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Country diary: There’s a new tenant in my rickety old greenhouse

Crook, County Durham: In among the dead leaves and stacks of clay flower pots is a wren, in the relative warm of its winter roost

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EU legislation intended to fight deforestation has been effectively ‘dismantled’

Law’s original author points to removal of obligations for downstream traders to verify origin of commodities

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‘People are wrestling with the burden’: Japan pivots to focus on nuclear power ‘maximisation’ alongside renewables

Post-Fukushima nuclear closures of dozens of reactors forced the country to rely heavily on imported fossil fuels

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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.

The Guardian - US

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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