How we talk about the climate crisis is increasingly crucial to tackling it | Susanna Rustin

Our emotional register – how ‘doomy’ or ‘hopeful’ we are – will inevitably shape the policies…

How Dems learned to stop worrying (mostly) and embrace tax hikes

President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are taking a big gamble: that raising taxes can be…

Sharks use Earth’s magnetic field as ‘GPS’ guidance system, study says

Florida scientists use juvenile bonnetheads for research Authors say findings applicable to other ocean-going sharks Scientists…

‘Catastrophic’: Sierra Leone sells rainforest for Chinese harbour

Controversial deal with China would be ‘disastrous’ for fishing and protected rainforest, say opponents A $55m…

UK plastics sent for recycling in Turkey dumped and burned, Greenpeace finds

Investigation reveals that ‘plastic waste coming from the UK to Turkey is an environmental threat, not…

Photographers rewrite list of ‘big five’ animals to shoot

Project turns trophy hunters’ hit list into a conservation tool – and reveals the animals we…

Country diary: why do birdwatchers prize the ring ouzel so much?

Wolf Edge, Staffordshire: This blackbird in disguise is scarce and getting scarcer – but that doesn’t…

Fabled land or false narrative: what is the modern outback?

One of the world’s last great untamed areas needs protection. In Guardian Australia’s new series, we…

Senators tout bipartisan effort to combat sexual assault in military

Sen. Joni Ernst speaks beside Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and other lawmakers at an April 29 news…

Critics of UK low-traffic schemes told that 25,000 filters already existed

Researchers find road blocks that we’d already accepted before introduction of divisive low-traffic neighbourhoods At least…