The week in wildlife – in pictures

A herd of milu deer on a wetland near the Dafeng Milu national nature reserve in…

Greta Thunberg says new film captures her ‘shy, nerdy’ personality – video

Play Video 1:53 Greta Thunberg praised the film I Am Greta, presented at the 2020 Venice…

HS2 protesters glue themselves to DfT as construction begins

Anti-HS2 protesters have sprayed fake blood over the entrance to the Department for Transport and glued…

Greta Thunberg: don’t dump climate crisis on children to fix

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has called for more action to be taken to address the…

‘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…