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The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather | Editorial
The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather | Editorial
Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at how the struggle to adapt to a dangerously warming world has become a test of global justice
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December 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather | Editorial
Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing
Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing
ORIGINAL:Defunding one of the world’s key living fungi libraries: Research and farming will lose vital living toolsThis family of fungi can function as natural fertilizers, boosting plant growth and restoring depleted ecosystems. But federal funding that supports the Kansas-based collection has been eliminated, and that will likely result in its closure
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December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing
Four species, 160 days, 50,000 images: meet the photographer dedicated to showing the lovable side of flying foxes
Four species, 160 days, 50,000 images: meet the photographer dedicated to showing the lovable side of flying foxes
Doug Gimsey’s extreme close-ups of ‘sky puppies’ are designed to trigger an emotional response that endears people to the ‘wrongly vilified’ mammals
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December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Four species, 160 days, 50,000 images: meet the photographer dedicated to showing the lovable side of flying foxes
From gifts that last to sustainable swaps, how we’re encouraging more thoughtful spending
From gifts that last to sustainable swaps, how we’re encouraging more thoughtful spending
In this week’s newsletter: as we head into 2026, we’ll be testing products to help you cut waste and lighten your load on the planet
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December 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
From gifts that last to sustainable swaps, how we’re encouraging more thoughtful spending
‘Cocaine, gold and meat’: how Colombia’s Amazon became big business for crime networks
‘Cocaine, gold and meat’: how Colombia’s Amazon became big business for crime networks
Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routes
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December 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
‘Cocaine, gold and meat’: how Colombia’s Amazon became big business for crime networks
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims
New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living
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December 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims
Weather tracker: Deep freeze grips Canada as US records warmest Christmas
Weather tracker: Deep freeze grips Canada as US records warmest Christmas
Temperatures plunge below -50C in the Yukon, while swaths of US experience springlike weather
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December 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Weather tracker: Deep freeze grips Canada as US records warmest Christmas
Year in wildlife – in pictures
Year in wildlife – in pictures
We look back over the year’s wildlife photographs, and hand out some much-deserved gongs to brilliant and beautiful creatures around the world
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December 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Year in wildlife – in pictures
First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west
First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west
Mersey Valley Way takes in Manchester and Stockport on its 13-mile route with other walks to be identified in 2026
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December 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west
Staying at home could leave you exposed to indoor air pollution, study reveals
Staying at home could leave you exposed to indoor air pollution, study reveals
Secondhand tobacco smoke and routine tasks such as operating the stove shown to be biggest emitters of indoor pollution in UK homes
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December 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Staying at home could leave you exposed to indoor air pollution, study reveals
Sustainable aviation fuel take-up in UK unlikely to hit 2025 target, data suggests
Sustainable aviation fuel take-up in UK unlikely to hit 2025 target, data suggests
Provisional figures in government mandate’s first year show 20% shortfall in levels of SAF supplied for UK flights
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December 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Sustainable aviation fuel take-up in UK unlikely to hit 2025 target, data suggests
Country diary: Little rituals to help sparrows and wrens | Paul Evans
Country diary: Little rituals to help sparrows and wrens | Paul Evans
The Marches, Shropshire: Boxing Day has its own more violent customs between humans and animals. That’s not the world I choose to live in
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December 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Country diary: Little rituals to help sparrows and wrens | Paul Evans
On the naughty list: backpackers celebrating Christmas at Coogee beach leave behind 20 tonnes of rubbish
On the naughty list: backpackers celebrating Christmas at Coogee beach leave behind 20 tonnes of rubbish
Mayor praises workers for rapid clean-up after construction work at nearby Bronte forces annual unauthorised ophan’s party to switch sites
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December 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
