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  • Arable farmer Jamie Burrows leans against a green tractor behind tall wheat stalks

    UK farming
    ‘Some aren’t going to make it’: how pressure on farmers threatens UK food security

    Food producers are adding their voices to the chorus of warnings about the vulnerability of British supply chains
  • Andean flamingos feeding in Salar de AtacamaAndean flamingos (Phoenicopterus andinus) feeding in Salar de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile.

    Mining
    Why a Chilean salt flat is a microcosm of the extractive frontiers of green capitalism

    In the Atacama desert, the extraction of lithium – so crucial to addressing the climate crisis – comes with escalating social and environmental costs
  • A man in khaki shirt and trousers standing in the jungle next to two chimpanzees.

    Nature heroes
    ‘I didn’t want to write about this’: the man who first saw chimps waging civil war

  • A house with its roof torn off, a tree in the foreground

    Hurricane Isaias
    Four dead as Isaias weakens to post-tropical cyclone after striking Florida panhandle

  • aerial view of downed cottonwood tree remnants on ground

    US
    200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall

  • A surfer crouches on his board inside the barrel of a large curling wave in El Salvador

    Coastlines
    Climate crisis is coming to crush many of world’s best surf breaks, study warns

  • Pupils wearing hats and holding water bottles stand in a line outdoors

    Extreme heat
    Retrofit schools and consider moving exams to beat extreme heat, says teaching union leader

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Spotlight

  • Picture By Jim Wileman - The water supply on Lundy Island, off the North Devon Coast, has been at its lowest level. Matt Scantlebury, Island Manager, at Pondsbury Pond.

    Rapid showers and no flushing toilets: drought pushes Lundy island to the brink

    A dry summer has left the Bristol Channel island critically short of water, forcing visitor caps and talk of evacuating its 28 residents
  • close-up of mosquito on person's skin

    ‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoes

  • Ken and Jill Hooper

    Still wielding a chainsaw at 85: the Australians restoring nature in retirement

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  • Young woman adjusting lighting and room temperature with smart home system. Intelligent home security system. Smart living concept.

    Myth buster: why heat pumps and solar panels are more accessible than ever

  • Young multiracial man charging his electric car, close-up.

    Smart, standard or fixed? The new era of energy tariffs, explained

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Opinion

  • Robert Reich

    double quotation markAI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them

    Robert Reich
  • Helen Pilcher

    double quotation markCan hope save the planet? An endangered parrot that is beating the odds can help us find out

    Helen Pilcher
  • George Monbiot

    double quotation markStockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe?

    George Monbiot
  • George Monbiot

    double quotation markThe expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it

    George Monbiot
  • Montage of images of the Denver nature garden.

    Tents, night-vision goggles and bear tracking kits: America’s first nature library opens

  • Baby orangutan Abu clings to its mother while rescuers check her with a medical monitor

    ‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population

  • Close up of a baby Siamese crocodile held in hands against a Buddhist monk's orange clothing.

    Saving the Siamese crocodile: Cambodia moves to protect one of the world’s last wild populations

  • Two baboons raid food out of bags next to a car on a house driveway on which more baboons are sitting.

    ‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys

  • A green mountainside of a fjord in Norway above blue water

    This is one of Norway’s most pristine fjords. So why is it being used as a dumping site for mine waste?

  • A large blunt-nosed shark with an open mouth and apparently no teeth

    To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark

  • At a herring festival in Achiltibuie, north-west Scotland, a man plays violin as a woman plays harp for seated guests.

    ‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles

  • An African penguin walks towards to camera on a sunny beach.

    Mass sardine die-off pits survival of South Africa’s penguins against fishers’ livelihoods

Multimedia

  • A common kingfisher is harassed by a wasp as it sits on a perch at the Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve near Canterbury in Kent, UK.

    Week in wildlife: a friendly seal, a furious goldcrest and ‘the swanfather’

    Gallery18
  • Image of a striped outdoor chair in a leafy backyard garden area

    From urban rooftops to working cattle farms: Australia’s best home gardens – in pictures

    Gallery25
  • Dirk Koster The different one

    Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures

    Gallery22

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