Critically endangered herb thriving on Macquarie Island after seven-year feral animal eradication program

A critically-endangered herb once thought extinct on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island has been found growing at a…

‘Magical and antiquarian’: William Arnold’s plant portraits

Lonicera periclymenum , honeysuckle Rosa canina, dog rose Jacobaea vulgaris , ragwort Oxalis stricta, yellow wood…

‘For climate protesters, we are like filth’: the German village where coal is still king

The landscape makes you think of the surface of the moon. As far as the eye…

Bid for first eco-labelled bluefin tuna raises fears for protection of ‘king of fish’

A decade ago, the highly prized “king of fish”, the bluefin tuna, was taken off menus…

Sorry, but that’s not an albino pheasant | Brief letters

I understand that a statue to honour NHS staff who have died in the pandemic is…

Finally there is real movement on Australia’s climate policy but time isn’t on our side | Anna Skarbek

“It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice.”…

Ilhan Omar says protests valid, destruction not

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). | AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said Sunday it’s…

Being black while in nature: ‘You’re an endangered species’

It was 2011 when Rue Mapp was followed by a white woman in an Oakland, California,…

McConnell and Pelosi’s next battle: How to help the 40 million unemployed

The debate over whether Congress will approve a new round of pandemic aid is over. Now…

Tunisia’s sea turtles are beating the odds as they inch towards survival

Years of marine conservation efforts throughout the Mediterranean are beginning to pay dividends in Tunisia, with…