In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the actor turned activist tells us about her ‘dooga dooga’ – and a childhood cassette tapeRead more Three Things interviewsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYael Stone scored her big break with her role as inmate Lorna Morello in the hit Netflix prison drama Orange Is the New Black. But...

Verse’s connection to nature can inspire awareness and hope amid the climate crisis, offering clarity beyond dataPoetry has a big debt to nature, its muse and source of metaphor for centuries. As the UN climate conference begins, it is time to pay it back. Poetry must give nature a voice to express its dire predicament. “I will rise,” declares the furious...

Food, fertiliser, fuel … seaweed has been a life force for centuries. On a coastal foraging trip in Pembrokeshire, we discover it’s now behind a new green initiative, tooI am lying in a hot bath filled with seaweed. After a week learning about the stuff, collecting it, drying it, eating it, feeling it slippery beneath my feet, this is the first time...

Annual bird survey suggests ‘particularly bad’ autumn on key migration route through city’s brightly lit skyscrapersAs fall bird migration nears its end in New York City, a troubling trend may be emerging: preliminary evidence suggest that more avians collided with buildings this season compared with last autumn.NYC Bird Alliance surveys suggest that...

A proposal to protect part of rural Wales has sparked a furious debate over who the countryside is forPlans to create a new Welsh national park stretching from the dunes of north-east Wales to the wild Berwyn mountains and the peaceful, wooded slopes of Lake Vyrnwy further south have captured the imagination of many ramblers, cyclists and other outdoor...

The region’s president responds to criticisms that he was slow to act by attacking the prime ministerThe sun still hadn’t risen on Tuesday 29 October when the mayor of Utiel, Ricardo Gabaldón, took another look at the warnings from Spain’s state meteorological office and ordered all the schools in the small Valencian town to close.“The warning early...