Spider season! Ten species you’ll see scuttling across Britain’s carpets and lawns this autumn
Wildlife | The Guardianby Tim Dowling·19d ago
Summer is at an end, and suddenly spiders seem to be everywhere – in your house, in your garden, in your hair.
Country diary: A lesson from my final diary after nearly 40 years – keep looking closely | Phil Gates
Wildlife | The Guardianby Phil Gates·19d ago
After another exceptionally dry summer, there’s a nagging question lurking at the back of naturalists’ minds: which species will be the winners and losers in our evolving climate?
Fat Bear Week has returned – and the salmon are swimming for their lives
Wildlife | The Guardianby Cecilia Nowell·20d ago
The bears have returned to the river and are packing on the pounds as another Fat Bear Week begins at Katmai national park.
Country diary: Dinner time for the buzzard family is not a dignified affair | Kate Blincoe
Wildlife | The Guardianby Kate Blincoe·20d ago
I’m out on the farm most days, but I miss so much. It took a few days to notice a mother mallard with her late brood of 12 ducklings until they were all dabbling in a yard puddle.
Do whales grieve? Rare footage of humpback alongside stillborn calf suggests they might | Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation
Wildlife | The Guardianby Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation·21d ago
It was a tragic sight. One day last July, a newborn humpback whale calf lay motionless on the seafloor, just a kilometre off Australia’s Gold Coast.
Record heatwaves bring Britain’s second-best butterfly season in 16 years
Wildlife | The Guardianby Patrick Barkham·22d ago
The recording-breaking heat of 2026 delivered the second-best British butterfly season of the past 16 years, according to the Big Butterfly Count.
Country diary: Goldfinches and grasses, together in an explosion of movement | Mark Cocker
Wildlife | The Guardianby Mark Cocker·23d ago
Stands of tufted hair-grass, some over a metre tall, burned beige by the summer heat, were churned by strong autumn westerlies.
Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversity
Wildlife | The Guardianby Maya Yang·24d ago
Scientists have discovered nine new deep-sea sponge species off Alaska, offering new insights into the region’s largely unexplored marine biodiversity.
Country diary: Notice anything wrong with this ripe, succulent plum? | Claire Stares
Wildlife | The Guardianby Claire Stares·24d ago
This summer has been challenging for the fruit trees in my garden, with intense heat and a lack of rain causing poor cropping, premature ripening and pre-harvest drop.
Rabbits are the biggest threat to Australia’s native species. Why are their numbers booming again?
Wildlife | The Guardianby Graham Readfearn Climate and environment reporter·25d ago
Jojo the rabbit-detecting dog is working eight days on, two days off, running up to 20 kilometres a day chasing rabbits in the south-west of Bon Bon Reserve in South Australia’s arid centre.
Artist delights in beautiful ‘mess’ and dead trees of England’s rewilding sites
Wildlife | The Guardianby Patrick Barkham·26d ago
Rewilding areas do not usually conform to traditional notions of beauty in England’s green and pleasant land.
Los Angeles to memorialize late mountain lion P-22 with sculpture in Griffith Park
Wildlife | The Guardianby Roque Planas·26d ago
The city of Los Angeles will memorialize its most famous mountain lion with a bronze sculpture at Griffith Park, the 4,200-acre (1,700-hectare) stretch of land the cougar once roamed.
This wildflower paradise is only open six weeks a year. As soon as I entered, my mind started to calm
Wildlife | The Guardianby Caitlin Cassidy·27d ago
On a cloudy Spring morning, a group of 20 nature enthusiasts gather at the entrance to a nature park on the northern edge of Sydney.
Crocodile head found in luggage at Italian airport
Wildlife | The Guardianby Angela Giuffrida in Rome·8 Sept 2026
An Italian man is facing a hefty fine or possible prison term after the dried head of a critically endangered crocodile was found in his luggage at Turin’s Caselle airport.
Glowworms shine again in North Yorkshire after larvae reared in garden shed
Wildlife | The Guardianby Patrick Barkham·7 Sept 2026
The bioluminescent beams of “fairy folk” are shining again from a nature reserve in North Yorkshire for the first time in a century after the successful reintroduction of endangered glowworms.
‘Britain’s Yellowstone’: restoration project aims to take the greed out of land acquisition
Wildlife | The Guardianby Patrick Barkham·6 Sept 2026
It is difficult to find the most remote place in England. There is no public transport, no roads and no sign of any human habitation. Online route finders mistakenly direct cars up a grassy track.
Country diary: The wild, riotous sounds of otters in battle | Cal Flyn
Wildlife | The Guardianby Cal Flyn·5 Sept 2026
I hear them before I see them: a wailing, or something more like ululation. High-pitched, repeated vocalisations that are neither man nor cat, but somewhere in between.
Trump order directs officials to consider stripping protections for gray wolves
Wildlife | The Guardianby Roque Planas·5 Sept 2026
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday directing the interior department to consider de-listing gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act and to contemplate whether the agency could...
Moveable feast: myna birds on train in viral video looking for food, not a ‘joyride’
Wildlife | The Guardianby Caitlin Cassidy·4 Sept 2026
A viral video of common myna birds appearing to calmly ride a Sydney train in place of winged flight has shocked social media users.
Country diary: It’s 10am at the Melplash Show and the cider contest is well under way | Sara Hudston
Wildlife | The Guardianby Sara Hudston·4 Sept 2026
It’s Melplash Show day and all of Bridport is here. Crowds jostle for a look at the pigs, cattle and sheep.
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