Something gnawed your oak tree? Sink hole in your road? How Zurich’s beaver hotline is reassuring residents

Forecasters say 2025 ‘more likely than not’ to be UK’s hottest year on record

Country diary: These woods have a secret – the bomber aircraft that once hid here | Jennifer Jones

The best of the long read in 2025

Victoria to get first publicly owned windfarm with 33-turbine Latrobe valley project

Pink platypus spotted in Gippsland is cute – but don’t get too excited

Yellowstone hot spring spews forth spectacular muddy plumes

Trump officials halt offshore wind farm projects over ‘national security risks’

Muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone national park – video

100-tonne fatberg discovered in east London sewer

Ten people rescued after boats pulled into sinkhole in Shropshire canal

Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate

‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions - but experts sceptical

Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward

US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs

‘Miracle’ of Zealandia: chick is born to rare takahē pair thought to be infertile

Weather tracker: Further flood watches issued across California

Ministers defend ‘most ambitious animal welfare strategy in generation’ before publication – UK politics live

2025 is ‘year of the octopus’ as record numbers spotted off England’s south coast

Country diary 1925: A wagtail without the wanderlust

Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be outlawed in England

Country diary: A seal so close I can see its nostrils flaring | Tom Allan

Best of 2025: Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land – podcast

Forget elf on the shelf – these Aussie birds are perfect for the festive season | Jess Harwood

Do prawns feel pain? Why scientists are urging a rethink of Australia’s favoured festive food

Sea change: the drive to restore millions of oysters on the Norfolk coast

UK supermarkets turn to European turkeys as avian flu hits supply

The plants that thrive in salt: could halophytes help save coastal farming?

Snails on a plane: Australia flies rescue mission to Norfolk Island for a tiny, critically endangered species

Why are Australians paying so much for gas – and will Labor’s new scheme bring down prices?

‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis

This year’s Christmas could be Britain’s greenest yet, energy operator says

When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby | George Monbiot

Country diary: There’s more to mistletoe than Christmas kisses | Kate Blincoe

Was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero?

Trump’s EPA wants to weaken formaldehyde protections – this is what it could mean

Revealed: how Toyota uses retro-style games and prizes to urge US workers to lobby politicians

Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide

Weather tracker: Early snowfall in New York and a storm rips down lights in Spain

‘I can’t think of a place more pristine’: 133,000 hectares of Chilean Patagonia preserved after local fundraising

Week in wildlife: honeymooning owls, an otter on the razz and a magical frog

As the US invests in fossil fuels, young climate activists push back in the courts

Reform-run Kent council accused of blocking scrutiny of claim it saved £40m

How we hold back the tide: levees, drains and a bronze age circle of skulls

UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’

Country diary: Postcard from a pier, where brent geese are the main attraction | Lev Parikian

They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests

‘We’ve future-proofed’: UK’s biggest car factory upgrades for EV revolution

Meg O’Neill: the ‘hard-nosed’ boss hired to be the new head of BP