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Padley Gorge, Derbyshire: In among the fresh lime-green oak leaves is a spotted flycatcher. I watch for movement, but there is none – yet

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Global methane emissions still far above what countries report, IEA warns

The fossil fuel industry released more than 120 million tonnes of methane in 2024, keeping emissions close to record highs, the International Energy Agency said this week. The level has barely changed since 2019, despite global pledges to cut this powerful greenhouse gas.

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Plastics in everyday objects may disrupt sleep in same way as caffeine, study finds

Findings show for first time how plastic chemicals throw off the body’s internal clock by up to 17 minutes

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Weather tracker: Thunderstorms bring rain and hail to parts of the Balkans

Hot start to May gives way to significant rainfall, with egg-sized hailstones reportedly hitting Slavonski Brod in Croatia

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Plan for windfarm in German ‘fairytale forest’ stokes green energy culture war

Far right accused of misinformation over turbines at Reinhardswald, which has left local people divided

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Midsummer butterflies spotted early in Britain after sunny spring

Scientists fear early emerging insects may fall out of sync with pathogens, predators or availability of food

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European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming

Experts found 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils had been degraded, with about 40% similarly damaged in the UK

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Country diary: Ancient art to make the imagination soar

Knowth, County Meath, Ireland: In among the summer-green fields here is the great mound, constructed by neolithic people with, perhaps, one eye to the sky

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Scientists find ‘mutant’ gene behind foul-smelling species of wild ginger

Small genetic changes in enzyme that prevents bad breath in humans lead to sulphurous scent in some asarum

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‘Astonishing journeys’: online tool tracking migratory animals highlights challenge of protecting them

The University of Queensland system is intended to give policymakers idea of how species traverse the oceans and what it will take to save them

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Expedition braves Antarctic for data on melting glacier

Antarctic expeditioners have returned to Australia with intel about potentially new species and a rapidly melting glacier, plus 500,000-year-old sediment.

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Country diary: In praise of the ‘low-value’ sycamore tree

Weardale, North Pennines: This one is showing its worth, teeming with aphids, ready to kickstart a vast and far-reaching food web

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Rare New Zealand snail filmed laying egg via its neck for first time

Mount Augustus snail, among largest in world, can live for decades and eats slugs and earthworms

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Elk could return to UK after 3,000 years in rewilding project

First stage of initiative will introduce ‘keystone’ species to beaver enclosures in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire

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Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say

Environment Agency recommends rationing water as UK sees driest start to spring in 69 years

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‘A cemetery of trees’: vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco

Jaguars, giant armadillos and ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world

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Real-world geoengineering experiments revealed by UK agency

Trials will test ways to block sunlight and slow climate crisis that threatens to trigger catastrophic tipping points

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‘It’s like putting a whale in a blender’: the rise of deadly ship collisions in Chile

On average, five fatal whale strikes occur in the country’s waters each year, the highest in the world – and just a fraction of the total number killed, say researchers

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Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests

Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes

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Abandoned infrastructure one of the biggest polluters in the world – report

Emissions from abandoned coalmines, oil and gas wells globally are larger than any single country except China, the US and Russia

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Specieswatch: new bee species in the UK a rare gain in a changing climate

Osmia cornuta is a solitary bee spreading rapidly in the south of England, which was once too cold for it

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UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development

Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building

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Country diary: I can hear the badgers, I can smell the badgers – but where are they?

Inkpen, Berkshire: Settled against one my favourite oaks, the birdsong falls away and the subterranean bumps and noises begin

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England faces drought this summer as reservoir water levels dwindle

Exclusive: Government and water firms preparing for possible shortages as dry weather is expected to continue

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Plastics industry pushed ‘advanced recycling’ despite knowing problems – report

Producers promoted chemical recycling – processes used to break plastics into constituent molecules – but knew of limitations

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