It turns out long-held resentments exist even in the animal kingdom. Does that mean they hold an evolutionary advantage?The best thing that happened to me during the whole of the pandemic was a story on the internet. An Oregon resident, furloughed, saw on a daytime nature documentary that, if you fed crows, they would bring you small gifts. Curious,...

Thousands of small farms have closed according to analysis of official but opaque data from EU member states‘We didn’t realise how hard it is’: small farmers in Europe struggle to get byThe European Union gave generous farming subsidies to the companies of more than a dozen billionaires between 2018 and 2021, the Guardian can reveal, including companies...

Pedro Sánchez orders largest peacetime troop deployment to deal with flooding that has killed 211 peopleSpain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has ordered the country’s largest peacetime military deployment, announcing that 10,000 troops and police officers will be drafted in to help deal with the aftermath of this week’s devastating floods, which have...

Conservation summit agrees global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics and stronger indigenous representation, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promisesA global summit on halting the destruction of nature ended in disarray on Saturday, with some breakthroughs but key issues left unresolved.Governments have been meeting in Cali, Colombia,...

SunDrive hopes its copper-based solar cell can reach commercial scale in partnership with global panel producer TrinaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIf an Australian startup gets its way, the silver lining in the global solar boom will become a copper one – before reserves...

The climate change minister is ‘disturbed’ by rising temperatures and increasingly unnatural natural disasters – but that’s what gets him out of bed every dayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn Spain, more than 200 people have been killed after the deadliest floods in the...