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Teenage girl standing with her back to the camera, looking towards a wildfire burning across a landscape in the distance.

When the warning sounds, concern is not hysteria

6 September 2026

Yellow wagtail, with his next meal in his beak - it looks like at least two daddy-long-legs squished together. His breast and underparts are bright yellow, his wings greenish brown and his head blue-grey. His tail is at least a third of his overall length.

Miracle recovery of Norfolk heath after decade of rewilding

Yellow-horned poppy, Suffolk. The bright yellow flower and its foliage are growing on a shingle beach, and we can just see the see over the ridge in the shingle beyond it.

Our rare and fragile Suffolk shingle beaches

View looking down a bone dry river bed with cracked ground.

Wildlife trusts, grazing animals and the challenge of drought

Image of an industrial battery energy storage facility featuring large white containerised battery units, open server-like racks, a high-voltage transformer, and wind turbines operating in the background at sunset.

Our renewable future: batteries to the rescue

Image showing the medal and certificate for the Sydney Long Memorial award, with inset photos of Alice Liddle and Carl Chapman

Norfolk conservationists honoured as nature faces a difficult summer

A rare Turkestan Shrike, a small bird - gray-backed and white-bellied, with a black mask and a rusty tail and crown - sitting on a branch

A warning written in ash – a threat to our world

Two sand martins on a sandy cliff face.

Nature reserve brings new hope for declining sand martins

Crescent sun with the moon passing over the sun .

East Anglia rejoices in stunning solar eclipse

Barn owl on Middlewick. The owl is flying low above brown grasses, wings outstretched at a sharp angle, and the face turned to stare straight at the camera. A low sun is lighting up its wing feathers.

Wildfires: do we love our wild spaces too much?

New footbridge between Needham and Stowmarket. Inset: the waymarker design for the Gipping Valley River Path

A new footpath in Suffolk along the Gipping

The robin is sitting on a bare branch in a thicket, beak wide open as he sings.

The hidden bias in bird research that impacts conservation

Composite image shows a Suffolk fire-fighter tackling the blaze at Dunwich Heath. Inset are small images of birds that next at the heath in summer

What we’ve lost at Dunwich Heath

Firecrest bird with striking golden yellow crest on top of its head.

Breeding bird trends highlight challenges and hope for songbirds

A row of terraced houses each with solar panels visible on each roof.

‘We will not be closing’

Small shorebird with brown striped plumage, long yellow legs, and bright yellow eye marching on dry, pine-needle ground.

Norfolk: rare bird could scupper asylum-seeker camp

A group of children in a hot classroom looking uncomfortable and distracted

New school safeguarding guidance has a climate blind spot

Depleted numbers at a climate protest, Westminster. A banner strung between traffic lights says 'Rebel against climate chaos"; Four activists are sitting on the ground in front of it, and another 2 or 3 are standing nearby. People are walking past without taking much notice.

Is no one concerned about the climate any longer?

Urban park in Amsterdam. The park is an avenue with roads either side and a wide footpath between edges in between. There are circular benches around the trunks of the two mature trees in the foreground, and smaller benches along the path under smaller trees.

Shade, cooling and survival: why we need more trees

Disposable BBQs dumped at Chafford. The outdoor picnic table is on a patch of sandy ground and has been painted light blue. The paint has been melted by the BBQs place on it, and one of the used BBQs is still there and is now mangled aluminium.

Vandalism, fly tipping and fires: Why Essex nature reserves need your help now

Two side-by-side maps compare European summer temperature anomalies for 1976 and 2025. The 1976 map shows mixed warm and cool regions, while the 2025 map shows widespread red shading across much of Europe, indicating warmer-than-average conditions.

Schools need more than nostalgia to cope with heatwaves

A swift looking out from a crevice in the Hunstanton cliff rock face

No nest, no scream: why swifts need our help

Aerial image of King's Lynn with an inset photo of Cllr Rob Colwell

Letter: Reform’s motion was the wrong answer to a real problem

Interior view of the main council chamber at Kings Lynn shows a huge triple window of stone and glass at one end

Heatwave halts Reform bid to scrap climate emergency

EV charging, The lead is plugged into the car's socket.

The road less taxed: EVs to be taxed more

Large car park in Australia with solar structures over the cars, keeping them in shade.

