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23 12 2020 | 12:12

2020: a truly unimaginable year for biodiversity.

The Guardian’s biodiversity editor looks back on a year that put the state of the planet on the agenda in ways no one could have foreseen. The year 2020 was always destined to be a crucial one for…

20 12 2020 | 08:18

Starlings' aerial antics behind mystery of Scots' power outages.

Walk at dusk reveals murmurations bouncing networks’ electricity cables and switching off the lights. The mystery surrounding a string of unexplained power cuts across a small town in Scotland has…

20 12 2020 | 07:49

America's last wilderness is about to go to the highest bidder for oil drilling.

Ten thousand years of undisturbed nature will soon be open to the highest bidder, starting at $25 an acre. Language is everything. Those who argue for oil drilling in the Arctic national wildlife…

13 12 2020 | 06:56

World’s biggest mammal migration under threat.

Experts say near-threatened fruit bats, crucial for restoring forests in Africa, are in danger. Kasanka National Park, Zambia – As the red sun sets over a remote part of Zambia’s Central Province,…

13 12 2020 | 06:24

Conservationists trying to save Kenyan giraffes stranded on flooding island.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Conservationists are working to rescue giraffes stranded on an island in Lake Boringo in western Kenya after heavy rains led to the flooding of their rangeland habitat,…

05 12 2020 | 12:50

Daytime sightings of elusive aardvarks hint at troubled times in the Kalahari.

Aardvarks are notoriously elusive, nocturnal mammals. They generally hide in their underground burrows during the day and emerge at night to feed exclusively on ants and termites. Aardvarks are…

29 11 2020 | 07:19

World's Most Remote Island Creates Largest Atlantic Ocean Sanctuary.

In the South Atlantic Ocean, a tiny island of 250 people has made a significant contribution to global marine conservation by protecting a huge swath of ocean under its control.

28 11 2020 | 07:57

Two polar bears come sniffing in the Arctic night: Esther Horvath's best photograph.

In the autumn of 2019, I joined an expedition to the Arctic. We set sail from Tromsø, Norway, on 20 September, on the Polarstern icebreaker. There were 100 people on board – 60 scientists and 40 crew…

28 11 2020 | 07:47

Earlier springs could cause common bird species to become extinct by end of the century, scientists warn.

‘It could be that the apparent stability today is hiding a future collapse’. A rapidly warming climate will spell disaster for swathes of life on earth, including many bird species. A new study…

28 11 2020 | 07:05

Cemetery review – elephant heads for the graveyard in hardcore art piece.

Carlos Casas’s film – half documentary, half experimental essay – is a near-wordless evocation of a ‘celebrity’ Sri Lankan elephant’s confrontation with death.

25 11 2020 | 06:34

World's only known white giraffe gets fitted with a tracking device.

London (CNN)The only known white giraffe in the world has been fitted with a GPS tracking device in an effort to protect him from poachers in Kenya. The unique male giraffe now stands alone after a…

16 11 2020 | 08:25

Wildlife crime underworld rampant, with shockingly low conviction rates, warns report.

The wildlife crime underworld in Britain is rampant, with “shockingly low conviction rates”, experts say, as a new report reveals the exploitation of wildlife is going unabated.

16 11 2020 | 08:02

Scatological science: how poo analysis could help save endangered species.

Three separate species of banded langur have been identified after DNA analysis of their faeces, paving the way for targeted conservation strategies

16 11 2020 | 07:29

Animals vote, too: how different species choose – or depose – a leader.

Honeybees, Indian jumping ants and pigeons are some of the species that have evolved ways of collective decision-making.   Americans are currently deciding who they think will best serve them as…

09 11 2020 | 07:43

An incredible scar': the harsh toll of Trump's 400-mile wall through national parks.

Samuel Gilbert visited four distinct wilderness areas near the new border wall, which is fragmenting protected habitats and threatening endangered species.

03 11 2020 | 07:54

Nine insect-eating bird species in Amazon in sharp decline, scientists find.

Paper suggests climate crisis reducing insects in lowlands and central jungle, as fruit-eaters not affected Bird species are in decline even in the remote parts of the Amazon, far from human…

02 11 2020 | 07:01

Doe your bit: Japan invents bags deer can eat after plastic-related deaths.

The famed deer that roam the city of Nara, in Japan, no longer face discomfort – or far worse – after local companies developed a safe alternative to the plastic packaging discarded by tourists that…

30 10 2020 | 10:38

Protecting nature is vital to escape 'era of pandemics’ – report.

Halting destruction of wild places could slow frequency of deadly outbreaks, say scientists. The world is in an “era of pandemics” and unless the destruction of the natural world is halted they will…

29 10 2020 | 14:38

Banks lent $2.6tn linked to ecosystem and wildlife destruction in 2019 – report.

Lack of policies regulating impact on natural world means finance industry effectively bankrolling biodiversity loss, analysis finds. The world’s largest investment banks provided more than $2.6tn…

29 10 2020 | 14:26

International legal experts head to Africa to support courts in poaching fight.

Before the scheme, only 24 per cent of wildlife crime prosecutions in Kenya ended in conviction, writes Abbianca Makoni. Global legal experts including from Britain experienced in sharpening laws…