Rare white grizzly bear spotted in Canada’s Rocky Mountains – video

Play Video 0:24 A rare white grizzly bear has been spotted in Canada’s Rocky Mountains. According…

The Guardian view on climate and Covid: time to make different choices | Editorial

The dust storms that devastated the US prairie during the Great Depression were the worst ecological…

‘Exploitative conditions’: Germany to reform meat industry after spate of Covid-19 cases

The German government has announced a series of reforms of the meat industry, including a ban…

The week in wildlife – in pictures

A rabbit in Tiergarten Park in Berlin, Germany Photograph: Omer Messinger/EPA A goldenrod crab spider (…

Has the coronavirus pandemic made us all nicer?

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Is that true of the virus? Has it made…

Humanity must take this chance to find a new ‘normal’ – and safeguard our planet

There is a lot of talk about getting back to normal after the Covid-19 crisis is…

We now have the proof: greening the economy doesn’t come at the price of prosperity

Everest is once again visible from Kathmandu, after decades shrouded in pollution. Greenhouse gas emissions have…

Young climate activists call for EU to radically reform farming sector

The EU’s farming sector needs radical reform, and the common agricultural policy (CAP) must be rewritten…

Disappearances, danger and death: what is happening to fishery observers?

Liz Mitchell was on her laptop in her living room in Eugene, Oregon, when she got…

Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated – study

The abundance of microplastic pollution in the oceans is likely to have been vastly underestimated, according…