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  • A meat stall at a Christmas market in Frankfurt

    The planetary health diet
    People mustn’t feel meat is being taken from them

    A dozen hospitals in Berlin serve up a menu rich in plants and light in animals – and say they have had few complaints
  • A wolfdog under trees in the snow

    ‘We’d like to shoot them all’
    Growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

  • People in Central Park, New York

    Weatherwatch
    Sinking US cities increase risk of flooding from rising sea levels

  • Emissions from an oil refinery

    Fossil fuels
    Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals

  • Thames Water repair site in central London.

    Water industry
    Thames Water investors pull plug on £500m of funding amid standoff with regulator

  • Cherry blossom.

    Country diary
    A Japanese painting outside a Shrewsbury nightclub

  • Rivers
    Water companies in England face outrage over record sewage discharges

  • England’s sewage crisis
    How polluted is your local river and which regions are worst hit?

  • Pass notes
    Is it a hedgehog – or a hat bobble? It can be surprisingly difficult to tell the difference

  • ‘Everybody has a breaking point’
    How the climate crisis affects our brains

  • Extreme heat
    Summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures

  • Wildlife
    Northumberland’s Farne Islands reopen to visitors after bird flu outbreak

  • Yorkshire
    Estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listing

  • Deforestation
    Study of UK’s top bamboo loo rolls shows some are made from other woods

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Spotlight

  • Using a photo of the right side eyepatch our team was able to confirm that T109A3, a 14 year old female Bigg's killer whale was the individual which stranded alive this morning and subsequently drown as the tide came in, despite the heroic efforts of Nuu-chah-nulth and Zeballos residents to roll her back to an upright position. In an effort to remain close to its Mum, her 2 year old T109A3A, navigated the shallows and slipped into the lagoon behind her at high slack where it began to call out repeatedly. It may find its own way out but will likely need some coaxing, as killer whales often do in such situations. Our team has remained on site to document and assist with further efforts by DFO. Any support provided through baycetology.org is much appreciated. Images and video acquired under marine mammal research license #42.

    ‘Being so helpless is hard to describe’: can rescuers win the race against time to save an orphaned orca?

  • A white man is seen from the back, blurry in the foreground, wearing a black jacket, baseball hat and glasses, as he surveys a wash between two stands of twos, with damaged homes, vehicles and land caked in mud.

    A Kentucky mining disaster killed dozens and destroyed homes. Will a lawsuit bring change?

    • Katy Slininger

      The Connecticut residents holding a rent strike amid lead poisoning crisis

    • An azure lake sourrounded by steep mountains with snow-capped peaks in the background

      Andean alarm: climate crisis increases fears of glacial lake flood in Peru

    • A Sea Shepherd thermal drone monitors the Vaquita Refuge in the Sea of Cortez, in an ongoing operation to defend the world’s most endangered marine mammal from illegal fishing. 
Photo Credit: Eli Hausman, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
If you need more context, you could add that the drone was launched from one of our sentry ships, The Seahorse, which is present in the Vaquita Refuge nearly 24/7 with the cooperation of the Mexican Government.

      Eyes in the sky: why drones are ‘beyond effective’ for animal rights campaigners around the world

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The Winterkeeper

Steven Fuller has lived and worked at Yellowstone national park for the past 50 years, but now faces an uncertain future as the climate crisis intensifies

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Steven Fuller

Opinion

  • Minister for Environment Tanya Plibersek during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, October 19, 2023. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    The Albanese government is drifting from its environmental commitments – it’s time for transparency and good faith

    Jack Pascoe
  • Zoe Williams

    Why is the right at war with cyclists? We’re not ‘wokerati’ – we’re just trying to get around

    Zoe Williams
  • Greg Jericho

    Blaming John Howard is easy, but his government helped shape the world we live in – now and for future generations

    Greg Jericho
  • Paul Karp

    Labor dissent sees Plibersek’s veto on offshore gas project rules restored

    Paul Karp
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  • Adélie penguins in Antarctica

