The rollercoaster saga of the Salisbury Cathedral peregrine falcons is continuing this spring, with one bird…
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Animals Farmed: Coronavirus threat to EU food supplies, America’s beef capital and the ‘anti-meat agenda’
News from around the world The food and farming industry has called for borders between EU…
Delay is deadly: what Covid-19 tells us about tackling the climate crisis | Jonathan Watts
The coronavirus pandemic has brought urgency to the defining political question of our age: how to…
Covid-19 economic rescue plans must be green, say environmentalists
The economic rescue packages to deal with the impact of the coronavirus must also be green,…
Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ show how invasive species can restore a lost world
When the drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot dead in 1993, he left behind a zoo…
Parliament pension fund cuts fossil fuel investments
Parliament’s pension fund has made record investments in renewable energy and cut its exposure to fossil…
Life in Earth’s deepest deep freeze – in pictures
Yakutia, a Russian republic in east Siberia, is one of the coldest places on Earth. In…
Country diary: catch these twinkling stars before their lights go out
In the hedgerows the blackthorn is shooting sprays of small white blossom upwards, thus signalling the…
Five-metre albino Burmese python captured at Gold Coast home – video
Play Video 1:01 This giant albino Burmese python, believed to be over five metres in length…
Weatherwatch: Costa Rican altitudes give rise to contrasting climates
Costa Rica may only be two-and-a-half times the size of Wales, but it boasts a wide…