LA county sheriff’s deputy dies after medical emergency during relay race

Rachel Reeves to tell G7 accelerating shift to clean energy is best defence against energy price shocks

A costly plan will keep a steel plant in JD Vance’s hometown running. Locals are aghast: ‘It’s horrible’

‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Hawaii’s small farmers begin recovery after catastrophic flooding

Toxic Pfas residue identified on 37% of California produce, new analysis finds

Forget birdwatching, I’m into moth-watching: they’re fascinating and misunderstood insects | Helen Pilcher

Nigel Farage’s farming adviser calls for wheat prices to double

‘Visible from space’: why Spain has the world’s biggest concentration of greenhouses

‘Lots of people still don’t have roofs’: Jamaicans living in hardship after Hurricane Melissa

We’ve been coming to this waterhole for 30 years. Like the creek we’ve been rearranged – ravaged by time but still shining | Jessie Cole

Country diary: A weary wheatear shows off his best feature | Henry

Country diary: The roe deer are lucky to live on such a glorious hillside | Isobel

‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered

Whale stranded off Germany swims to freedom after days of efforts to save it

Scientists film whale giving birth while other whales work together to help her

Rare tongue-shaped fungus discovered in nature reserve in West Sussex

Wily coyote? urban canines take more risks compared with rural ones – study

‘Tempolimit? Nein, danke!’: why German petrolheads won’t slow down – despite the energy crisis

Is foraging really feasible to feed myself?

‘It helped me feed my six children’: how Africa’s first water fund supports farmers to protect Kenya’s biggest river

Weather tracker: cold weather sweeps Europe and cyclone hits Australia

Cut the lights – and seven more ways to save Britain’s bats

Four wives, two passports and a very elusive butterfly: one woman’s search for her lepidopterist father

Week in wildlife: a flying rodent, a duty-free possum and an emerald viper

Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing

Beavers ‘breathe new life’ into Dorset as dams built and biodiversity returns

Iran’s black rain is latest grim example of weather in war zones

More than 6m vapes and pods discarded weekly in UK despite single-use ban, study finds

Country diary: Look again at these unassuming spiky bundles – they’re firestarters | Phil Gates

Dolphins, stingers and ‘salt tongue’: an epic ocean swim around New Zealand’s east coast

Fossil fuel companies finally accept the climate crisis – just not their role in it

Hair compost, sugar waxes and refillable shampoo: inside a California low-waste salon

EPA approves sale of higher ethanol fuel in bid to lower gas prices

Australia urged to swap diesel for electric buses as fuel costs soar

Listen to a grieving mother and have no doubts: water privatisation has been a lethal scandal | Clive Lewis

Church leaders criticise Christian owner of GB News over channel’s climate attacks

Octopus reports sharp rise in solar panel sales since start of Iran war

Sewage released into England’s rivers and seas nearly 300,000 times last year

What does the Iran war mean for clean energy transition?

Fears net zero is ‘next Brexit’ as oil crisis fuels political climate divide

‘A toxic punch’: fears Russia’s war is pushing the Black Sea and its dolphins past tipping point

How coded wartime forecasts kept intelligence out of enemy hands

Country diary: Spring is here – a mad mix of joy and discipline | Paul Evans

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?

How to turn old sourdough into a classic pudding – recipe | Waste not

How weaving, glamping and kayak tours are helping to tackle deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot