State government and Nature Conservancy jointly purchase Vergemont station, which contains habitat for endangered night parrots Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter Join the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community A Queensland outback cattle
El Niño weather phenomenon depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants Ecuador has begun to ration electricity in the country’s main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants that
The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by 2030 Greece has become the first country in Europe to announce a ban on bottom trawling in all of its national marine parks and protected areas. The country
The challenge for a resource-rich, medium-sized economy such as Australia is to identify the right green industries to focus on, while minimising the risks to taxpayers Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast It’s taken a while to get here but
Hybrids outsold pure electrics in the past three quarters, according to new figures, while petrol and diesel sales fell 8% Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Australians are choosing
Minnesota’s Lower Sioux Indian Community is pioneering green building with its fully integrated hempcrete facility – a first in the country When Earl Pendleton first heard about building houses out of hemp more than a decade ago, it seemed like a far-fetched idea. To start, it
As the soundscape of the natural world began to disappear over 30 years, one man was listening and recording it all Read more: World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts The tale starts 30 years ago, when Bernie Krause made his first audio clip
Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists Read more: No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: how a haven for nature fell silent Sounds of the natural world are rapidly falling
The 2013 documentary Blackfish turned orca trainers into pariahs in the US. Now some are hitting it big in China Some people spend a long time deciding what they want to do in life. Hazel McBride feels lucky that she’s always known. As a child in Scotland, she watched a VHS
Heavy rain likely to cause low yields in Britain and other parts of Europe, with drought in Morocco hitting imports Which UK foods are at risk? The UK faces food shortages and price rises as extreme weather linked to climate breakdown causes low yields on farms locally and
Many products consumed by Britons could be hit by floods and droughts driven by climate crisis UK facing food shortages and price rises after extreme weather From floods to droughts, extreme weather driven by human-caused global heating has become the new normal, causing havoc
Seven months after an El Niño associated with hotter and drier weather got under way, conditions have returned to neutral Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Bureau of Meteorology
Tanya Plibersek says two new agencies will be established but a commitment to rewrite national environment laws has been pushed back Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has further delayed a commitment to rewrite
Scientists have recorded widespread bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as global heating creates a fourth planet-wide bleaching event. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch, 54% of ocean waters containing coral reefs have been
Supreme court ruling left more than 90% of state’s surface waters with no pollution protections, since they don’t run continuously New Mexico’s rivers, which include the Rio Grande, Gila, San Juan and Pecos, are America’s most threatened waterways, according to a new report.
What can sound tell us about nature loss? Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about her visit to Monks Wood in Cambridgeshire, where ecologist Richard Broughton has witnessed the decline of the marsh tit population over 22 years, and has heard