Country diary: This is how bad the heatwave has got for us arable farmers – I’m going on holiday Brigg, Lincolnshire: I should be busy, but the boom-bust climate has upset all my usual routines The Guardian - UK · Aug 13
Too smart to eat? Why octopus farms are such a slippery problem As a controversial Spanish plan for sustainable meat on an industrial scale is dropped, it has revived the ethical debate over farming these intelligent wild animals The Guardian - UK · Aug 13
India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal production Rise in new mine proposals, mainly in states of Odisha and Jharkhand, comes despite plateau in global demand The Guardian - UK · Aug 13
Permian Basin Community Seeks Fix for Radium in Its Drinking Water Utilities serving thousands of Texans exceed legal limits for radium. Texas Observer · Aug 12
Too many holes! Why badgers are digging up Britain’s lovingly maintained golf courses Thanks to the drought, these black-and-white beauties are struggling to catch worms in the rock-hard earth. But there’s still good foraging on well-watered fairways and greens The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
From grey water to cool spaces: 10 climate crisis policies Britain needs right now Rejecting North Sea drilling licences and protecting nature are just some measures Andy Burnham must implement to ready country The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
Humpbacks return to Rio: the whales are back from the brink of extinction – but will tourism help or hinder? The gigantic aquatic acrobats are exciting Brazil’s tourists as numbers recover from whaling. But some marine biologists question how booming tourism and conservation can coexist The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
‘Like an alien invasion’: the neon flying squid that can fly in formation above the ocean Smart, sociable squid use funnel-like organ to force water to jet propel themselves along in and out of sea The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
Invertebrate of the year 2026: vote for your favourite We’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
UK heatwave: Burnham considers ban on disposable barbecues to prevent wildfires – as it happened Prime minister suggests possible measure as he prepares to chair emergency Cobra meeting in response to extreme heat The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
‘It’s been a revelation’: how heat pumps can cool your home as temperatures soar It might seem an unlikely way to stop overheating, but many owners have found the tech a lifeline in hot weather The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
Signs of a house sparrow comeback in the UK after decades of decline Populations starting to stabilise but much still needs to be done to reverse loss of 30m that almost led to species vanishing The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
Country diary: One flower here is thriving, defying the drought Frome, Somerset: While other plants are withering or skeletal, tansy is growing in great profusion, and it rewards close observation The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
The Guardian - AU · Aug 11 Male redback spiders invite cannibalism through a ‘self-sacrificial somersault’ during sex – but why? New research sheds light on the genetic basis of the venomous arachnid’s ‘weird mating behaviour’
AAP · Aug 11 Big polluters make small cuts under climate scheme Australia's biggest polluters have reduced emissions by less than one per cent in two years and an environmental group is calling for reforms.
Texas Observer · Aug 11 Who Pays for the High-Powered Grid that Data Centers Need? Texas would make large AI hyperscalers pay for the wires that connect them. Whether they must also pay directly for the broader grid work needed to serve them is still an open question.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11 As heatwaves hit Britain, spare a thought for farm animals Letters: Claire Bass says animal welfare is a blind spot for the government. Plus, Chris Phillipson on the libraries operating as ‘cool spaces’, Mick Beeby on lido restoration, and Dr Julian McDonough on NHS pressures
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11 Despite the drought, don’t give up on our native plants Letters: Martin Sullivan and Lorraine Du Feu respond to a recent letter suggesting that we should focus on planting non-native species that can tolerate extreme heat
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11 Droughts were predicted decades ago – yet water companies did nothing Letters: Water boards in the south of England should have paid attention to scientific models and built reservoirs, writes Steve Lindsay, while Martin Gray suggests turning salt water into drinking water is the answer
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11 ‘I feel motherly towards them’: the nature reserve manager sharing her office with a wasp nest Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was to get rid of the wasps entering her converted shipping container in Norfolk. Now she enjoys their constant hum
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11 ‘Living fossil’: the blue-blood arthropod that has changed little in 445m years Tenacious and confounding, the horseshoe crab pre-dates dinosaurs and has copper-based blood vital to vaccine safety
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11 The return of the caspian tiger: how a species feared extinct has come back to Kazakhstan The wild capture and release of a female big cat into a nature reserve is the first step towards reintroducing a population that hasn’t been seen for 70 years
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11 Summer 2026 on course to be UK’s hottest on record, says Met Office – as it happened Prediction comes amid warning of ‘extreme heat’ this week with temperatures of 38C possible
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11 ‘Subsidies for fossil fuels ... are pouring fuel on the fire’: your questions on fossil fuel profits and the climate crisis answered Reporters Jillian Ambrose and Damian Carrington discussed their story on oil firms’ profits amid the war in Iran and the climate crisis and answered your related questions