‘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

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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

Victoria to get first publicly owned windfarm with 33-turbine Latrobe valley project

Pink platypus spotted in Gippsland far from a monochrome monotreme

Yellowstone hot spring spews forth spectacular muddy plumes

Trump officials halt offshore wind-farm projects over ‘national security risks’

Muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone national park – video

Fatberg weighing 100 tonnes discovered in east London sewer

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Man describes narrow escape after boats pulled into giant hole on Shropshire canal

‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions – but experts sceptical

US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs

Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward

Tories call EHRC chair’s comments a ‘disgrace’ after she warns ‘demonisation of migrants’ bad for UK – politics live

2025 is ‘year of the octopus’ as record numbers spotted off England’s south coast

Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be outlawed in England

Forget elf on the shelf – these Aussie birds are perfect for the festive season | Jess Harwood

‘Miracle’ of Zealandia: chick is born to rare takahē pair thought to be infertile

Sea change: the drive to restore millions of oysters on the Norfolk coast

UK supermarkets turn to European turkeys as avian flu hits supply

‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis

This year’s Christmas could be Britain’s greenest yet, energy operator says

When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby | George Monbiot

Trump’s EPA wants to weaken formaldehyde protections – this is what it could mean

Revealed: how Toyota uses retro-style games and prizes to urge US workers to lobby politicians

Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide

Weather tracker: Early snowfall in New York and a storm ruins Christmas lights in Spain

‘I can’t think of a place more pristine’: 133,000 hectares of Chilean Patagonia preserved after local fundraising

Week in wildlife: honeymooning owls, an otter on the razz and a magical frog

UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’

They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests

‘You learn tricks to reduce it’: the smart bins measuring food waste in South Korea

‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists

Rainfall creates crimson spectacle at beach on Iran’s Hormuz Island

Rain transforms Iranian beach into striking red spectacle – video

Guggenheim scraps Basque Country expansion plan after local protests