I was in anguish over the climate crisis, ecological devastation and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But this almost indestructible little creature gave me a lesson in resilience

Guardian Book Blog

04.06.2025

Weatherwatch: How 60 species are just one cyclone away from extinction | Extreme weather | The Guardian

Hurricane Dorian killed off the Bahama nuthatch and more biodiversity hotspots are at risk from extreme weather

Guardian Book Blog

04.06.2025

Brenda the buzzard terrorises children at Havering primary school | Birds | The Guardian

Pupils told to play indoors because of attacks by bird of prey, which follow strikes by hawk near Luton

Guardian Book Blog

04.06.2025

Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves | Birds | The Guardian

Experts think the clever birds learned the technique by watching people and then trying it themselves

Guardian Book Blog

04.06.2025

Country diary: A week of relief for all on the farm | Farming | The Guardian

Tebay, Cumbria: The rain came, finally, helping to bring lambing to an end – and we had good news about our neighbouring farm too

Guardian Book Blog

04.06.2025

‘Barbaric’: wildlife advocates criticize Florida bear hunt proposal | Florida | The Guardian

Controversial plans could see the slaughter of almost 200 black bears, about 5% of the state’s estimated total

Guardian Book Blog

04.06.2025

‘What a girl!’ Lost dog returns after swimming to island on 100-mile journey | UK news | The Guardian

Adventurous Amber spotted by two men in a boat in Poole Harbour after travelling across Hampshire and Dorset

Guardian Book Blog

04.06.2025

Taking Word Wheel to another two levels | Puzzle games | The Guardian

Brief letters: From excellence to genius | Effortlessly superb | Time flies | Describing misogyny | Unwanted Americanisms

Guardian Book Blog

03.06.2025

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects | Insects | The Guardian

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

Guardian Book Blog

03.06.2025

The incredible world of animal medicine – podcast | Science | The Guardian

Ian Sample meets Jaap de Roode, professor of biology at Emory University in Atlanta, and author of the book Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes and Other Animals Heal Themselves. De Roode explains how a chance discovery got him interested in animal medicine, the amazing ways that creatures use toxins to fight parasites and pathogens, and what humans have learnt about medicine from the animal world

Guardian Book Blog

02.06.2025

We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then? | Animals | The Guardian

AI may soon be able to decode whalespeak, among other forms of communication – but what nature has to say may not be a surprise

Guardian Book Blog

01.06.2025

Bee-ware: truck carrying 250m honeybees overturns by US-Canada border | Washington state | The Guardian

Washington state officials swarmed to scene to find 70,000lbs of hives and bees abuzz in a sticky situation

Guardian Book Blog

01.06.2025

Catch of the day: rare gold lobster saved by attentive cook in Rhode Island | Rhode Island | The Guardian

The crustacean, since named Calvin, had a genetic mutation that occurs in about one in 30m lobsters

Guardian Book Blog

01.06.2025

This elusive possum was thought to be extinct outside Victoria. Now ecologists have made an ‘amazing’ discovery | New South Wales | The Guardian

Leadbeater’s possum spotted in NSW at Kosciuszko national park, at least 250km away from the nearest sighting in Victoria

Guardian Book Blog

31.05.2025

Country diary: A paradise inside four walls | Environment | The Guardian

Tiverton, Devon: On days like this, there’s no finer place to be than in a walled garden, and this one is bursting with gooseberries, beans and buttercups

Guardian Book Blog

31.05.2025

Warning UK-Gulf trade deal could let in low-welfare chicken and undermine farmers | Trade policy | The Guardian

Industry figures say allowing poultry imports that do not align with British production standards would be ‘betrayal’

Guardian Book Blog

30.05.2025

Vet complaint process in UK often ‘stacked against pet owners’ | Veterinary medicine | The Guardian

Consumer group Which? says owners are put off complaining and system for doing so is not fit for purpose

Guardian Book Blog

30.05.2025

Birds were nesting in the Arctic during age of dinosaurs, scientists discover | Palaeontology | The Guardian

Minuscule fossils from 73m years ago are oldest evidence yet for birds nesting in polar regions

Guardian Book Blog

30.05.2025

Week in wildlife: a piggybacking mouse, heart-shaped vultures and our smallest otter | Environment | The Guardian

