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What does the approaching El Niño mean for the world’s economies - and for us?

Andy Burnham, the prime minister and leader of the Labour Party, wants cheap, popular policies. Well, only seven per cent of voters support the current low tax on private jet fuel.

Deliblato Sands faces another existential test after the unprecedented 52-day wildfire.

August was world’s joint hottest month on record – scientists.

An anthropologist reflects on Great Nicobar’s ancient forests and Indigenous lifeways.

The world has a new way to make money from the Amazon. Indigenous peoples and traditional communities could find themselves serving a more hostile economy.

Chirpy Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane have new feather in their cap as The Book of Birds wins top award.

A global movement to recognise fungi is gaining momentum ahead of UN biodiversity talks at COP17.

The podcast Farmerama Radio is celebrating 10 years of regenerative farming, storytelling and community building.

'A great force of life is described with the accuracy of a naturalist and the lyricism of a poet.'

Development-planted trees have consistently shown to be faring poorly, according to recent surveys. 

Zack Polanski to stand in Holborn and St Pancras by-election left vacant by Sir Keir Starmer, the former prime minister.

Brazil is betting the Amazon can be protected by making forests economically valuable - but will commercial use stay within the ecological limits?

Environment secretary warns people in Britain to store food for weather emergencies.

What if humanity's greatest strength is not competition but cooperation? Kate Raworth in conversation with Jeremy Lent.