Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
ONCE very rare in British waters, just this winter we have seen a pod of 10 sperm whales and several smaller pods and some individuals washed up dead on our beaches.
The pod of 10 finally beached between Tunstall and Withernsea in East Yorkshire.
The main reason for so many whale sightings appears to be huge stocks of various species of squid being lured from their normal north Atlantic homes into the North Sea by increasingly warm sea temperatures caused by climate change.
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
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



