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Nearly 100 birds are being ‘headstarted’ to boost numbers as species vanishes from lowland EnglandAn evocative peeping echoes across a large, sunny aviary. The distinctive call of the curlew comes from dozens of chicks, who strut through long grass squabbling over a much-prized worm.The scruffy-looking chicks with the beautiful voices may be the best hope for the endangered species, whose numbers have halved in...

By funding and stocking products from Brazilian meat giant JBS, firms have also supported land-grabbing, investigation claims Continue reading...

Lawyers representing 20-week-old foetus allege state is breaching rights of future generationsA 20-week-old foetus is fronting a legal challenge in South Korea that argues the state is breaching the rights of future generations by not doing enough to cut national emissions.Parents and lawyers representing the foetus, as well as 61 babies and children under 11, claim national carbon targets do not go far enough...

Records for electricity usage broken in Shandong, Henan and Jiangsu after early summer heatwavesChina’s premier has called for increased production of coal to stave off mass blackouts, as early summer heatwaves have prompted record electricity usage.On Friday, authorities again issued high temperature warnings for about a dozen provinces across the central and northern provinces, after consecutive days in the high 30s. Continue reading...

NSW Greens criticise ‘overreach’ of police operation against climate activists; Anthony Albanese leaving Sunday for Europe visit; protester interrupts Chinese ambassador’s Sydney address; Chris Bowen says energy market has returned to ‘normal market conditions’; report of aged care providers operating at a loss; nation records at least 46 Covid deaths. Follow the day’s newsQantas to cut domestic flights as fuel prices soarJacinta Allan tipped...

Conservationists who re-established the raptors in the UK with birds from Spain are now returning the favourWhen red kites were reintroduced in England more than 30 years ago, young birds were brought over from thriving populations in Spain. Now the carrion-feeding raptor is doing so well that English chicks – with distant Spanish ancestry – are being flown back to Spain to boost ailing...

Human rights and environment organisations call for police to act ‘responsibly, with integrity’ ahead of planned climate action in SydneyFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingUnions, human rights groups and environmental organisations say police overreached in their treatment of protesters arrested after a bungled raid on the weekend, and have urged officers...

Housing market posts first monthly decline since September 2020; at least 52 Covid deaths recorded. This blog is now closedRecruiter told to halt search for New York trade role a day before John Barilaro’s resignationCoalition government spent $6m prosecuting Bernard Collaery and three other whistleblowersLisa Wilkinson to refrain from publicly discussing Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation, court hearsSamsung agrees to pay $14m penalty over misleading...

Lawyers say government is attempting to intimidate pastoralists as thousands flee to Kenya amid escalating row over evictionsTwenty Maasai pastoralists from northern Tanzania have been charged with the murder of a police officer during protests over government plans to use their ancestral land for conservation and a luxury hunting reserve.The officer was allegedly shot by an arrow on 10 June while attempting to demarcate...

Risk of significant tsunami within next 30 years is nearly 100%, Unesco says, as it urges coastal cities to become ‘tsunami-ready’A tsunami could soon hit major cities on or near the Mediterranean Sea including Marseille, Alexandria and Istanbul, with a nearly 100% chance of a wave reaching more than a metre high in the next 30 years, according to Unesco.The risk of a tsunami...

Analysis finds 58% of rapeseed oil in Europe is burned for fuel despite soaring prices and climate impactEurope and the UK are pouring 17,000 tons – or about 19 million bottles – of cooking oil into vehicle fuel tanks every day, even though it is up to two-and-a-half times more expensive than before 2021, according to new analysis.The equivalent of another 14 million bottles...

India’s monsoon season has been worse than usual, sweeping away possessions and leaving people huddling on raised groundPeople living in Assam, in north-east India, are usually stoical about the flooding that occurs to a greater or lesser extent every monsoon season. But this year they say the situation is dramatically worse. “It was like a scene from Titanic,” one man told local media of...

Bureau of Meteorology says winter will be wetter than average and a rare three-in-a-row La Niña is still on the cardsFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Australian Bureau of Meteorology has announced an end to the 2021-22 La Niña in the tropical Pacific – but it could return with the BoM...

Conservationists celebrate $200m fund for expanding national park land but concerns remain over lack of spending on renewables and emissions reductionGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingQueensland conservationists are celebrating a state budget with unprecedented funding for new national parks, but others are outraged it “does nothing” to address the climate emergency.On Tuesday, the Palaszczuk government committed $262.5m to protecting more...

Car company alleges mistakes of fact and law in appeal against April decision that could result in $2bn damages paid to ownersFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingToyota has appealed against a class action ruling which could see more than 260,000 car owners receive damages of about $2bn, but concerns remain about...

Protesters admit they surrounded car, deflated its tyres and placed tarpaulin over it, but say they thought officers were trespassersGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingBlockade Australia activists say New South Wales police officers, who were dressed in camouflage and conducting hidden surveillance, refused to identify themselves when they were discovered at a property in Sydney’s north-west.According to multiple protesters and...

Ban on manufacture and import of six popular types of items will begin in December 2022, and sales a year laterCanada laid out its final regulations on Monday spelling out how it intends to apply a ban on plastic bags, straws, takeout containers and other single-use plastics.“Only 8% of the plastic we throw away gets recycled,” said federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos in French,...

Giant stingray snagged by local fisher in Mekong River weighs nearly 300kgThe world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists.The stingray, captured on 13 June, measured almost four metres from snout to tail and weighed just under 300kg, according to a statement on Monday by Wonders of the Mekong, a joint Cambodian-US...

Forecast models are already hinting at area of significant heat taking hold across Iberia next weekThankfully, the heatwave is coming to an end this week across western Europe, with temperatures returning nearer to normal. But this may only be a temporary reprieve, as forecast models are already hinting at an area of significant heat taking hold across Iberia by the start of next week.The...

Award-winning founder of green development centre was arrested on tax evasion charges in FebruaryThe US government has said it is “deeply concerned” by the sentencing of the Vietnamese environmental advocate and activist Nguy Thi Khanh and called on Vietnam to release her.Khanh, Vietnam’s first recipient of the prestigious Goldman environmental prize, was reported in February to have been arrested on tax evasion charges. The...

Visitors will be allowed on southern loop under system designed to manage crowds after flooding destroyed bridges and roadsAfter catastrophic flooding destroyed bridges and roads and drove out thousands of tourists, Yellowstone national park will partially reopen at 8am Wednesday.The National Park Service announced this weekend that visitors will once again be allowed on Yellowstone’s southern loop under a temporary license plate system designed...

Police say group was planning ‘extreme forms’ of protest, activists say police actions were ‘insane overreach’Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingNew South Wales police have defended their raid on a group of climate protesters in north-west Sydney on Sunday, alleging that the group was planning “extreme forms” of protest and acted aggressively towards officers.On Sunday morning, police deployed in significant...

As state suffered record flooding – and Yellowstone national park closed – his office initially declined to say where he wasMontana’s governor, Greg Gianforte, was vacationing in Italy during that state’s historic flooding, which caused Yellowstone national park to close, his office confirmed on Friday.As the state suffered record flooding and rockslides, Gianforte’s office had initially declined to say where he was or when...

Jefferson da Silva Lima turned himself in to Amazon police as autopsy finds journalist and indigenous expert were shotBrazil’s federal police said Saturday that a third suspect in the deaths of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira has been arrested. The pair, whose remains were found after they went missing almost two weeks ago, were shot to death, according to an...