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Damien Gayle

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Damien Gayle is an environment correspondent for the Guardian. Twitter @damiengayle. Click here for Damien Gayle's public key

March 2026

  • Merlin bird, sitting in grass.

    UK’s smallest bird of prey among 200 species at risk of extinction, study finds

  • A catch of Atlantic mackerel piled up in a fish separator on board a pelagic trawler

    ‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters

  • Microglossum cyanobasis

    Striking it licky: rare tongue-shaped fungus found for first time in UK

  • Boxing Day Hunt annual meet in Chiddingstoneepaselect epa12612982 Riders participate in the Old Surrey Burstow and West Kent Boxing Day meet in Chiddingstone, Britain, 26 December 2025. Trail hunting is set to be banned in England and Wales as part of a new animal welfare strategy to be published by the UK government. Since the 2004 fox-hunting ban, modified hunts have taken place using scented trails for the animals to follow. Hunting with horses and hounds is a Boxing Day tradition in rural areas EPA/NEIL HALL

    Labour vows to ban trail hunting as it opens public consultation

  • Israel used white phosphorus to scorch earth in south Lebanon, researcher says

  • Middle East crisis live
    Strike in Iraq reportedly kills seven fighters – as it happened

  • Shooting restricted for six British wild birds to halt population decline

  • Tehran’s toxic cloud: satellite images show oily fires burned for days

  • Middle East crisis live
    Projectile strikes vessel off coast of UAE - as it happened

  • 5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds

  • Down to Earth newsletter
    From black rain to marine pollution, the war in Iran is an environmental disaster

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  • Middle East crisis live
    Israel denies ‘dragging’ US into war – as it happened

  • Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds

  • Middle East crisis live
    UAE reopens airspace after Iran attack – as it happened

  • Middle East crisis live
    Top Iranian nuclear scientists killed, Israel says – as it happened

  • Middle East crisis live
    US orders petroleum reserve release in bid to calm markets – as it happened

  • ‘Severe water stress’: why desalination plants are the Gulf’s greatest weakness

  • US politics live with Shrai Popat
    Democrat blasts Trump’s ‘incoherent’ Iran strategy after Pentagon says 140 US service members wounded in operation – as it happened

  • Middle East crisis live
    Five killed in strikes on Lebanon, health ministry reports – as it happened

  • Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn

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