‘The Earth could hear itself think’: how birdsong became the sound of lockdown

It’s six in the morning and still dark, 24 March 2020. I wake early and, knowing…

How Deb Haaland’s confirmation bid became a ‘proxy fight’ over fossil fuels

Partway through the sometimes contentious confirmation hearing for Deb Haaland as US secretary of the interior…

‘It’s a funeral march’: French artist JR’s powerful eulogy for Australia’s Murray-Darling

The mood around Lake Cawndilla in western New South Wales on Saturday is funereal but defiant,…

‘All the bones are there’: could a new electric vehicle be built in Australia?

Walking around the old Holden factory site in Elizabeth, Paschal Somers points out each piece of…

Oregon wolf makes history on lengthy journey to California

Male called OR-93 makes longest tracked journey of any wolf in a century but elsewhere in…

Climatologist Michael E Mann: ‘Good people fall victim to doomism. I do too sometimes’

The author and eminent climate scientist on the deniers’ new tactics and why positive change feels…

Electricity needed to mine bitcoin is more than used by ‘entire countries’

Bitcoin mining – the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves…

Geordie shore: the river Tyne’s ‘soft, gentle’ kittiwakes fly into trouble

The gull that ‘won’t eat your fish and chips’ is about to make its annual return…

Weatherwatch: how forecasts emerged in medieval times

Detailed weather observations and astronomical calculations were occurring as early as ninth century Humans have talked…

How Trump scrambled the next decade of elections

Former President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention. | AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Days after the…