Environment

Why dodgy doors are the latest casualty of the UK heatwaves

Sticking or unlockable doors are yet another problem caused by the hot summer, but winter can also b…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 6h ago

Week in wildlife: Bat in a toilet, a speeding gull and a bird with shoes

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 6h ago

What happens to people’s health when air pollution is reduced?

Growing evidence that cutting coal use and bans on high-polluting vehicles are leading directly to h…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 8h ago

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to d…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 8h ago

Python named Jodie Foster first snake to receive pioneering cancer treatment

Chester zoo resident, 23, ‘back to her usual feisty self’ after electrochemotherapy for tumour i…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 9h ago

Lobsters and acidic seas: can shellfish help neutralise one of the greatest threats to the ocean?

Crustaceans are the subject of tests to see if alkalis added to seawater, so it absorbs more CO2, ha…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 23h ago

The winner of the Guardian's Invertebrate of the year 2026 revealed

In a much closer contest than previous years – when the tardigrade and the common earthworm won wi…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 1d ago

Humans have learned to fear ‘bugs’, but we shouldn’t – life as we know it hinges on invertebrates | Chris Packham

At this point of the crisis in our relations with the natural world, we’ve got to protect these cr…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 1d ago

From bone-dry to soaked to the bone, welcome to the age of climate whiplash | Aditya Chakrabortty

This punishingly hot and dry summer will probably be followed by another wet winter. But it’s noth…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 1d ago

Reform says we need to choose between climate and economy. It's wrong | Larry Elliott

The party’s deputy leader Richard Tice says we should stop worrying about extreme heat and enjoy i…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 1d ago

Introducing Ulez was my hardest decision as mayor of London – but now we know its astonishing impact | Sadiq Khan

Critics said I was attacking motorists. It’s more important for me that the city’s children are…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 2d ago

‘We humans are inept at taking care of baby animals’: why well-fed orphan bears die in the wild

Scientists surprised to find all but two of 12 grizzlies were dead within a year of ‘feelgood’ r…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 3d ago

‘Our new normal’: how marine heatwaves affect life in British seas

As warming seas push native species to cooler waters farther north, once-rare visitors have become m…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 4d ago

Gorging on bearcam: the livestream of big beasts eating that draws millions

Ahead of Fat Bear Week, avid fans are glued to the spectacle of brown bears devouring salmon at Broo…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 5d ago

Killer fungus: how a disease threatening bat species has spread to northern Canada

Bat experts were shocked at how fast white-nose syndrome had reached Canada’s northernmost colonie…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 1w ago

Too smart to eat? Why octopus farms are such a slippery problem

As a controversial Spanish plan for sustainable meat on an industrial scale is dropped, it has reviv…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 1w ago

The return of the caspian tiger: how a species feared extinct has come back to Kazakhstan

The wild capture and release of a female big cat into a nature reserve is the first step towards rei…

United Kingdom The Guardian - Environment 1w ago