    ‘Cautious optimism’ as penguins test positive for bird flu but show no symptoms

  • Prof Andrew Cunningham inside a lab at London Zoo wearing a lab coat and glasses

    I discovered why seemingly healthy amphibians were being wiped out

    The mass deaths were puzzling scientists around the world – there were no signs of viruses or parasites. Then we looked closely at their skin
  • Composite picture of a photo of a man using a scalpel to pick at a huge crocodile-like skull, and a drawing of  adolphin in brown water seizing prey

    Scientists find skull of enormous ancient dolphin in Amazon

    Fossil of giant river dolphin found in Peru, whose closest living relation is in South Asia, gives clues to future extinction threats
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  • Three women lie with arms outstretched and eyes closed in floaty blue and indigo dresses

    Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana do underwater photoshoot for ocean conservation charity

  • A trawler lowers its nets to catch demersal fish

    ‘Hoovered’ up from the deep: 33,000 hours of seabed trawling revealed in protected UK waters

    • The San José was traveling to Europe with treasures to fund the war of the Spanish succession when it was sunk by the British off the coast of Colombia.

      ‘Holy grail of shipwrecks’: recovery of 18th-century Spanish ship could begin in April

    • Fish swim amidst pink coral in the Lophelia Reef, located in the Finlayson Channel of the British Columbia coast, about 500 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, in an undated handout photo. It started with a tip from the local First Nation of a "bump on the sea floor" where the fish liked to be and led to the discovery of Canada's only known coral live coral reef.

      Canada moves to protect coral reef that scientists say ‘shouldn’t exist’

    • Close up of a Ryukyuan pygmy squid (Idiosepius kijimuna) attached to a blade of seagrass

      Discovered in the deep: tiny ‘sucker-bum squid’ with martial arts moves

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  • Food and Agriculture Organization logo on board with blurred people moving in front of it

    ‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming in climate change

  • herd of cows

    Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored

  • An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil

    Top grain traders ‘helped scupper’ ban on soya from deforested land

  • Pig culling at a farm in Lombardy, northern Italy, last week.

    Italy culls tens of thousands of pigs to contain African swine fever

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Multimedia

  • Graceful turn – East Rift Valley, Kenya: winner of black and white category

    From a graceful turn to a dangerous toy: the World Nature Photography awards 2024 – in pictures

  • Icebergs manifest in seven distinct types, categorized as detached from glaciers, floating, or grounded. These types exhibit diverse characteristics, including pointed tops, domes, erosion patterns, pooling, inclination, plate-like formations, and block shapes.

    Changes in Antarctica’s glaciers and ice sheets: in pictures

    Turkey’s eighth national Antarctic science expedition is seeking answers to questions about the future of the world with 22 different projects on the continent. Anadolu Agency’s photojournalist Sebnem Coskun is documenting the expedition’s scientific research, climate change impacts and life in the region to share the findings with the world.
    The expedition involves uncovering concealed data within the ice, gathered from years of research on crucial topics like sea ice and glacier dynamics.
  • A Bolivian conservation programme has identified at least 60 'Paddington' bears in areas where they had not been spotted before

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    'Paddington' bears spotted in Bolivian forest raise hopes for species' survival – video

    A Bolivian conservation programme has identified at least 60 'Paddington' bears in areas where they had not been spotted before
  • Grey crowned crane, at the Bird Gardens Scotland, UK.

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a majestic crane, a clumsy owlet and sleepy seals

  • The baby hippo will stay with its mother for a couple of months until it is ready to venture into an outdoor enclosure

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    Endangered pygmy hippo born at Athens zoo – video

  • Australian Agribusiness Group says its teams have resolved to increase efforts ‘on the protection of the local animal population’ and that they ‘are operating well beyond what is considered best practice for wildlife management’

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    Video shows koalas clinging to trees as gum trees cut down on Kangaroo Island – video

  • Galapagos land turtles in the Galapagos National Park in Santa Cruz island, Ecuador

    Galapagos biodiversity under threat – in pictures

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