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France delays plastic cup ban by four years as alternatives fall short

France has postponed a ban on throwaway plastic cups by four years, pushing the start date to 2030 after the government said alternatives were not ready for widespread use.

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UK’s warmest spring on record led to rise in songbirds breeding, data shows

Dry and warm 2025 spring gave glimmer of hope for threatened wild birds but many remain in long-term decline

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Young Atlantic salmon seen in three English rivers for first time in a decade

Species that is critically endangered in Britain is spotted in Mersey, Bollin and Goyt rivers in north-west

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Country diary: Meet Houdini, the three-legged hedgehog who’s moved in for winter

Hove, East Sussex: I’ve had to create a halfway house for him, between the rescue centre and the wild. Only, he’s named after an escapologist for a reason

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Tropical Cyclone Hayley bears down on Derby in WA as man dies in north Queensland floods

Category-two system brings destructive winds, heavy rain and potential for flash flooding after making landfall on Tuesday night

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Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’

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Queensland to continue to allow farmers to shoot flying foxes after revoking ban on controversial practice

Conservationists and scientists criticise state for backtracking and say alternative non-lethal methods such as netting are more effective

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Weather tracker: Polar wind set to end warmth in US south and midwest

Spring-like weather experienced by many Americans to end, while heavy snow in Japan brings deadly conditions

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Country diary: A rare giant in the quiet of the wood

Old Sulehay Forest, Northamptonshire: Distant church bells are about all I can hear as I stand below a 500-year-old small-leaved lime – a tree that may be making an unlikely comeback

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The mystery of flight MH370: will a new search find the missing airliner after more than a decade?

In 2014 the Malaysian Airlines jet vanished over the Indian Ocean. Now the team that located Shackleton’s Endurance is looking again with the latest undersea robots

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Heat, drought and fire: how extreme weather pushed nature to its limits in 2025

National Trust says these are ‘alarm signals we cannot ignore’ as climate breakdown puts pressure on wildlife

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Rain, fire risk and a cyclone: flood alerts in Queensland’s north as wild weather forecast across Australia

Warnings of extreme fire danger in SA regions, while Tropical Cyclone Hayley tracks towards WA

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Australia makes list of 2025's costliest climate events

From catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles to devastating floods in Asia, it's been a tough year of climate extremes and their economic burdens.

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‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app

Merlin has been trained to identify the songs of more than 1,300 bird species around the world

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London Eye architect proposes 14-mile tidal power station off Somerset coast

West Somerset Lagoon would harness renewable energy for UK’s AI boom – and create ‘iconic’ arc around Bristol Channel

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Young country diary: Our local river is clean again – and the birds are back too

River Wandle, south London: I can see the water from my bedroom window, the pollution has gone and it’s bursting with life

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Young country diary: Other kids love birds and insects – I love moss

Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire: I couldn’t believe how much moss there was covering the rocks, the trees, the ground – everything

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‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?

With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more

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Push to enshrine Pacific gender lens on COP31 agenda

Pacific women are facing compounding pressures from climate change-fuelled droughts and floods, sparking calls for more gender-specific adaptation resources.

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Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing

These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close

The Guardian - AU

Four species, 160 days, 50,000 images: meet the photographer dedicated to showing the lovable side of flying foxes

Doug Gimesy’s extreme close-ups of ‘sky puppies’ are designed to trigger an emotional response that endears people to the ‘wrongly vilified’ mammals

The Guardian - UK

From gifts that last to sustainable swaps, how we’re encouraging more thoughtful spending

In this week’s newsletter: as we head into 2026, we’ll be testing products to help you cut waste and lighten your load on the planet

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Living on the edge: what young people in England told us about life on the coast

As part of the Guardian’s Against the tide series, readers aged 18 to 30 share what they love about living in their coastal town, the challenges and why they often choose to leave

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First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west

Mersey Valley Way takes in Manchester and Stockport on its 13-mile route with other walks to be identified in 2026

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Staying at home could leave you exposed to indoor air pollution, study reveals

Secondhand tobacco smoke and routine tasks such as operating the stove shown to be biggest emitters of indoor pollution in UK homes

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