Week in wildlife – in pictures: a giant hamster, a mustachioed deer and a zebra on the run

Borrowdale rainforest in Lake District declared national nature reserve

Trigger-happy councils mowing down our spring flowers? There’s a better way to do things | Phineas Harper

Warming climate is turning rivers rusty with toxic metals

The flooded buildings of Porto Alegre, Brazil – in pictures

‘Never-ending’ UK rain made 10 times more likely by climate crisis, study says

Country diary: Gripped by the fledging of baby great tits | Kate Bradbury

Do heat pumps work at freezing temperatures?

’Shocking' and 'stupid': New Zealand man fined after attempting to 'body slam' an orca – video

Large-scale nuclear power station planned for Anglesey in Wales

Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave

Isle of Wight-size iceberg breaks from Antarctica

Gina Rinehart portrait saga: largesse comes at a peculiar cost for Australia’s swimmers

Does the farmer really want a wife? In the reality TV world, good farmers make bad husbands | Eliza Spencer

Does the farmer really want a wife? In the reality TV world, good farmers make bad husbands