On the naughty list: backpackers celebrating Christmas at Coogee beach leave behind 20 tonnes of rubbish
Feeling burnt out? A bush blessing for the end of the year | Jess Harwood
Feeling burnt out? A bush blessing for the end of the year | Jess Harwood
Now is the time to think of new beginnings
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December 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Feeling burnt out? A bush blessing for the end of the year | Jess Harwood
There’s an itsy-bitsy fear I want to overcome. I will never be a fan, but can I at least be Normal about spiders? | Rebecca Shaw
There’s an itsy-bitsy fear I want to overcome. I will never be a fan, but can I at least be Normal about spiders? | Rebecca Shaw
In order to be less scared, I imagine the huge Australian huntsman as a girlie, just chilling and listening to us yap. It sounds dumb, but it worked (a little bit)
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December 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
There’s an itsy-bitsy fear I want to overcome. I will never be a fan, but can I at least be Normal about spiders? | Rebecca Shaw
‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers
‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers
Low-cost tech and joined-up funding have reduced illegal logging, mining and poaching in the Darién Gap – it’s a success story that could stop deforestation worldwide
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December 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
‘They’re scared of us now’: how co-investment in a tropical forest saw off loggers
‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor
‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor
Government poised to officially protect 200,000 hectares of remote Patagonian coastline and forest
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December 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor
UK electric car charger rollout slows amid worries over EV switch
UK electric car charger rollout slows amid worries over EV switch
Smallest number of new chargers since 2022 as carmakers persuade government to weaken EV sales targets
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December 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
UK electric car charger rollout slows amid worries over EV switch
Wild animals are great gift givers – and there’s one present in particular I’d love to receive for Christmas | Helen Pilcher
Wild animals are great gift givers – and there’s one present in particular I’d love to receive for Christmas | Helen Pilcher
Penguins hand over pebbles; scorpionflies give spitballs. But I’m hankering after a sea sponge presented by a dolphin, says science writer Helen Pilcher
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December 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Wild animals are great gift givers – and there’s one present in particular I’d love to receive for Christmas | Helen Pilcher
Plant ‘tredges’ to boost England’s tree cover, gardeners urged
Plant ‘tredges’ to boost England’s tree cover, gardeners urged
Royal Horticultural Society’s call backs government aim to increase woodland cover from 10% to at least 16.5% by 2050
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December 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Plant ‘tredges’ to boost England’s tree cover, gardeners urged
North Carolina Christmas tree farmers are optimistic after Hurricane Helene
North Carolina Christmas tree farmers are optimistic after Hurricane Helene
More than a year after storm ripped apart families and farms, growers are bullish about strength of their industry
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December 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
North Carolina Christmas tree farmers are optimistic after Hurricane Helene
‘Freedom is a city where you can breathe’: four experts on Europe’s most livable capitals
‘Freedom is a city where you can breathe’: four experts on Europe’s most livable capitals
From Copenhagen’s cycle lanes and Vienna’s shared parks to Barcelona and London’s unfulfilled potential, better living is close at hand
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December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
‘Freedom is a city where you can breathe’: four experts on Europe’s most livable capitals
How to turn an excess of herbs into a showstopping sauce for just about anything – recipe | Waste not
How to turn an excess of herbs into a showstopping sauce for just about anything – recipe | Waste not
This make-ahead, easy green sauce is suitable for to almost any main dish and a great way to use up hang-about herbs
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December 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
How to turn an excess of herbs into a showstopping sauce for just about anything – recipe | Waste not
U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers ‘snuck out’ to avoid scrutiny, say Tories
U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers ‘snuck out’ to avoid scrutiny, say Tories
Victoria Atkins says announcement to raise tax threshold from £1m to £2.5m days before Christmas ‘seems very odd’
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December 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers ‘snuck out’ to avoid scrutiny, say Tories
Country diary: A winter walk means only one thing – mud | Man in the Woods
Country diary: A winter walk means only one thing – mud | Man in the Woods
Dursley, Gloucestershire: We have to embrace these darker months and get outside, but there’s also only so much wind and sludge I can take
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December 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Country diary: A winter walk means only one thing – mud | Man in the Woods