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• ‘I never imagined we could buy an island’: how a community saved Mexico’s Galápagos

  30-12-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  When developers began circling Espíritu Santo island in the 1990s, a private conservation effort saw them off. But today the Unesco site faces a new threat: mass tourismOn a clear day over the Sea of Cortez, Espíritu Santo looks untouchable. Turquoise water laps at the shores of the island’s rocky coves; whale sharks cruise past snorkellers; seabirds caw over ancient cliffs. The pristine island and its Unesco-protected surroundings – informally called “Mexico&rsqu
  
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• Blue Origin astronaut reveals depression after 'tsunami of harassment'

  30-12-2025 13:26 via bbc.com
  Blue Origin's all-female crew, which included scientist Amanda Nguyen, was launched into space in April.
  
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• UK’s warmest spring on record led to rise in songbirds breeding, data shows

  30-12-2025 12:38 via theguardian.com
  Dry and warm 2025 spring gave glimmer of hope for threatened wild birds but many remain in long-term declineThe warmest and sunniest spring on record this year led to an increase in the breeding of some of Britain’s best-loved songbirds, data has shown.Scientists said the dry and warm spring had provided a glimmer of hope for threatened wild birds. In the 2025 breeding season, from May to August, there were higher than average breeding successes for 14 species including the chiffchaff, gar
  
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• ‘Zack is a phenomenal leader’: Siân Berry on the Green party’s next steps as membership doubles

  30-12-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Since Zack Polanski took over as leader, the party has doubled its membership and its four MPs want to take on Reform’s anger and build community spirit“Someone has to be out there making the narrative for social security. Someone has to fight the corrosive attitudes to people on benefits,” says Siân Berry, who has just finished her first year as a Green MP in the House of Commons.She is speaking to the Guardian in her Brighton constituency office, formerly occupied by th
  
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• Young Atlantic salmon seen in three English rivers for first time in a decade

  30-12-2025 10:27 via theguardian.com
  Species that is critically endangered in Britain is spotted in Mersey, Bollin and Goyt rivers in north-westYoung Atlantic salmon have been seen in three rivers in north-west England for the first time since 2015, marking a “significant environmental turnaround”.The salmon species was declared critically endangered in Britain in 2023 but fish have been spotted in the Mersey, Bollin and Goyt rivers, meaning they have successfully travelled from the Arctic Circle to spawn. Continue read
  
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• ‘There is a crack in everything’: capturing the dark of winter – in pictures

  30-12-2025 09:36 via theguardian.com
  How do you photograph darkness? A question Sarah Lee considers with her work as the nights draw in: ‘I’ve always been drawn to photographing the darkness as the winter months draw in after the clocks go back and we head towards the solstice. I wondered why that was given that the world itself seems so dark at the moment. I realised this year that it is not the darkness I’m photographing, but, rather, the light. Always the light.’ Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: Meet Houdini, the three-legged hedgehog who’s moved in for winter | Kate Bradbury

  30-12-2025 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Hove, East Sussex: I’ve had to create a halfway house for him, between the rescue centre and the wild. Only, he’s named after an escapologist for a reasonIn the dark, a three-legged hedgehog trundles clumsily by, gathering leaves to make his bed more comfortable, although apparently not comfortable enough to hibernate. This may be his eighth winter; hedgehogs lose pigment with age and his bright pink nose suggests he’s well over five – the average age of a wild hog. Excep
  
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• Great white sharks face extinction in Mediterranean, say researchers

  30-12-2025 02:15 via bbc.com
  Overfishing and illegal fishing are contributing to the loss of sharks, including great whites.
  
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