Cooling La Nina may not save Great Barrier Reef from mass coral bleaching, experts warn

A global weather phenomenon that would typically keep ocean temperatures lower across the Great Barrier Reef…

Charmed in lockdown: garden birds by Denis Thorpe – in pictures

I’ve spent most of my working life photographing people and places. Usually on film in glorious…

If bugs escape I’m a Celebrity ‘they could cause severe problems’, says Chris Packham

Parts of the Welsh countryside could become permanently damaged if creatures used in I’m a Celebrity…

Campaigners call for UK and EU bans on plastic ‘sample’ sachets

Environmental campaigners have joined forces with politicians and business leaders in demanding urgent action to tackle…

‘Large-scale human rights violations’ taint Congo national park project

Josi Emerson, president of the Baka pygmy village of Seh in the Congolese rainforest, was working…

‘All we could do was run’: the strange story of Gerald, the turkey who terrorized a city

The turkey locked eyes with her from across the park. Like many Oaklanders, sixteen-year-old Jojo Thompson…

Country diary: a mast year for the mighty oak

The eastern entrance to Old Sulehay forest is roofed by great oaks, still canopied with autumnal…

The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields

It took just a few decades for Brazilian agriculture to transform its tropical savannah hinterlands –…

How can we stop using soya linked to deforestation?

Who uses soya and why? Nearly all soya is used by the farming sector as a…

Two polar bears come sniffing in the Arctic night: Esther Horvath’s best photograph

In the autumn of 2019, I joined an expedition to the Arctic. We set sail from…