'Dark fleets' brought to light by world-first ocean map For the price of a working internet connection, conservationists and the maritime-curious will get an almost real-time look at global fishing activities. AAP · Jun 18
Heathrow third runway likely to harm health of millions nearby, official report warns Expansion could also hit access to housing, education, healthcare, open spaces and transport, analysis says The Guardian - UK · Jun 18
‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds Top 10% generate climate and biodiversity damage bill that exceeds economies of most countries, say researchers The Guardian - UK · Jun 18
Amber health alerts issued as forecasters warn of ‘humid and muggy’ heatwave It comes as forecasters have predicted the incoming heatwave could feel even hotter than that experienced in May. Evening Standard · Jun 18
France among 15 countries to pledge to target illegal fishing with shared data France is among 15 countries to have signed the Mombasa Declaration, unveiled at the Our Ocean Conference held in the Kenyan port city this week. The global agreement, aimed at combatting illegal and destructive fishing, commits countries to improved data collection and sharing of information on fishing vessels. Radio France Internationale · Jun 18
Tell us: how do you interact with the UK native wild birds in your local area? We’d like to hear from people in the UK about how their local bird populations are faring, and what they mean to them The Guardian - UK · Jun 18
We would like to hear your memories of the Major oak in Sherwood Forest Did you visit the famed tree? Did you take photos of it? Please share them with us The Guardian - UK · Jun 18
‘The sea took everything away’: how Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is disappearing beneath the waves More than half of Ayetoro – a Christian utopia founded in the 1940s – has been lost to the ocean, and its remaining people are running out of options The Guardian - UK · Jun 18
Cambridge experts recreate 336-year-old garden to commemorate ‘father of natural history’ John Ray, 17th-century botanist who coined words petal and pollen, was a tutor at Cambridge when he created his first garden The Guardian - UK · Jun 18
A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt The Guardian - UK · Jun 18
FED:'Sobering': flu strain kills thousands of seal pups A devastating strain of bird flu has wiped out more than 75 per cent of the southern elephant seal pup population on a remote sub-Antarctic island. AAP · Jun 18
'Sobering': flu strain kills thousands of seal pups A devastating strain of bird flu has wiped out more than 75 per cent of the southern elephant seal pup population on a remote sub-Antarctic island. AAP · Jun 18
More than 13,000 seal pups die on remote Australian island amid bird flu outbreak Testing confirms spread of deadly H5N1 virus on the subantarctic Heard Island, about 4,000km south-west of Perth The Guardian - AU · Jun 18
Country diary: Watching the ruffs strut like ludicrous Walter Raleighs Blackwater Estuary, Essex: Near a vast sweep of flats and creeks, one small pool has become a destination for both me and a parade of shore birds The Guardian - UK · Jun 18
AAP · Jun 18 The Meru Eco Tourism Week 4th Edition "Tourism as a Force for Good: Regenerating Bali Together" DENPASAR, Indonesia, June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Eco Tourism Bali, together with The Meru Sanur, the Wonderful Indonesia Sustainable Tourism Industry Forum (WI-STIF), and ACT! Project, in collaboration with Katadata and Katadata Green as official media partners, officially launched The Meru Eco Tourism Week 4th Edition at the Bali Beach…
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17 ‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies Nottinghamshire tree, one of Europe’s oldest and largest, fails to produce leaves after being stressed by series of hot, dry summers
Evening Standard · Jun 17 Archaeologists unearth 5,000-year-old ‘prototype’ for Stonehenge solstice stones The site a few miles from Stonehenge predates the famous stone circle by around 500 years, experts say.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17 Honeybees make specialised ‘baby food’ to give larvae balanced diet, study says Researchers also discover bees can adjust their diets when pollen sources do not provide healthy level of nutrients
The Guardian - US · Jun 17 Okra up north: how a forgotten heirloom travelled the African diaspora to Toronto Okra holds a special place in many African-descended communities, and a Canadian farmer with Jamaican roots is growing a very old variety
Evening Standard · Jun 17 Pretty rubbish? Dress made from recycled bags-for-life highlights climate change It will be shown during the Edinburgh Climate Festival on June 27.
Evening Standard · Jun 17 Heatwave forecast for parts of UK as some areas could be hotter than Barbados Some areas in the south and southeast of England are likely to see heatwave criteria met by Saturday and more widely on Sunday, as 32C could be hit.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17 Rising temperatures may increase flood risk through river ‘whiplash’, study finds Sudden shifts from wet to dry weather, or vice versa, may foil typical drought- and flood-prevention measures
The Guardian - US · Jun 17 US public still favours action on climate change despite Trump’s fossil fuel drive Two-thirds of Americans say they are worried about climate but level of media coverage does not reflect this
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17 Campaigner threatened with prosecution by Environment Agency after waterway cleanup Paul Powlesland told he acted illegally after organising volunteers to remove litter, weed and silt from River Roding
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17 ‘I don’t like being stuck in an office’: the young people helping plant a ring of trees around London London Tree Ring project aims to create corridors of plant and animal life around the city to strengthen its biodiversity