theguardian.comadded August 2026
Wildlife | The Guardianby South West News Service1h ago
A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed that the once endangered species is thriving.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Thalia Juarez7h ago
Along the concrete streets of Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, a vividly colored home stands out among the rest.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Jonathan Watts1d ago
The world’s largest penguin colony has declined by two-thirds since 2011, most likely because of the climate crisis, a study has revealed.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Nick Visser1d ago
“There’s a small, furry animal, wrapped up in a handkerchief, keeping warm inside my shirt.” So begins a 1989 documentary featuring the late ABC broadcaster Richard Morecroft, one of Australia’s...
Wildlife | The Guardianby Mark Cocker2d ago
The morning was sunlit and the sky the sort of deepest blue dome that makes your heart sing – and all the louder for being at the time of least natural sound.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Petra Stock3d ago
While the case of a whale found 11km upstream in a New South Wales river this weekend was unusual, it was not unprecedented, experts say.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Gwyneth Lewis3d ago
Every time I cross the new Severn Bridge leaving Wales, I check the state of the tide, using a buoy in the middle of the channel.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Graham Readfearn Climate and environment correspondent4d ago
Gruesome images of adult and juvenile humpback whales along Australia’s east coast with slash and gouge injuries from boat and propeller strikes highlight what experts say is a growing problem, as...
Wildlife | The Guardianby Leslie Felperin7d ago
This ebulliently accessible but never tacky British documentary finds a delightfully sneaky way to explore debates around environmental damage, agriculture and the countryside without ever being...
Wildlife | The Guardianby Guardian community team7d ago
Once again, the Young Country Diary series is open for submissions! Every three months we ask you to send us an article written by a child aged 8-14.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Hannah Rochell9d ago
With the continued backlash against AI and growing concern about our reliance on screens, an analogue life has never looked so appealing.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Paul Evans9d ago
I’m telling the story from a pub in the bailey opposite the ruins of Oswestry Castle. There in 1165, Henry II, the Angevin (Anglo-Norman) king of England, gathered troops from the Marcher Lords to...
Wildlife | The Guardianby Kate Bradbury12d ago
I have made the woods my home, moving from Brighton to the outskirts of Lewes, where the garden backs on to the remains of an old oak wood.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Drew Rooke13d ago
It was early September when the two spur-winged plover chicks hatched. They hit the ground running, literally.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Aisling Irwin14d ago
It was a stifling evening in July and Matt Phelps was out for a stroll, when a piercing, whirring noise stopped him in his tracks.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Nick Dall14d ago
It began on 28 July, when fishers near Saldanha Bay on the west coast of South Africa reported seeing dead sardines (also known as pilchards) floating at sea.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Josie George14d ago
Here’s a lovely word: aestivate. It’s what my garden snails did through the parched weeks of our summer drought, pulling their bodies high up into their shells and closing the door.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Guardian staff reporter15d ago
It is rare for me to visit the same place twice within a couple of weeks, but my walk in the Teifi Marshes recently was curtailed by heavy rain, and I feel that I have unfinished business.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Colin Chappell17d ago
Sometimes a moment of surprise has years of experience behind it. Last week as I was out in the oilseed rape fields applying a cocktail of microbe food (molasses, humates and fish paste), I had...
Wildlife | The Guardianby Petra Stock18d ago
Most people identify wombats and kangaroos as Australian animals, but one in six people surveyed in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria think red foxes are native wildlife.
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