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Marine climate projects might do more harm than good

Potential environmental damage from a growing number of marine climate projects should be scrutinised more carefully before approval, a study says.

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Industrial chicken farms are trashing Britain’s rivers – and planning reforms could make things worse

Once voted the UK’s favourite river, the River Wye flows from the Welsh mountains to the Severn estuary – 150 miles through an officially recognised “national landscape”. But this idyllic picture is changing, as the river is gradually choked by waste from industrial chicken farming.

The Conversation

‘Doom loops’ are accelerating climate change – but we can break them

Vicious cycles are accelerating climate change. One is happening at the north pole, where rising temperatures caused by record levels of fossil fuel combustion are melting more and more sea ice.

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Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating – new research

El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the global climate. Every few years, the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean seesaws between warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) phases. This reshuffles rainfall patterns, unleashing floods, droughts and storms thousands of miles from…

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Plan for Norfolk megafarm rejected by councillors over environmental concerns

Application, submitted by Cranswick, would have created of the largest industrial poultry and pig units in Europe

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Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks

Energy Transfer, a top backer of US president, has received requests to power even more energy-guzzling data centers

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Imagining what the world could look like without fossil fuels spurs people to action

Human activity has already warmed the planet by more than one degree Celsius, fuelling forest fires, exacerbating floods, super-powering storms and increasing the frequency of deadly heat waves.

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Top genome scientists to map DNA sequence of invertebrate winner 2025

Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life team say genomes offer invaluable insight into how species will fare under climate crisis

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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

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Good news, beach lovers: our research found 39% less plastic waste around Australian coastal cities than a decade ago

Picture this: you’re lounging on a beautiful beach, soaking up the sun and listening to the soothing sound of the waves. You run your hands through the warm sand, only to find a cigarette butt. Gross, right?

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What Donald Trump’s dramatic US trade war means for global climate action

US President Donald Trump’s new trade war will not only send shockwaves through the global economy – it also upsets efforts to tackle the urgent issue of climate change.

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Country diary: They look like tiny green toenails. So why the name ‘maidenhair’ spleenwort?

Bridport, Dorset: The common fern’s name was inspired by another phase of its life cycle, when fronds die off and spindly threads of stem remain in luxuriant, wiry tufts

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Big, biodiverse and beautiful: can Romania’s centuries-old giant haystacks survive modern farming?

Traditional methods benefit hundreds of species but as new agricultural techniques take over, the distinctive haystacks mark a vanishing way of life

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‘Same shit, different year’: Australia records hottest 12 months and warmest March on record

ANU climate scientist says ‘everyone is getting fatigued these records keep falling – it’s now incredibly predictable’

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Scientists worked with Warlpiri to track down bilby poo – and uncover clues to help conserve these iconic animals

The greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) is one of Australia’s most iconic yet at-risk animals — and the last surviving bilby species. Once found across 70% of Australia, its range has contracted by more than 80% since European colonisation.

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Invisible losses: thousands of plant species are missing from places they could thrive – and humans are the reason

If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you’re seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and grasses growing in their natural habitat.

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US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive

Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that air conditioning market could grow by 41%

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Flies are masters of migration – it’s about time they got some credit

As I sprinted across the flower-rich meadow on the eastern coast of Cyprus, I could barely see my car. The air was full of tiny black dots, pelting like bullets past me. I hauled open the car door and breathed a sigh of relief once inside. I was surrounded by…

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Five ways to improve net zero action – our new research highlights lessons from the past

The current UK government and its recent predecessors have shown a reluctance to encourage and enable lifestyle changes that reduce our collective demand for energy.

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Environment secretary’s appeal against Yorkshire river pollution ruling fails

Appeal court finds in favour of anglers who said plans to clean up river were so vague as to be totally ineffectual

The Guardian - UK

Turtle doves to be shot for sport again across Europe as EU lifts hunting ban

Ban in place since 2021 has increased numbers of globally vulnerable pigeon species that is close to extinction in UK

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Invertebrate of the year 2025: vote for your favourite

Since February we’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose

The Guardian - UK

More than beautiful: the beloved monarch butterfly is one of the world’s great migrators

The hardy travellers can fly for 3,000 miles from the north-east US and Canada to roost in their millions in Mexico

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Last summer was second worst for common UK butterflies since 1976

More than half of Britain’s 59 native species are in long-term decline, UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme finds

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Specieswatch: Sardines doing well around UK, but struggling in warmer waters

Scientists say they are ingesting more microplastics in Mediterranean as the plankton they feed on struggle to survive in warming waters

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