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Caring for the planet we share
This shop currently serves customers in Ukraine only. While we are not taking orders from your region, we would like to leave you with something useful: a short note on why ecology matters today, and fresh green news from around the world.
Why ecology matters now
A healthy environment is not a side topic. Clean air, stable climate, living soils and safe water decide how we eat, work and raise children. In a world of long supply chains, every purchase still leaves a trace — energy, packaging, transport, waste. Choosing less harm is one of the few daily levers ordinary people actually have.
Ecology is also economics. Heatwaves, floods and drought already move prices, harvests and insurance. Protecting forests, rivers and biodiversity is cheaper than repairing collapsed systems later. Modern life can stay comfortable without treating the planet as an infinite dump.
Small habits add up: repair instead of replace, refuse needless plastic, eat closer to the season, walk or share a ride, and support brands that take materials and waste seriously. None of this needs perfection. It needs attention — and the will to keep nature habitable for the next generation.
Healthy ecosystems filter water, grow food and buffer floods better than concrete alone.
Reuse, repair and thoughtful packaging cut pollution long before recycling has to catch it.
Green news from around the world
Headlines from public environmental RSS feeds. We do not edit the original stories.
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Burst pipe floods wildlife meadow for fourth time
Repeated flooding of a key conservation site in Oxfordshire leaves a charity frustrated.
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Week in wildlife: swimming pigs, circling sharks and a fox on the cricket pitch
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
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The world’s rivers are at breaking point. Can we save them before it is too late?
In this week’s newsletter: As the Guardian launches a year-long project, Our Rivers, we take stock of the issues facing waterways around the worldDon’t get Down to Earth deliver…
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Nebula image wins Royal Observatory competition
Ali Alobaidly is named Astronomy Photographer of the Year for his image of the Shark Nebula.
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Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds
Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scoresImprovements in air pollution are leading to brighter, smarter t…
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Now exempt from EU deforestation rules, leather industry moves to repair reputation
PARIS — The prestigious Maison de la Chimie in central Paris hummed with confidence as leather representatives gathered to discuss the industry’s next steps to tackle what they …
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Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan
JAKARTA — Nearly a year after what scientists describe as one of the most severe ecological shocks ever documented for the world’s rarest great ape species, there is still no co…
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See tiny organisms on show in microscopic video competition
The winning video features tiny hair-like structures, called cilia, in the airways of a child with a rare genetic disease.
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‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to dateAsian government…
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New wild cat species discovered - with only one known living member
A spotted wildcat long mistaken for relatives has been identified as a new species in Bolivia.
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Mekong’s Irrawaddy dolphins find cautious hope amid a river in crisis
KAMPI, Cambodia — At nine in the morning, the sun beats down on the Mekong River as Heang Koeurn turns off the motor of his boat and bobs on the water. He has done this every mo…
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Might the UK and US joining their AI forces help solve nuclear fusion?
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Heavy rain and floods in northern Vietnam submerge homes and disrupt economy
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Heavy rain caused flooding across parts of northern Vietnam on Thursday, disrupting travel, inundating homes and pushing several rivers above dangerous lev…
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The Guardian view on the Nepal-Tibet floods: a spur to action on climate | Editorial
New research links last month’s disaster to fossil fuel pollution. Supporting disaster-hit countries must be at the centre of climate politicsFollowing a familiar pattern, cover…
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Repeat offender fined for searching for gold in protected river
Brian Wright, 68, from Henley-upon-Thames, was caught gold panning on a protected river in north Wales.
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Scientists are fighting a longer mosquito season with ... more mosquitoes
Nearly half a million more of the insects are being released in California – they’re all male and carry a bacteriumThe box arrived in the San Gabriel Valley, just east of Los An…
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Fire, ice and family: Australia’s 2026 Bowness photography prize – in pictures
Here are 26 images by the shortlisted artists who submitted works for the 21st William and Winifred Bowness photography prize.Tamara Dean has been named the winner. The judges s…
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El Niño and global heating pushes water vapour in Earth’s atmosphere to record levels in August
Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists sayThe planet’s atmosphere held more water vapour in August than any other mon…