‘It’s going to be our way now’: the guerrilla rewilder shaking up British farming

I am sleeping in a shepherd’s hut 30 metres from a dozen wildcats. It’s an unusual…

Moths: Britain’s under-threat nocturnal treasures – in pictures

Hebrew character Moths, though sometimes overlooked in favour of butterflies, are more numerous and more varied.…

Country diary: strewn corpses point to an eight-legged killer

Spider season is upon us. Cross spiders have strung sticky spirals of silken thread between shrubs…

Under the cloak of Covid, the government is rushing ill-considered changes to Australia’s environment laws | Geoff Cousins

What a cruel irony it is that just when our prime minister is bemoaning the fact…

Higher price of electric cars a concern for more than half of UK consumers

Expensive prices for electric cars could hold back the UK’s transition from fossil fuel vehicles, the…

Pelosi and Mnuchin agree on plan to avoid government shutdown

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | Patrick Semansky/AP Photo Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin…

Burning bush, melting Arctic, a deadly virus: nobody said the end times would be boring | John Birmingham

For one brief shining moment it seemed humanity’s inability to imagine much beyond our lived experience…

Australia’s environment minister orders investigation into export of hundreds of endangered parrots

The environment minister, Sussan Ley, has appointed an auditor to investigate her own department over the…

New Zealand suspends live animal exports after ship sinks

Gulf Livestock 1, carrying more than 40 crew members and nearly 6,000 cattle, foundered off coast…

Senate Dems press Mnuchin to sanction Russia for 2020 election interference

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. | Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images Top Democratic senators are calling on the Trump…