Using AI to speed up Australia’s environmental approvals risks ‘robodebt-style’ failures, scientists say

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German mayors call for night-time ban on robot lawnmowers to protect hedgehogs

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‘A surrender to special interests’: alarm as Utah shields fossil-fuel companies

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‘I just legged it’: teenage shark bite victim recalls lucky escape while surfing in South Australia

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‘I escaped death a lot of times’: one man’s lifelong work protecting gorillas and communities in Congo

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As a business founder and as a man, I regret the decades I spent confined by masculinity | Guy Singh-Watson

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Severe Tropical Cyclone Maila could hit far north Queensland three weeks after Narelle tore through

Thousands in Texas protest against border wall through national park: ‘big love for Big Bend’

Beavers thriving after being reintroduced to English wild – video

Rice’s whales existed before humans. Now Trump could make them extinct

How Trump’s Iran war could make the world more reliant on coal

Welcome to the MrBeastification of British politics: the latest trick up Nigel Farage's sleeve | Kirsty Major

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

Bilby boom: breeding trial to reintroduce species to Mallee Cliffs national park shows signs of success

Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging

New North Sea drilling would barely reduce UK gas imports at all, data shows

From early birds to emerging butterflies: UK shows signs of earliest spring on record

Sydney councils fear new datacentres could cause blackouts, block housing and affect locals’ health

EPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water

Of course we shouldn’t drill for more oil in the North Sea – we cancelled further exploitation for a reason | Bill McGuire

Week in wildlife: a meep-meep roadrunner, a new frog species and Orkney voles

Contractor that cut back 500-year-old oak in London park identified

Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals

Sex at arm’s length? Male octopuses use specialised arm to mate, scientists find

Starmer must call energy summit akin to 2008 crisis response, Labour MP says

How a lush Miami park was designed to keep flooding at bay – in pictures

Why thousands of New Yorkers swap gas for induction stoves in clean energy push: ‘It makes sense’

Thames Water ‘close to deal that would spare it new Ofwat fines until 2030’

UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying

World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

Not if, but when: how Spain’s coastal towns are preparing for tsunamis

‘Fossil-fuel imperialism’: Trump’s hankering for Iranian oil runs deep

‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists

‘Guano is far more than just droppings’: scientists uncover the secrets of bat poo in Gorongosa park

This is what a fossil-fuel shock looks like. The UK must adapt its energy system – and quickly | Chaitanya Kumar

Energy crisis: why ‘keep calm but cut down’ may be a better message for Labour

Asia ramps up use of dirty fuels to cover energy shortfall triggered by Iran war

Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot

Ben Jennings on changes to bin collections in England – cartoon

‘God squad’ waives endangered species law to allow US drilling in Gulf of Mexico

UK’s smallest bird of prey among 200 species at risk of extinction, study finds

Deepwater discoveries: scientists find more than 110 new fish and invertebrate species in the Coral Sea

Trump’s Iran war and drilling push show ‘dangerous volatility’ of fossil fuel era

‘Something out of the ordinary’: why are Japan’s oysters dying en masse?

More drilling in North Sea ‘not the answer’ for UK energy security, say former military leaders

‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters

Rubbish and recycling in England: what’s changing and why it matters