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Exclusive: Tony Juniper, who will oversee nature restoration fund, says claims ‘not fully backed by evidence’
The government’s leading environmental adviser has said ministers are wrong to suggest nature is blocking development.
Tony Juniper, the chair of Natural England, is to oversee a national nature restoration fund, paid into by developers, which will enable builders to sidestep environmental obligations at a particular site – even if it is a landscape protected for its wildlife.
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Three years after the deaths of the British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira, the Guardian joined the Indigenous peoples continuing their dangerous and often gruelling work to protect the rainforest
Photographs by João Laet
Tataco grimaces and braces for impact as his canoe hurtles towards the banks of Brazil’s Jordan River into a blizzard of branches, vines and leaves. In the bow of the boat, his Indigenous comrade, Damë Matis, shields his face with his arms as he is swallowed by the vegetation, twigs gouging his muscular shoulders.
“Get down! Get down!” Tataco yells, battling to control the vessel before its occupants are skewered by the lance-like boughs jutting out from the shore.
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Clive Lewis says he will vote against planning bill amid concerns it will let developers build over precious habitats
Labour is using post-Brexit freedoms to override EU nature laws and allow chalk streams and nightingale habitats to be destroyed, MPs have said.
The planning and infrastructure bill going through parliament will allow developers to circumvent EU-derived environmental protections and instead pay into a nature restoration fund.
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Environment committee also wants to outlaw dredging and mining due to destructive effects on seabed and marine life
Ministers must ban bottom trawling for fish in marine protected areas, an influential group of MPs has said, because the destructive practice is devastating the seabed and marine life.
The UK parliament’s environmental audit committee called for a ban to encompass dredging and mining as well as the bottom trawling of fish in the 900,000 sq km covered by nearly 180 marine protected areas.
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World Meteorological Organization report says record heat in 2024 was driven by climate crisis and intersected with extreme weather events
Almost 40 million sq kilometres of ocean around south-east Asia and the Pacific – an area five times the size of Australia – was engulfed in a marine heatwave in 2024, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report has revealed.
WMO scientists said the record heat – on land and in the ocean – was mostly driven by the climate crisis and coincided with a string of extreme weather events, from deadly landslides in the Philippines to floods in Australia and rapid glacier loss in Indonesia.
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Senior Tory to give speech in which he will criticise ‘neo-luddites’ on right for failing to embrace green technology
James Cleverly has taken direct aim at Kemi Badenoch’s decision to ditch net zero targets by criticising what he called “neo-luddites” on the right who seem scared of using green technologies to protect the environment.
The senior Conservative MP, who lost to Badenoch in last year’s Tory leadership race, said it was a false choice to believe the UK had to choose between economic growth and protecting the environment. Badenoch has argued current net zero targets will harm the economy.
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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
Daniel Janzen only began watching the insects – truly watching them – when his ribcage was shattered. Nearly half a century ago, the young ecologist had been out documenting fruit crops in a dense stretch of Costa Rican forest when he fell in a ravine, landing on his back. The long lens of his camera punched up through three ribs, snapping the bones into his thorax.
Slowly, he dragged himself out, crawling nearly two miles back to the research hut. There were no immediate neighbours, no good roads, no simple solutions for getting to a hospital.
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‘They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway,’ one advocate says
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Australian federal and state governments have approved a wave of fossil fuel developments over the past six weeks, sparking accusations Anthony Albanese and other leaders are “gaslighting” the public – claiming they take the climate crisis seriously while pushing up emissions.
Peter Dunn, a former commissioner of emergency services for the Australian Capital Territory, says the Albanese government is “trashing its integrity” and has “lost their licence to lead, days after the election”.
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Dry weather helps insects get out early and survive longer but bigger picture still one of concern
It has been a very good year so far for butterflies in Britain, thanks to the sunniest spring since records began in 1910. Dry, sunny weather has helped butterflies get out early, survive for longer than usual and lay plenty of eggs.
The naturalist Matthew Oates noted 36 consecutive days when he saw butterflies on the wing, from Good Friday through to late May – a cheering and increasingly unusual experience in this country.
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Groundwater levels are plunging in a rich agricultural region dubbed the Green Triangle. It’s a slowly unfolding disaster
Graham Kilsby, a fourth-generation farmer, is surveying the Kilsby sinkhole, a popular freshwater diving site on his property south of Mount Gambier.
The gin-clear waters provide visibility of up to 65 metres. But, as he inspects the sinkhole when Guardian Australia visits, alarm bells ring. Water levels dropped 1.5 metres between January and March 2025.
Lake George at Beachport. The drainage system that cuts through the region ends here, with flood water released into the sea. Here the drainage system is bone dry
Continue reading...Women should use the most effective contraception to avoid pregnancy while taking 'skinny jabs', the drugs regulator says.
Study found ADHD is not becoming more common, despite a surge in people being diagnosed.
For the first time, scientists show how our microbiome forms affects the risk of infection.
Marlene Lowe is among those helping University of Aberdeen researchers to help millions of sufferers.
Patients who died at Castle Hill Hospital near Hull may have suffered avoidable harm, documents suggest.
Experts say the gonorrhoea figures are a worry. although the actual number of drug-resistant cases is low.
Risk of dying was cut by a third after colon cancer patients dialled up exercise levels.
Retailers will no longer be able to sell single-use vapes as new laws come into force across the UK.
Migraines are one of the most complex neurological disorders. What is the science behind the latest hack?
An Australian man meets his stem-cell donor for the first time after travelling to the UK.
Hawai‘i lawmakers passed a groundbreaking bill that will impose a small tax on visitors in an effort to protect the islands from the growing risks of a warming planet.
Across the Indian and Pacific oceans, tiny atolls are facing an existential crisis. But not all islands are equally vulnerable — it comes down to ecosystem health.
“We need your creativity, we need your skills, we need your decency, we need your commitment to healing our planet,” said CEO M. Sanjayan during the commencement address at William & Mary.
Underwater and out of sight, the world’s seagrasses are under threat. A new study says failure to protect them will come at a steep cost — in more ways than one.
Axolotls — the cute and charismatic creatures made famous by the video game “Minecraft” — are in a free fall. But a new study is offering a glimmer of hope.
"Heal our planet, protect our future”: six words driving a global movement to protect nature. Conservation International is meeting the moment in an ambitious new campaign.
Penning a message can ease fears, promote action, recent research indicates.
From “blue carbon” to “ecosystem services,” environmental jargon is everywhere. In an explainer series, we try to make sense of it.
If you can’t beat ’em, wear ’em? Conservation International, designers turn fish into fashion.
Human health, animal health and environmental health are interconnected. A new article published in the Lancet argues for an approach to pandemic threats that embraces this idea.
