Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
FOR ALL of us the virus that the World Health Organisation officially names in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) as “Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” has dominated the way we live.
Meanwhile the natural world around us has carried on with its own complicated life patterns, with a mix of good news stories and some disasters. I’ve mentioned many of them in my weekly Ramblings.
There is no doubt that our climate catastrophe has delivered challenges just as serious for the natural world as Covid is for us humans.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
MAT COWARD presents a peculiar cabbage that will only do its bodybuilding once the summer dies down
ALEX DITTRICH hitches a ride on a jaw-dropping tour of the parasite world
Nature's self-reconstruction is both intriguing and beneficial and as such merits human protection, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT



