Covid-19 shows factory food production is dangerous for animals and humans alike | Troy Vettese and Alex Blanchette

To anyone who has breathed country air thick with aerosolised manure or learned how the global…

‘Ghost hedgehogs’ on Dorset roads highlight animals’ plight

“Ghost hedgehogs” are starting to appear on roadsides in Dorset to highlight the plight of hedgehogs…

Country diary: sleeping spoonbills refuse to be disturbed

Clouds rise above the line of tall trees and stretch out to sea. Below my feet,…

Badger cull extended in England with more than 60,000 in line of fire

The government’s badger cull is being expanded to 11 new areas of England including parts of…

An invisible enemy: the battle to save black-footed ferrets from the plague

Every year, from August to November, Travis Livieri becomes nocturnal. The field biologist goes out in…

Aerobatic display over the lake: Country diary, 8 September 1945

Penrith, September 3 There are few entertainments in country life to surpass sitting under the wooded…

Country diary: there’s a telltale musky smell beneath the plum tree

The last of the Victoria plums are rotting on the ground. I step around them, avoiding…

Ben Jennings: fear of a blue planet – cartoon

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Rep. Demings slams Trump on racial equity training, protests

Demings slammed Trump for “throwing fire” at protests, agreeing with a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll that…

Extinction Rebellion calls move to class it as organised crime group ‘ridiculous’

Extinction Rebellion has described government moves to treat the climate crisis protest movement as an organised…