theguardian.comadded August 2026
Wildlife | The Guardianby Josie George18d ago
Here’s a lovely word: aestivate. It’s what my garden snails did through the parched weeks of our summer drought, pulling their bodies high up into their shells and closing the door.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Guardian staff reporter19d ago
It is rare for me to visit the same place twice within a couple of weeks, but my walk in the Teifi Marshes recently was curtailed by heavy rain, and I feel that I have unfinished business.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Colin Chappell21d ago
Sometimes a moment of surprise has years of experience behind it. Last week as I was out in the oilseed rape fields applying a cocktail of microbe food (molasses, humates and fish paste), I had...
Wildlife | The Guardianby Petra Stock22d ago
Most people identify wombats and kangaroos as Australian animals, but one in six people surveyed in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria think red foxes are native wildlife.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Tim Dowling23d ago
Summer is at an end, and suddenly spiders seem to be everywhere – in your house, in your garden, in your hair.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Phil Gates23d 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?
Wildlife | The Guardianby Cecilia Nowell23d ago
The bears have returned to the river and are packing on the pounds as another Fat Bear Week begins at Katmai national park.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Kate Blincoe24d 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.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation25d 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.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Patrick Barkham26d 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.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Mark Cocker27d ago
Stands of tufted hair-grass, some over a metre tall, burned beige by the summer heat, were churned by strong autumn westerlies.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Maya Yang27d ago
Scientists have discovered nine new deep-sea sponge species off Alaska, offering new insights into the region’s largely unexplored marine biodiversity.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Claire Stares28d 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.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Graham Readfearn Climate and environment reporter28d 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.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Patrick Barkham12 Sept 2026
Rewilding areas do not usually conform to traditional notions of beauty in England’s green and pleasant land.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Roque Planas11 Sept 2026
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.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Caitlin Cassidy11 Sept 2026
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.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Angela Giuffrida in Rome8 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.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Patrick Barkham7 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.
Wildlife | The Guardianby Patrick Barkham6 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.
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