‘An abomination’: Idaho hunters earned thousands of dollars to kill newborn wolf pups, records reveal

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More than 40 pilot whales die after mass stranding in New Zealand’s North Island

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Peru airport officials discover 3,000 tarantulas smuggled inside dirty socks

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How Democrats used the midterms to turn affordability concerns into ‘green populism’

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Trump takes 500 actions to weaken cancer protections, new report says

South West Water’s failure to fix leaks ‘putting customer supplies at risk’

‘No one cares about the little guy’: plastic nurdles still washing ashore in Sri Lanka five years after toxic spill

Warming UK seas could ‘fundamentally reshape marine ecosystems’ – report

World’s wettest rainstorms are getting wetter, affecting flood and drought risk

Endangered giant burrowing frog returns to wild after tadpoles rescued from ashes of black summer fires

Firework noise limit should be drastically cut to protect wild animals, UK government told

Funding to help poorer countries cope with climate crisis has stalled, says UN

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Rogue UK energy bosses and brokers face crackdown on mis-selling

How penguin poo is making Antarctic snow melt faster

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Kashmir’s potato pits are vanishing – and generations of knowledge could be buried for ever

UK makes huge aid cuts to Commonwealth nations despite warm words at Chogm

Great Britain’s worst-ever bluetongue season ‘a major animal welfare crisis’

Snowy Hydro 2.0 executives awarded bonuses totalling $751,925 despite cost blowout

New tool will help gardeners move away from thirsty English classics to drought-resistant plants

North America’s most widely distributed game bird is under threat

Brazil publishes first global ‘roadmap’ for phasing out fossil fuels

UK’s most polluting power plant could power country’s largest AI datacentre

UK ministers told not to engage formally with Indian mega-zoo after lobbying

Red gold from purple flowers: saffron harvest in Kashmir – in pictures

Control of Britain’s 39m smart meters passes to non-profit startup

‘It’s really, really unusual’: tender bond between male donkey and bull baffles scientists

Rare ant nest stolen from last place in England where species survives

Greenpeace activists create ‘boulder barrier’ in North Sea to deter industrial fishing

A lackluster response to North Carolina flooding disasters is eroding Republican support in one county

Europe could face colder weather as polar vortex weakens

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‘They have schedules to follow’: how fast ferries can threaten endangered whales in the Mediterranean

Cryosphere faces permanent damage when world overshoots 1.5C, scientists warn

Colorado community fights plan to use drones to spray weed killer

Northern Territory water plan condemned as ‘blatant and shameless’ attack on nature

Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and ‘free passes to pollute’, report says

Mill 19: a creative hub built into a former steel factory

Healey to veto new offshore wind projects if they will not lower bills

‘Bunch of baloney’: calls grow for Cop summit reforms as countries on track to fail nature targets