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Week in wildlife: a hedgehog’s afternoon tea, royal cygnets and a snarling wolf

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 06:00:45 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis?

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:00:44 +0000

The bulk of global greenhouse gas emissions come from countries that are not democratic, and many big oil and gas exporters are also authoritarian

The big emitters: which countries are holding back climate action and why?

When it comes to the climate crisis, how do you negotiate with an autocracy?

150 million years old and critically endangered: assassin spider stalks its prey – video

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:36 +0000

The Kangaroo Island assassin spider’s only known home is in the north-west of the island off the coast of South Australia, where it hides out in moist clumps of leaf litter. As parts of Kangaroo Island – still recovering from the black summer bushfires – suffer through near-record drought, scientists say an invasive plant root disease is drying out the Jurassic-era spider's habitat even further

Britons urged to help measure butterfly recovery after 2024 slump

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:01:34 +0000

Big Butterfly Count asks volunteers to spend 15 minutes recording numbers in local green space before 10 August

People are being urged to help measure the scale of Britain’s butterfly bounceback after last summer’s dramatic decline with this year’s launch of the world’s biggest insect survey.

Shooting of bear that swam to tiny Canadian island frustrates First Nations

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:53:25 +0000

Indigenous groups had offered to rehome grizzly nicknamed Tex who was killed without authorization

The journey of Tex, a young grizzly bear that gripped public attention in Canada after swimming to a tiny populated island, came to a violent end this week after he was shot and killed without authorization, despite plans by Indigenous groups to relocate him.

These dogs are trained to sniff out an invasive insect—and they're shockingly good at it

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:02:40 +0000

Dogs trained by everyday pet owners are proving to be surprisingly powerful allies in the fight against the invasive spotted lanternfly. In a groundbreaking study, citizen scientists taught their dogs to sniff out the pests’ hard-to-spot egg masses with impressive accuracy. The initiative not only taps into the huge community of recreational scent-detection dog enthusiasts, but also opens a promising new front in protecting agriculture. And it doesn’t stop there—these canine teams are now sniffing out vineyard diseases too, hinting at a whole new future of four-legged fieldwork.

How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry – visualized

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:00:24 +0000

The president is threatening to deport essential farm workers, grocery clerks and food delivery drivers. But without them, shelves could go empty and prices could soar

The Trump administration’s assault on immigrants is starting to hit the American food supply.

Rodent wars: US city where ground squirrels outnumber people fights back

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:37:59 +0000

Residents of Minot, North Dakota, exasperated by proliferation of furry foot-long neighbors

The Richardson’s ground squirrel weighs less than a pound, is about a foot long and is native to the northern Plains.

The little creature also is a ferocious tunneler, and it’s exasperating the people of Minot, North Dakota, where it’s burrowing everywhere from vacant lots to the middle of town, and growing more plentiful over the past two decades.

Cory Booker pitches bill to allow lawsuits against pesticide makers over ‘toxic products’

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:02:58 +0000

Pesticide Injury Accountability Act would ensure that Bayer, Syngenta and others can be held responsible for allegedly causing health issues

US politics live – latest updates

Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:25:25 +0000

President has 15 days to approve or veto legislation that critics say will lead to vast deforestation and destruction of Indigenous communities

Brazilian lawmakers have passed a bill that drastically weakens the country’s environmental safeguards and is seen by many activists as the most significant setback for the country’s environmental legislation in the past 40 years.