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29 August 2024

  • Hundreds of sea lions gather at San Carlos beach in Monterey, California, US.

    The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife in pictures: a sea lion takeover, an unlucky caiman and a hungry gull

  • "MIND THE GAP" written on train platform edge

    Brief letters
    Mind the gap in help for disabled people

  • Winner – threatened species: Teen Spirit – juvenile sea lions enjoy a stream at the head of Port Ross, Aotearoa New Zealand

    Australian Geographic nature photographer of the year 2024 – in pictures

  • A salmon with yellow and orange markings swims towards the camera with its mouth open.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Like doomsday’: why have salmon deserted Norway’s rivers – and will they ever return?

  • The age of extinction
    Who wins from nature’s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global ‘biopiracy’ battle

  • Beavers transform Devon’s River Otter – but their return across England and Wales has stalled

  • Butterflywatch
    Butterflywatch: large white caterpillars thrive on perennial kale

  • Thrush hour: study suggests birdsong can ease commuter stress

  • Wildlife photographer of the year 2024 – preview

28 August 2024

  • A tiny aircraft with two human passengers, a huge fan-like propeller on the back and a yellow parachute above leads a wavy line of birds against a clear blue sky.

    The age of extinction
    This bird came back from extinction - now scientists in an aircraft are teaching it to migrate

  • Beaver in a river

    ‘Beaver-bombing’: unauthorised rodent releases on the rise in English rivers

27 August 2024

  • A female peregrine falcon with the first egg of the season at 367 Collins Street in Melbourne

    New peregrine in town: female falcon becomes latest to nest atop Melbourne skyscraper

  • A ghost orchid, a white flower with small purple dots

    ‘Holy grail’ ghost orchid rediscovered in UK for the first time since 2009

  • A female tiger shark at the dive site Tiger Zoo, off the island of Fuvahmulah, Maldives.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How solving the mystery of pregnant tiger sharks in the Maldives could help save the apex predator

  • A Hippo known as Pepa at the Santa Fe zoo, in Medellin, Colombia on July 15, 2018.

    The long read
    The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’s marauding hippos?

26 August 2024

  • Tim Blackburn

    Forget the moths that eat your clothes. Most are beautiful and deserve to be loved

    Tim Blackburn
    From the merveille du jour to the burnished brass, Britain’s 2,500 species of moths are all special in their own way, says academic Tim Blackburn
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    First Dog on the Moon
    Sphen has died. It seems Magic and all the other penguins are sad

    It’s a lovely story even without all our (my) twee anthropomorphism projected on to it
  • Low cliffs on the coastof Endelave island

    Fjords and seaweed safaris: a new cycle trail along Denmark’s east coast

    A cycling holiday on the Jutland peninsula’s ‘Fjordmino’ is a gentle procession of quiet roads, ferry rides, cute B&Bs and islands

25 August 2024

  • Rescue teams operate off Porticello harbour near Palermo on 22 August 2024, three days after the Bayesian sank. Seven people are confirmed to have died.

    Brief letters
    Many die at sea, but not all stories are told

  • Humpback whale breaches, or propels itself out of the water, in front of cliffs of ice and snow at an icefjord in Greeland

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Whales are doing well so it’s time to scrap the body that once protected them, says former head

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