Environment news
- Climate change on track to cause major insect wipeout, scientists warn
- Students go on hunger strike to pressure Cambridge University to divest
- Princes sets 50% recycling target for plastic bottles
- UK taken to Europe’s highest court over air pollution
- Fast-track fracking plan by UK government prompts criticism
- Mysterious rise in banned ozone-destroying chemical shocks scientists
- Republican congressman explains sea-level rise: it’s rocks falling into the sea
- Water shortages to be key environmental challenge of the century, Nasa warns
- Wind power overtakes nuclear for first time in UK across a quarter
- Glyphosate shown to disrupt microbiome ‘at safe levels’, study claims
In depth
- Chilean villagers claim British appetite for avocados is draining region dry
- Leaked report warns Cambodia’s biggest dam could ‘literally kill’ Mekong river
- The UK government wants to put a price on nature – but that will destroy it
- One man’s race to capture the Rocky Mountains glaciers before they vanish
- ‘Paradise and hell’: the battle to save the forest elephant
Multimedia
- ‘Swimming into the unknown:’ Mexico’s unmapped underwater caves - in pictures
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Timor-Leste’s incredible marine life – in pictures
- GDT nature photographer of the year 2018 – in pictures
And finally ...
Australian magpies eavesdrop on other birds and can understand their calls