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

Guardian Book Blog

29.05.2025

‘People buy a lion and can’t handle it’: inside the farms breeding cubs for TikTok and Instagram likes | Illegal wildlife trade | The Guardian

In Thailand, exotic pets are increasingly popular among the wealthy elite, but few are prepared for a long-term commitment and campaigners say many animals are kept in cruel conditions

Guardian Book Blog

29.05.2025

More than a long face: horses use ‘rich repertoire’ of expressions to interact | Animal behaviour | The Guardian

Facial movements help horses communicate signals such as difference between aggression and play, researchers find

Guardian Book Blog

29.05.2025

Senegal fishing industry issues are complex | Senegal | The Guardian

Letter: Fishmeal exports to fish farms in Turkey bring badly needed income to the west African country, writes Prof Elliott Green

Guardian Book Blog

29.05.2025

Pigeon causes chaos on Delta Air Lines flight – video | Air transport | The Guardian

The footage was filmed by Tom Caw, a passenger on the flight, who said the plane was returned to its gate so the bird could be removed

Guardian Book Blog

28.05.2025

Florida man bitten by alligator then fatally shot by deputies after ‘rampage’, sheriff says | Florida | The Guardian

Man believed to be high on methamphetamine swam in alligator-infested waters before charging at officers

Guardian Book Blog

28.05.2025

This livestream of baby bald eagles is the only thing keeping me sane | Well actually | The Guardian

A YouTube video feed of eagles Jackie and Shadow and their two children has given me hope the internet isn’t all bad

Guardian Book Blog

28.05.2025

Are millennials really substituting dogs for children? Obviously not – as any dog owner would know | Zoe Williams | The Guardian

Take it from me: far from being fungible objects of love, canines and kids are the opposite of each other in so many ways, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Guardian Book Blog

28.05.2025

Humans moving to ancient cities sent bedbug numbers soaring, say scientists | Science | The Guardian

The insects had been in decline until people started cramming together in the first large settlements

Guardian Book Blog

28.05.2025

Country diary: Our fields are green, but this farm desperately needs more rain | Farming | The Guardian

Long Dean, Cotswolds: Like the recent thunder, there’s been a rumbling of concern about our dry spring

Guardian Book Blog

28.05.2025

Sorry, but there’s nothing as tasty as fried bacon | Food | The Guardian

Brief letters: Life without meat | Musk and Trump | Secret to a long marriage | Wayward tortoises | Semicolons aplenty

Guardian Book Blog

27.05.2025

Fast-track to where? The new law opening up New Zealand to a mining boom | New Zealand | The Guardian

Critics say the country’s unique biodiversity is at risk as the government plans to boost mineral exports to $3bn by 2035

Guardian Book Blog

27.05.2025

Nearly extinct ‘forgotten antelope’ photographed for first time in DRC | Environment | The Guardian

Upemba lechwe considered one of world’s rarest large mammals with fewer than 100 thought to remain

Guardian Book Blog

27.05.2025

Man swims 62 miles around Martha’s Vineyard to press for protections for sharks | Massachusetts | The Guardian

Jaws was filmed on island in 1975, stoking fears of marine animal that swimmer Lewis Pugh is now trying to protect

Guardian Book Blog

27.05.2025

The last-ditch race to save the Orinoco crocodile – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

For decades, the men and women of the Venezuelan Crocodile Specialist Group have been raising younglings of the critically endangered species in a race against time to avoid its extinction

Guardian Book Blog

27.05.2025

Queensland’s shark control plan facing court challenge and federal intervention, experts say | Queensland | The Guardian

Crisafulli government’s $88m plan for more shark nets and baited drum lines at popular beaches may fall foul of federal laws

Guardian Book Blog

26.05.2025

Couple reunited with calf mid-interview as receding flood waters reveal devastation in NSW – video | New South Wales | The Guardian

A couple is reunited with livestock they feared lost to last week's flooding emergency in New South Wales, finding one of their calves mid-interview

Guardian Book Blog

26.05.2025

Country diary: My fear is that one year the swifts will not return | Birds | The Guardian

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: Watching the skies each spring comes with an increasing sense of unease. And it’s not just swifts we’re waiting for

Guardian Book Blog

26.05.2025

Bringing back the birds: the ‘ghost woodlands’ transforming England’s barren sheep fells | Environment | The Guardian

