The week in wildlife – in pictures

A vine climbs along the bark of a tree in the Karura forest in Nairobi, Kenya…

British workers reject fruit-picking jobs as Romanians flown in

Thousands of British workers who responded to a nationwide appeal to help pick fruit and vegetables…

One reason why people of color are dying at higher rates in the US? The air they breathe | Mustafa Santiago Ali

To be a person of color in America often means to be unseen and unheard. It…

Falconers to be allowed to take wild peregrine chicks from nests

Conservationists have condemned the decision to allow falconers to take wild peregrine falcon chicks from nests…

‘We’re watching them die’: can right whales pull back from the brink?

“You can’t work on North Atlantic right whales and be a pessimist,” Clay George tells me.…

‘Coronavirus profiteers’ condemned as polluters gain bailout billions

Polluting industries around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic to gain billions of dollars in…

Country diary: life is at a standstill but the bees are still buzzing

Life is at a standstill. Homebound stasis forces me to look at the patch of the…

‘Nature is still there’: UK diary project heralds spring during lockdown

Some wrote in praise of the signs of spring glimpsed through windows or from balconies while…

Scientists trial cloud brightening equipment to shade and cool Great Barrier Reef

Scientists have carried out a trial of prototype cloud brightening equipment on the Great Barrier Reef…

Can cloud-brightening help save the Great Barrier Reef? Trials have begun – video

Play Video 1:41 Teams of Australian marine scientists have tested a technique they hope may give…