As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Electric vehicle charging at Tesco

Analysis: UK’s EV drivers are now saving £1,100 each a year – and £3bn in total

Removing Himalayan balsam from the banks of the River Gipping. About 8 people are spread out along the river bank uprooting balsam plants. They are wearing yellow or orange hi-viz garments.

Himalayan balsam: an eradication challenge

A heat map of the world showing red in many places, but there is a large 'blue blob' just south of Greenland

The Atlantic’s ‘blue blob’ and Britain’s climate

A duck and ten ducklings crossing a road

Why I want to help save ducklings

John Packman & Lynsey Skeates with the Sycamore Gap sapling

From loss to legacy: Sycamore Gap takes root in the Broads

Row of wind turbines silhouetted against a large orange sunset on the horizon.

Constant renewable energy is beginning to look like a real possibility

Blue tit emerging from its nest in a tree

New survey provides snapshot of the Essex bird populations

Composite image of the exterior of Essex County Council with an inset of Cllr Peter Harris

Essex Reform scraps net zero – but what happens next?

Ariel view across Deepdale Farm looking towards the north sea

Politics of farming: juggling food security, nature and uncertainty

Nigel Farage campaigning ahead of the 2024 General Election

Reform in charge: what happens to local climate action now?

Image of flooded fields, close by and into distance with trees and hedges interspersed between the water

Alarm bells – Britain’s food system is vulnerable

Image of the Bank of England with overlays of wind turbines and a solar farm.

Banking on the future: the road to net zero

Image of the graphic for the podcast saying: "Heat! Camera! Action! Climbing out of the climate hole with host, Jules Pretty"

Getting out of the hole: how to save our world

Poo bag tied to a branch next to a pathway

The rage inspired by Britain’s hanging dog poo bags

Wasps crowding around red jam on a red surface. There are three lumps of jam, each surrounded by at least half a dozen wasps.

Uninvited but indispensable: how to live with wasps

Wasp on a yellow flower.

It’s time we welcomed the return of the wasp

Sir David Attenborough at the official opening of the Nature Discovery Park at Thurrock Thameside on the 11th May 2013.

An amazing Essex wildlife story with a David Attenborough connection

Taken at sunset the image shows the silhouette of an oil pump with wind-turbines in the background

Renewable energy is no longer just climate policy – it’s national security

Queen buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris). She is sitting in a garden in Ipswich on a pink pansy that has been sprayed with a mild sugar solution. Her tail is indeed buff, her body dark mahogany with an orange waistband, and the top of her abdomen is also orange.

What’s killing our bees – and how they fight back

Image of ten National Emergency Briefing experts sitting on a stage during the briefing in Westminster.

New emergency briefing warns UK climate risks are accelerating

Female toad

Learning to love toads

Parent greenfinch Feeding Its Chick on Branch

Rethinking bird feeding: how to help without harm

Image of Chris Packham, and the words "People's Emergency Briefing - Community Screening"

Climate briefing film comes to Beccles

Exterior view of Essex County Hall, Chelmsford

New investigation reveals Essex pension savers backing US gas expansion

Our power, our planet: simple ways we can all help save the Earth

A globe lying on grass with the sun shining on it, to represent Earth Day

Climate action advances fast in 2026: homes, water, nature and energy

Nightingale on a branch, which is covered with lichen. It's in a tree, and singing. It has mid-brown wings and back, and a pale smooth chest with a slightly darker and rougher bib. the bright orange beak is wide open.

The bird with the most beautiful song returns for the summer

East Anglia One windfarm

World’s largest offshore wind farm is getting plugged in

Dalmatian pelican in Schönbrunn zoo. Its mane is scruffy, and the lower beak is bright red, to show that it is ready to mate. We can see the slightly tidier head of another pelican in the foreground.

‘Dishevelled’ immigrants – with a wingspan of 3 metres?

Alina Sandu with Community Garden volunteers. Alina is front right, taking the photo, and behind her are 8 volunteers standing on grass, with a stand of trees behind them and beyond that a fence and then a terrace of houses.

Norwich Community Gardens Festival: gardening all over the city

A man driving a jetski near a beach. He has recently made a sharp turn, as his jetski's wake is just beyond him, between him and the beach, which is about 50m away.

Urgent: have your say on “reckless” Mersea Island jet ski riders

Aerial view of the Blickling estate

Water, water everywhere: the climate challenge for Blickling Hall

A pile of litter Nick has picked up

Eco-Nick – the life and times of a litterpicker

Rows of pylons going into the distance

East Anglia under siege: the battle to save our countryside

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