A groundbreaking tree-planting programme is uniting farmers and rewilders, as portions of common ground in the Yorkshire Dales national park are being restored to their ancient glory

Guardian Book Blog

25.05.2025

Western quolls and brushtail possums thrive in national park a decade after reintroduction | Animals | The Guardian

The Australian animals were locally extinct but have had a resurgence in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges national park

Guardian Book Blog

25.05.2025

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

The mammals, once locally extinct, are thriving in special parts of the park where predator numbers have been reduced

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25.05.2025

Young country diary: Peregrine v pigeon? There’s only one winner | Birds | The Guardian

Canary Wharf, London: I saw a young falcon a few months ago get itself trapped, I wonder if this was the same one, now grown up and a formidable hunter

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A moment that changed me: I saw my first wild water bear – and snapped out of my despair at the world | Insects | The Guardian

Weatherwatch: How 60 species are just one cyclone away from extinction | Extreme weather | The Guardian

Brenda the buzzard terrorises children at Havering primary school | Birds | The Guardian

Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves | Birds | The Guardian

Country diary: A week of relief for all on the farm | Farming | The Guardian

‘Barbaric’: wildlife advocates criticize Florida bear hunt proposal | Florida | The Guardian

‘What a girl!’ Lost dog returns after swimming to island on 100-mile journey | UK news | The Guardian

Taking Word Wheel to another two levels | Puzzle games | The Guardian

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects | Insects | The Guardian

The incredible world of animal medicine – podcast | Science | The Guardian

We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then? | Animals | The Guardian

Bee-ware: truck carrying 250m honeybees overturns by US-Canada border | Washington state | The Guardian

Catch of the day: rare gold lobster saved by attentive cook in Rhode Island | Rhode Island | The Guardian

This elusive possum was thought to be extinct outside Victoria. Now ecologists have made an ‘amazing’ discovery | New South Wales | The Guardian

Country diary: A paradise inside four walls | Environment | The Guardian

Warning UK-Gulf trade deal could let in low-welfare chicken and undermine farmers | Trade policy | The Guardian

Vet complaint process in UK often ‘stacked against pet owners’ | Veterinary medicine | The Guardian

Birds were nesting in the Arctic during age of dinosaurs, scientists discover | Palaeontology | The Guardian

Week in wildlife: a piggybacking mouse, heart-shaped vultures and our smallest otter | Environment | The Guardian

‘People buy a lion and can’t handle it’: inside the farms breeding cubs for TikTok and Instagram likes | Illegal wildlife trade | The Guardian

More than a long face: horses use ‘rich repertoire’ of expressions to interact | Animal behaviour | The Guardian

Senegal fishing industry issues are complex | Senegal | The Guardian

Pigeon causes chaos on Delta Air Lines flight – video | Air transport | The Guardian

Florida man bitten by alligator then fatally shot by deputies after ‘rampage’, sheriff says | Florida | The Guardian

This livestream of baby bald eagles is the only thing keeping me sane | Well actually | The Guardian

Are millennials really substituting dogs for children? Obviously not – as any dog owner would know | Zoe Williams | The Guardian

Humans moving to ancient cities sent bedbug numbers soaring, say scientists | Science | The Guardian

Country diary: Our fields are green, but this farm desperately needs more rain | Farming | The Guardian

Sorry, but there’s nothing as tasty as fried bacon | Food | The Guardian

Fast-track to where? The new law opening up New Zealand to a mining boom | New Zealand | The Guardian

Nearly extinct ‘forgotten antelope’ photographed for first time in DRC | Environment | The Guardian

Man swims 62 miles around Martha’s Vineyard to press for protections for sharks | Massachusetts | The Guardian

The last-ditch race to save the Orinoco crocodile – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

Queensland’s shark control plan facing court challenge and federal intervention, experts say | Queensland | The Guardian

Couple reunited with calf mid-interview as receding flood waters reveal devastation in NSW – video | New South Wales | The Guardian

Country diary: My fear is that one year the swifts will not return | Birds | The Guardian

Bringing back the birds: the ‘ghost woodlands’ transforming England’s barren sheep fells | Environment | The Guardian

Western quolls and brushtail possums thrive in national park a decade after reintroduction | Animals | The Guardian

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

Young country diary: Peregrine v pigeon? There’s only one winner | Birds | The Guardian

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