Last year was the easy bit – we made a lot of promises to reduce our…
Month: October 2020
The Guardian’s climate promise: we will keep raising the alarm
The global climate crisis is the emergency of our times. Amid all the fear and sadness…
Papillon the bear: how the ‘escape genius’ sparked a national debate in Italy
The prisoner is in a cage measuring two by six metres, surrounded by three 7,000-volt electric…
Country diary: the vanguard from Svalbard
They returned in record-equalling time: 28 barnacle geese, dropping out of the sky on 16 September,…
Tasmanian devils released into sanctuary north of Sydney in step towards ‘rewilding’
Conservationists working with disease-free Tasmanian devils have taken the next step in what they hope will…
Pelosi said she’s not in the loop on president’s health
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi talks to reporters during her weekly news conference in the…
The Guardian view on houseplants: balm for troubled times | Editorial
The essayist Jia Tolentino wrote last year about people being in the grip of “houseplant fever”;…
Vulnerable Republicans seek lifeline from SCOTUS hearings
Amy Coney Barrett will be grilled during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. But four Republican senators…