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

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

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

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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

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

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