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The Guardian view on rising sea levels: adaptation has never been more urgent | Editorial

admin — Sun, 25 May 2025 15:55:31 +0000

Stark warnings about threatened coastal areas should prompt fresh efforts to protect those most at risk

‘A heifer came into the bedroom’: Kevin survived the NSW floods – but his dairy farm might not

admin — Sun, 25 May 2025 15:00:32 +0000

Like many in the region, the third-generation farmer is burying his dead stock. He says he is at ‘breaking point’

Warning: this story contains images of dead animals

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Quoll and possum species brought back from local extinction in the Ikara-Flinders ranges – video

admin — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:07:16 +0000

Ten years after the reintroduction of western quolls and brushtail possums into the Ikara-Flinders Ranges national park, rangers say populations of the once-locally extinct mammals are flourishing. In a joint effort between Foundation for Australia’s Most Endangered Species and the South Australian government, the animals live in 'safer havens' in the park where predator numbers have been reduced

Melbourne shopping centre placed into lockdown – as it happened

admin — Sat, 24 May 2025 23:24:20 +0000

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What are public parks for? Inside the debate sparked by London festival row

admin — Sat, 24 May 2025 12:03:22 +0000

Differing interpretations of public access rights are at heart of Brockwell case pitting campaign group against festival fans

Public parks have been a cherished part of British life since the 19th century; for the Victorians they represented a “commitment to cultivate public good within the public realm”.

But differing interpretations of this vision for municipal green space are at the heart of a debate over a very 21st-century issue: music festivals.

I’m feasting on the contents of hedgerows like a horse in plimsolls – and I’ve never felt so healthy | Nell Frizzell

admin — Sat, 24 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Nettles, hedge garlic, sticky weed: Britain in May is a lush salad bar that I can’t resist, and it’s doing wonders for my skin

I had a daughter during one of the bone-cold early months of this year, which means that my full-time job is now to produce a yield. Between the hours of dawn and midnight, with a few lactic minutes in between, I am a feeding machine for a new person.

Scientists seek to save Florida’s dying reefs with hardy nursery-grown coral

admin — Sat, 24 May 2025 10:00:57 +0000

Reefs off the Keys have lost 90% of healthy coral cover in 40 years, but replanting effort aims to make reef more resilient

A taskforce of experts looking into the mass bleaching and decline of Florida’s delicate coral reefs is planting more than 1,000 nursery-grown juveniles from the reef-building elkhorn species in a new effort to reverse the tide of destruction.

Zoo welfare standards for Britain get first update since 2012

admin — Sat, 24 May 2025 06:00:53 +0000

New rules for zoos and aquariums include guidance on elephant enclosures and ban on touching fish

Zoos will be obliged to boost conservation efforts and improve animal welfare under the first revision of mandatory standards for the sector in more than a decade.

Under the update to the Standards of Modern Zoo Practice for Great Britain, last set out in 2012, elephants will need to be kept in larger enclosures and birds of prey must be kept in large aviaries rather than being tethered.

Labour MPs press for right to roam policy in England after supreme court ruling

admin — Sat, 24 May 2025 06:00:51 +0000

Backbencher says ‘it’s time to resolve the issues of access to the English countryside once and for all’

Labour backbenchers are pressing the government to revive a right to roam policy in England after a supreme court ruling enshrined the right to wild camp on Dartmoor.

Cub found alone in US woods now being raised by wildlife staff in bear costumes

admin — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:11:40 +0000

Two-month-old black bear, who was starving in a California forest, is youngest cub the San Diego center has cared for

Human bears, some would say, are taking care of a two-month-old cub that spent days without his mother, starving in a California forest.