Poaching, trafficking, insurgencies and traditional medicine all threaten the central African primates, but a rehabilitation centre offers a haven in Cameroon
Every morning in central Cameroon, the primatologist Sheri Speede wakes to a daunting task. At the Sanaga-Yong sanctuary, which she founded in 1999, there are 75 chimpanzees to feed four times a day and monitor for physical or behavioural issues.
Of those, more than 30 need to be given routine birth-control medications, four are babies requiring round-the-clock care, and two are rowdy teenagers currently being integrated into new social groups.
Veterinarian Sheri Speede at her Sanaga-Yong sanctuary, which is home to 75 chimpanzees
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Breaking Waves: Ocean News
11/15/2026 - 07:00
11/15/2026 - 03:00
Dutch designer sets up an app to help fellow enthusiasts find the great trees of the world
While most people spend their holidays sightseeing or lazing by a pool, Hidde Burgmans would rather seek out special trees.
While not an expert in the subject, the 37-year-old from Baarn in the Netherlands has developed what he cheerfully admits is something of an obsession. He even managed to propose to his girlfriend, Nadia Roeleveld, under a particularly special cedar in Japan: “My fiancee always laughs, because she’s like, ‘OK, we have to make a detour again because Hidde found another big tree’.”
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11/15/2026 - 00:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 15 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00254-6
Uptake, application and impact of an open access platform for investigating global marine fishing activity
11/14/2026 - 11:13
Civil society campaigners form protective cordon around LGBTQ+ campaigners as they unfurl flags and placards
Queer and gay protesters defied a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in Turkey to lead a civil society climate march on Saturday in the city hosting this year’s UN climate summit.
Turkey’s LGBTQ+ groups have faced increased persecution since September, with police targeting activists in their homes or at the offices of the NGOs that advocate for their rights.
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11/14/2026 - 09:00
Two centuries after the expedition, Indigenous students are conducting a new wildlife survey along the route
In 1804, when Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their Corps of Discovery to explore the newly acquired land west of the Mississippi, the president’s primary aim was political: Americans needed to establish presence, power and trade routes in these territories before the Europeans beat them to it.
But Jefferson, an ardent naturalist, had a secondary agenda. He ordered that the expedition also survey the flora and fauna of these landscapes. On their two-year jaunt across the western half of the country, Lewis and Clark kept meticulous journals of the animals and plants they encountered: bison, horned lizards, sage grouse, prairie dogs, wild licorice and catfish, among them. These observations were pivotal in shaping an early understanding of North American biodiversity.
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11/14/2026 - 08:00
Questions remain about reason for leak, safety of drinking water and where salt can be sourced for roads during winter
When water last month began gushing through a crack in the ceiling of a Morton Salt mine in Ohio, the company had only one option: shut the mine down for good.
For locals in and around Fairport Harbor, it means the loss of 77 jobs; but for the wider region, which depends on its salt reserves to keep roads ice- and snow-free every winter, it could mean travel chaos.
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11/14/2026 - 08:00
People around the world have contended with unprecedented weather events and their fatal effects caused by the climate catastrophe
After the world’s hottest summer since records began in 1850, the death toll from extreme weather in 2026 is already in the high tens of thousands. That is a conservative estimate and is certain to rise much higher.
As Cop31 continues and scientists warn that climate breakdown may be accelerating, the Guardian looks back at a year of droughts, fires and floods as a reminder that, unless the world takes urgent action to cut emissions, this disastrous year will be one of the best of the rest of our lives.
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11/14/2026 - 06:00
Activists dumped rocks off Norfolk coast on site of Burnham-backed project in protest against seabed trawling
The giant offshore windfarms backed by Andy Burnham this week may face unexpected stumbling blocks after Greenpeace activists unwittingly dumped about 15 tonnes of boulders on to the site as part of a campaign against seabed trawling in the North Sea.
Greenpeace created the “boulder barrier” to safeguard harbour porpoises off the Norfolk coast by dropping giant stone blocks, each weighing up to 2 tonnes, on to the sea floor to prevent a method of fishing known as bottom trawling.
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Send us your questions about climate crisis and politics for the next Stateside guest: Bill McKibben
11/13/2026 - 15:23
Kai Wright of the Guardian podcast Stateside will speak with author and environmentalist Bill McKibben – and we’d like to hear your questions
Was the climate crisis one of your top political priorities during the midterm elections? We want to hear from you: what do you want political leaders to do about it in 2027?
Democrats will control the House and Senate in the new year, and they have a long list of priorities ahead of them. But it remains to be seen just how much they will focus on one of the most pressing issues of our times: the climate crisis. The UN declared this summer that, despite some progress, it is now “unavoidable” that the globe will heat past the point that scientists say will threaten human health. Despite these terrifying predictions, the US remains absent from global efforts to limit the impacts of the climate crisis.
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11/13/2026 - 13:00
The End of Everything is a novel for our age of permacrisis. Genre boundaries belong to the past
“Science fiction will never be Literature with a capital ‘L,’” began a New York Times review of Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake back in 2003. Now, the seemingly impossible has happened – M John Harrison’s The End of Everything is the first science fiction novel to win the Booker prize.
Fans have hailed this as a victory for a long-marginalised genre. The author himself was not so sure. “Writing science fiction is the last thing I want to do,” he said with characteristic iconoclasm at an event before the prize. The sci-fi v literary or “mainstream” fiction debate is as endless and battle-strewn as a fantasy saga. The late Ursula K Le Guin, a giant of the form, famously took Atwood to task for her reluctance to use the term science fiction for some of her novels, including Oryx and Crake: “She doesn’t want the literary bigots to shove her into the literary ghetto.” Harrison doesn’t want to break out of the ghetto; he wants to break it down. “I really hate categories, and I really hate being categorised,” he said.
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