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UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them

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Scientists sound the alarm for Nullarbor’s fragile limestone caves and unique underground creatures

A massive renewable energy project threatens the treasures that lie beneath, including rare cave animals and a record of ancient life forms, experts warn

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‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield

Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther

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‘Extinction crisis’ could see 500 bird species vanish within a century – report

Researchers say urgent conservation efforts will be needed to mitigate the ‘shocking statistic’ that threatens to unravel ecosystems

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Country diary: Down in the valley we go, journeying back in time

Roslin Glen, Edinburgh: Turner and Wordsworth are with us as we go down a precarious path into ancient woodland

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Noise pollution harms health of millions across Europe, report finds

About 110 million people suffer stress and sleep disturbance that lead to tens of thousands of early deaths

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Killer whales seen grooming each other with kelp in first for marine tool use

Behavior in orca population off coast of US and Canada captured by scientists using drone observation

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The UK is getting drier. Could reusing greywater help?

Experts say the average Briton uses too much water per day and societal change needs to start today to tackle looming water crisis

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Weather tracker: US and Europe swelter in June heatwaves

Monday and Tuesday likely to be the hottest days of the year so far in eastern US while temperatures rise in Europe

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Country diary: Last spring feels a long time ago in the allotment

Hove, East Sussex: The blackbird parents have food to feed chicks, hoverflies are booming and the peacock butterflies are back. Everything may be precarious, but this is all welcome

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‘A timebomb’: could a French mine full of waste poison the drinking water of millions?

Scientists fear thousands of tonnes of chemicals dumped in mining tunnels in Alsace may seep into an aquifer with devastating consequences for people and wildlife

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Long way to go to stop lending for deforestation

A number of bank-financed landholders might be involved in illegal landclearing, raising questions about lender exposure to risky nature destruction.

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Labour scraps £950m EV rapid charging fund first announced by Conservatives

£400m to be set aside for on-street charging points instead of motorways after RCF was mired in delays

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‘It takes 25 years for a footprint to disappear’ – the secret, beguiling magic of Britain’s bogs

They are the air-conditioning units of the world – filtering water, preventing flooding, preserving history and providing habitat. Our human ancestors knew the extraordinary power of peatlands, so why are they still being destroyed?

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How England’s outdated water tracking system leaves regulators in the dark

Experts warn accurately monitoring consumption by bulk users such as farmers, datacentres and businesses can be all but impossible

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Gardening in a climate crisis: how to be a green thumb when old rules no longer apply

Unpredictable conditions and changing plant behaviour underscore the need to alter our gardening and landscaping choices

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Federal Labor ministers at odds over contentious NT gas pipeline decision, internal document shows

Exclusive: Agriculture minister Julie Collins and Indigenous affairs minister Malarndirri McCarthy expressed concern over Sturt Plateau pipeline’s construction

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Why the summer solstice is a ‘celestial starting gun’ for trees

Research shows longest day is a cue for beeches to launch their growth strategies

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The seagulls have landed: why gulls are encroaching on Britain’s towns

Avian invaders have coastal communities in Britain and beyond in a flap – but people are learning how to live with them

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Country diary: A bumper year for orchids – the meadow is brimming with them

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: On the farm, cutting the grass early has allowed wildflowers to thrive, especially the bee and pyramidal orchids

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The ‘sacrifice zone’: villagers resist the EU’s green push for lithium mining

Residents of a Portuguese rural idyll where four vast mines are planned are among those who feel they will pay too high a cost for the energy transition

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Current heatwave ‘likely to kill almost 600 people in England and Wales’

Surge in deaths would not be occurring without human-caused global heating, scientists say as analysis published

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Tackle industrial fishing, but local inshore fleets deserve support

Letters: Tom Collinson stands up for local fishing fleets, Christopher Hird is worried that after Attenborough’s Ocean everyone will think ‘job done’, and Dr Sally Campbell urges the UK to ratify the UN high seas treaty

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England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels

Exclusive: Investigation finds 76% rise in water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in two decades

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Rare maccoa ducklings hatch at Chester zoo for first time

Four ducklings add to safety-net population of African species that is estimated to be down to 5,000 in the wild

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