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4 February 2026

  • An ambush bug nymph on a flower

    Wildlife photographer of the year – people’s choice 2026

    A shortlist of 24 images has been selected for the wildlife photographer of the year people’s choice award. You can vote for your favourite image online. The winner will be announced on 25 March and shown from that date as part of the overall wildlife photographer of the year exhibition, which runs until 12 July at the Natural History Museum in London
    Gallery24
  • Angela and Todd James, parents of Canadian backpacker Piper James, arrive at Brisbane airport

    Parents of Piper James visit K’gari to farewell daughter and ‘walk where she last walked’ as dingo cull continues

    Grieving family of the backpacker will attend a smoking ceremony conducted by the island’s traditional owners
  • A blackbird singing on grass.

    Specieswatch
    Feeling chirpy: how listening to birdsong can boost your wellbeing

    Paying attention to the calls of our avian neighbours can reduce stress, find scientists in Germany

3 February 2026

  • A fawn with big ears.

    California officials move forward with plans to exterminate mule deer from island

  • Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands, seen from above.

    Plan to allow fishing around Chagos Islands alarms conservationists

2 February 2026

  • Scientists have reintroduced green and golden bell frogs to the Australian Capital Territory

    Good luck Dua Leaper: scientists return frogs wiped out by fungal disease to wild

  • Aerial image of the Cerne giant in Dorset

    From Dorset to the world: wave of donations helps to secure Cerne giant’s home

  • a person walking through snow

    Millions across US face freezing temperatures as south experiences rare snowfall

  • A European Robin bird rests on the Brithdir Mawr sign. Wednesday 29 January 2025

    A robin comforted me at my parents’ grave

  • Race to contain suspected bird flu outbreak among Thames Valley swans

  • The age of extinction
    ‘Nothing is sacred to them’: the race to save rare plants as Russian troops advance

  • Country diary
    Country diary: An unwelcome visit by Storm Chandra

1 February 2026

  • man snowblows sidewalk

    Bomb cyclone brings freezing temperatures and snow to millions in US

    About 150m faced cold weather advisories along eastern US, and two in North Carolina died in storm-related conditions

31 January 2026

  • Spent cones and purple catkins on an alder tree

    Country diary
    Country diary: Purple catkins light the way towards spring

    Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex: Look out for the alders – they’re remarkable trees and one of our first to come to life as winter recedes

30 January 2026

  • A wild European red fox in a private garden in Brighton

    Creature comforts in times of grief

  • People looking in the window of an estate agent in South Kensington, London

    Brief letters
    Artists can’t buy into these fantasy houses

  • Australian author Jackie French at the creek outside her home in the Araluen Valley, New South Wales.

    Australia's best children's picture book
    ‘Her name was Mothball and she changed my life’: the true story behind Diary of a Wombat

  • A rescued young owl in Costa Rica. This beautiful owl named 'Gandolf' was brought into

    The week in wildlife
    Week in wildlife: a rescued owl, a brave blackbird and Fukushima boar babies

    Gallery19

  • Reform UK enlists Boris Johnson ally to write party nature policies

  • Rare butterflies bounce back after landowners in Wales cut back on flailing hedges

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