Animals farmed: heat stress, happy cows and foie gras bans

News from around the world Outbreaks of Covid-19 continue at meat-processing plants in the US, according…

Albuquerque’s ‘urban wildlife refuge’: much-needed green space or green gentrification?

Albuquerque’s South Valley was once a thriving oasis of food production watered by a network of…

America’s year of hunger: how children and people of color suffered most

Black families in the US have gone hungry at two to three times the rate of…

Pacheedaht First Nation chiefs in Canada tell anti-logging protesters to leave their lands

Two chiefs of a First Nation in western Canada have told anti-old growth logging protesters camped…

Dems wrestle with whether to nudge a justice off the Supreme Court

Even as some liberal groups boot up a “Breyer Retire” campaign, the Democratic Party is sensitive…

UK’s native woodlands reaching crisis point, report warns

The UK’s native woodlands are reaching a crisis point, with just 7% in good condition, according…

Birdwatch: Leach’s petrel, a storm-driven visitor wrecked on our shore

The wind had dropped a little, but still made my eyes water, and I was finding…

Indian jumping ants have ability to shrink brain and re-grow it — study

Few species in the animal kingdom can change the size of their brain. Fewer still can…

Eat, roam, repeat: Can the bison’s big appetite stop Spain’s forest fires?

As the temperatures begin to rise, Spain is braced for another summer of the forest fires…

Country diary: a pair of blackbirds has moved in by the kitchen window

An underemployed male blackbird is perched at the top of the hedge, not singing, not feeding,…