How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’

It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope | Nina Lakhani

From inflation to infighting, the six factors that will shape Australian politics in 2026

Seven environmental wins across the US in 2025 despite Trump-era reversals

A polycrisis has shattered our world this year. But with care, we can put it back together | Elif Shafak

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‘They didn’t de-extinct anything’: can Colossal’s genetically engineered animals ever be the real thing?

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Curb the cod, park the prawns: top chefs on how to swap out the ‘big five’ seafood

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‘You could see bones’: Families’ anguish over coastal erosion threat to Norfolk graves

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EU legislation intended to fight deforestation has been effectively ‘dismantled’

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California snowpack gets a boost from series of December downpours

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Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recorded

UK’s warmest spring on record led to rise in songbirds breeding, data shows

‘Zack is a phenomenal leader’: Siân Berry on the Green party’s next steps as membership doubles

Young Atlantic salmon seen in three English rivers for first time in a decade

‘There is a crack in everything’: capturing the dark of winter – in pictures

Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first

Queensland to continue to allow farmers to shoot flying foxes after revoking ban on controversial practice

From ‘global cooling’ to ‘beautiful coal’: Trump’s startling climate claims of 2025

‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife

The hill I will die on: Pigeons are working-class heroes and deserve some respect | Toussaint Douglass

The mystery of flight MH370: will a new search find the missing airliner after more than a decade?

London Eye architect proposes 14-mile tidal power station off Somerset coast

A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot

‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?

Call for citizen scientists to monitor threatened turtle species on NSW beaches

The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather | Editorial

Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing

US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims

Living on the edge: what young people in England told us about life on the coast

Year in wildlife – in pictures

First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west

Sustainable aviation fuel take-up in UK unlikely to hit 2025 target, data suggests

Feeling burnt out? A bush blessing for the end of the year | Jess Harwood

There’s an itsy-bitsy fear I want to overcome. I will never be a fan, but can I at least be Normal about spiders? | Rebecca Shaw

‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers

‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor

UK electric car charger rollout slows amid worries over EV switch

Wild animals are great gift givers – and there’s one present in particular I’d love to receive for Christmas | Helen Pilcher

Plant ‘tredges’ to boost England’s tree cover, gardeners urged

North Carolina Christmas tree farmers are optimistic after Hurricane Helene

U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers ‘snuck out’ to avoid scrutiny, say Tories

Barracuda, grouper, tuna – and seaweed: Madagascar’s fishers forced to find new ways to survive

Crayfish, weevils and fungi released in UK to tackle invasive species such as Japanese knotweed

The Guardian view on animal welfare: a timely reminder that cruelty is wrong | Editorial

Shropshire canal breach caused by collapse of artificial embankment

Ministers raise inheritance tax threshold for farms after backlash

Deputy leader Lucy Powell says Labour must ‘stick to manifesto’ over EU customs union, in implicit rebuke to Streeting – as it happened

Something gnawed your oak tree? Sink hole in your road? How Zurich’s beaver hotline is reassuring residents

Forecasters say 2025 ‘more likely than not’ to be UK’s hottest year on record