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I’m often told that degrowth, the planned downscaling of production and consumption to reduce the pressure on Earth’s ecosystems, is a tough sell. But a 36-year-old associate professor at Tokyo University has made a name for himself arguing that “degrowth communism” could halt the escalating climate emergency.

Do your bit to celebrate World Wildlife Day. By Hannah Stephenson.

Spawning sites in east and south-west will need unusually wet spring for tadpoles to survive

Wolsingham, Weardale: The cock bird, an operatic tenor in immaculate evening dress, delivered a avian aria that I could hear above the tumult of the river

Leaf-tailed geckos are an "ancient group of Australian geckos", once widespread, but constrained as rain forest contracted across the country.

California Chinook salmon populations have fallen to their lowest levels in years, according to new estimates released by state and federal scientists — a decline that could trigger a shutdown of the commercial and recreational fishing season along the coast.

Radha Mitchell spoke to Salon about her aquatic "Blueback" costar, doing her own diving and a dream about a dolphin

Researchers solve puzzle of how animal generates enough air flow 1,000 metres under water, where pressure is 100 times that at surface

Letter: Peggy Seeger on a campaign to save four acres of biodiverse meadows in Oxford

‘A finding like this really highlights that even in a run-of-the-mill situation, there are still a tremendous number of discoveries to make about insects’

About 25 million kilometres of new roads are expected to be built around the world by 2050. Along with power lines and railways, roads cut through the landscape everywhere, disrupting ecosystems. This linear infrastructure prevents animals from moving safely around their habitat. It also reduces access to the resources they…