Everything but the gull: how Ben Watt fought the Covid blues with birdsong

Blackcap! Chiffchaff! Warbler! The Everything But the Girl star is fighting to save a nature reserve…

Chuck Grassley is the 80-something everyone’s waiting on

OSSIAN, Iowa — Chuck Grassley still gets up at 4 a.m. every day and often goes…

The four fish I would still eat – even after watching Seaspiracy

The hit Netflix documentary encourages viewers to give up seafood altogether. But when it comes to…

Logging exempt from environment laws despite destroying threatened species’ Victorian habitat, court finds

VicForests won appeal even though federal court upheld finding its activities threatened greater glider and Leadbeater’s…

Tea-growing areas to be badly hit if global heating intensifies

In Kenya, the area of optimal tea-growing conditions will be reduced by more than a quarter…

At least 1m people facing starvation as Madagascar’s drought worsens

People eating termites and clay as UN says acute malnutrition has almost doubled this year in…

David Hockney on joy, longing and spring light: ‘I’m teaching the French how to paint Normandy!’

While enjoying an idyllic lockdown in France, the 83-year-old artist has created perhaps his most important…

Starwatch: your best chance of the year to see Mercury at night

Observers in the northern hemisphere can start tonight to look for the elusive target This May…

Small whale freed after getting stuck at lock on Thames in London

Rescuers worked during the night to free what is believed to be a 3-4 metre-long minke…

Country diary: moss and ivy have taken over this wild swimming pool

Gilsland Spa, Cumbria: The sides of the Victorian pool are half-hidden by the glossy emerald leaves…