what effect…

Country diary: a pheasant can take care of itself

A woman stopped me in the lane, to say she’d heard a bird in pain, I…

Is the government ready to lead the fight against the climate crisis?

Later this year, the government will host COP26 in Glasgow – possibly one of the last…

Three stories of hope: 10 years on from Japan’s triple disaster

Much has changed along the hundreds of miles of devastated coastline and the recovery is gathering…

What is this ‘hot pigeon’? Is it even real?

One of the main characters on Twitter today is the pink-necked green-pigeon, a photo of which…