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Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island

Can hope save the planet? An endangered parrot that is beating the odds can help us find out | Helen Pilcher

As monarch butterflies migrate for the fall, meet the Chicago woman trying to protect them

July 2026 was worst on record for wildfires in England, data shows

Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing

Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot

Next UK banknotes to feature barn owls, bumblebees, puffins and hedgehogs

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

Indonesia accused of ‘gross negligence’ in wildfires lawsuit as haze tests region

Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say

Bendy elm still standing against all odds crowned UK tree of the year

French wine industry facing historic low harvest after extreme summer heat

World’s largest penguin colony suffers ‘enormous population crash’

‘Like an earthquake’: El Niño is coming for California – is the state ready?

South West Water owner taps investors to fix infrastructure after sewage spills

Overseas, Albanese sees ‘the very definition of climate injustice’ – but at home, he still wants coal

Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim jolt for climate campaigners

Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company

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

Q&A: ‘Are the warnings all hype?’ – our environment writers answered your El Niño questions

‘Lawyers should be running to courts’ to stop coal approvals after landmark ruling, NSW MP says

Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action

Wanted: children to rear harvest mice at home for wild release in Devon

Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine

New Zealand greenhouse gas levels hit record highs threatening catastrophic glacier melts

Ikea to pilot online buyback service for secondhand furniture

Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’

Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds

Australia faces summer of extreme weather, Anthony Albanese warns at pre-Cop

🌎 Fervo flips the switch #316

Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

Snakes, bobcats, mountain lions: the secret animal world beneath the Hollywood sign

Man caught with 300 tortoises and 77 parrots bound for Malta at Sicilian port

US supreme court hears big oil’s bid to block climate damage lawsuits

Mixed start for pre-Cop as just two non-Pacific leaders accept Australian invitation to climate summit

Extreme heat warnings issued for parts of southern California

Tory plan to cut energy efficiency rule for builders will cost new home owners £1,000 a year, says thinktank – as it happened

Australia experiences second hottest September on record as El Niño and climate crisis combine

Authorities issue shark warning over whale that swam 11km upstream in Clarence River and later died

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

Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Australia and Turkey criticised for hosting UN climate conference while embracing coal

More than 1,200 Colorado students have earned a climate ‘seal’: ‘We’re the ones growing up in this world’

Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires

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

The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot

‘It’s shocking really’: Devon community tracks River Dart sewage spills

Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms

Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures