Developer wins award for helping save rare butterflies (Butterfly Conservation)

Antarctic seas richer in life than Galapagos Islands, study claims (The Guardian)

Venice sees worst flooding in 20 years (The Guardian)

Let's not shop till we drop (The Guardian)

How changes in daily routine may become second nature (The Guardian)

National Park consults on proposed conservation area boundary changes and character appraisals (New Forest National Park)  

Another Mini adventure, but this time with the sound off. And no back seat (The Guardian)

Go-ahead for giant wind farm (The Independent)

UK's seasonal starling flocks may disappear (The Guardian)

Heathrow runway decision delayed until 2009 (The Guardian)

Birdwatchers begin a search for slender-billed curlews (The Times)

2008 will be coolest year of the decade (The Guardian)

Michael McCarthy: Ireland rises up the pecking order (The Independent)

Venice flood fails to damp down fight over sea walls (The Guardian)

Simon O'Hagan: A day on which I have not cycled to or from work is a day on which something vital is missing (The Independent)

Exotic butterflies seek sanctuary in Britain (The Times)

Southern butterflies head up north (The Guardian)

Spread of imported fungal diseases poses threat to Britain's gardens (The Independent)

How handcuffs and bicycle locks were used to bring UK's third biggest airport to a standstill (The Guardian)

Heathrow next, warn activists who caused Stansted chaos (The Guardian)

Fifth of world's coral reefs dead, say marine scientists (The Guardian)

Rich nations must plan for floods, heat and drought now, warns panel (The Guardian)

Wetter and wilder: the signs of warming everywhere (The Guardian)

RSPB accused of 'cruelty' for scaring starlings away from aircraft (The Telegraph)

Birds of prey called in to rid Scottish Parliament of its pigeon problem (The Telegraph)

Farmers who poison still face subsidy cuts, warns Scottish minister (The Guardian)

Urban otters join foxes and squirrels in Britain's towns and cities (The Telegraph)

Bird lovers split over plan to bring back glorious killer of the skies (The Guardian)

Meet Britain's new army of young eco warriors (The Guardian)

Sir Ian Botham warns beaver plan could be catastrophic for salmon fishing (The Telegraph)

Work on butterflies and moths is more important than ever (Butterfly Conservation)

Green Future For England's Trees, Woods And Forests (Forestery Commission)

EU fish stocks at risk of collapse, warns leading scientist (The Guardian)

Government plan to increase number of tree-lined streets (The Telegraph)

World's oldest spider web found on beach (The Telegraph)

Corncrakes suffer severe decline after grant reforms for farmers (The Guardian)

Coolest year since 2000 but trend still shows global warming (The Guardian)

Obama breaks with Bush oil bosses and puts environment at top of agenda (The Guardian)

Minister apologises for police insect injuries (The Guardian)

Bottle deposit scheme could reduce litter and boost recycling (The Telegraph)

Change, but at what price? (The Guardian)

Baby beaver hand-reared for the first time in the UK (The Telegraph)

Conservation group to reconsider position on opencast mining (The Guardian)

Farmers to be paid for conserving landscapes (The Independent)

Hill farmers to be paid to maintain traditional landscape (The Telegraph)

Climate change: 'We need to unleash the power of the masses' (The Guardian)

Weather or not, we're getting warmer (The Guardian)

Ban bottled water (The Guardian)

Massive crackdown on the use of scores of toxic pesticides (The Independent)

Reeled in: EU plans to impose fish quotas on amateur sea anglers (The Times)

Stuff the turkey, fatten the robins (RSPB)

Persecution threat to hen harrier survival (The Guardian)

Gamekeepers 'kill off' last of hen harriers (The Independent)

Giant woodlice arrive in Britain for first time (The Telegraph)

Buzzing bees act as 'bodyguards' to protect plants from other insects (The Telegraph)

Activists ejected after presenting greenwash award to BP (The Telegraph)

Falcon responsible for Boeing 747 crash in Brussels (The Telegraph)

Enough is enough – Hen harrier killings (RSPB)

Lunacy clouds climate change policy (The Guardian)

Bold intentions for parliament that went up in smoke (The Guardian)

Government buildings emit more CO2 than all of Kenya (The Guardian)

Wild thing: boar menace Gloucestershire (The Independent)

Weather Eye: jet stream creates wet weather for 2008 (The Times)

Government watchdogs accused of lack of ambition in clean up of England's rivers (The Telegraph)

Baby hedgehogs saved from a homeless Christmas (The Telegraph)

Crocodile found in bath in London (The Telegraph)

Plantwatch (The Guardian)

The Green New Deal offers a Christmas message of hope (The Guardian)

White deer roam the forest (The Telegraph)

Has the hunt outfoxed the law? (The Telegraph)

National Trust abandons beach to erosion (The Telegraph)

Walking in the countryside is good for the brain as well as the body (The Telegraph)

How the weather affected Britain's wildlife in 2008 (The Guardian)

British wildlife may not survive third wet summer, warns National Trust (The Guardian)

Changing climate devastates UK species (The Independent)

Beauty spots to be surrendered to the sea (The Telegraph)

Pine martens return to England and Wales (The Telegraph)

Climate change takes its toll on British countryside (The Telegraph)

Dorset coast 'will be turned into lunar landscape by new Portland quarry' (The Telegraph)

If you go down to the woods... (The Times)

Just a year to save the hedgehog and house sparrow, warns Government's nature chief (The Telegraph)

Use lynx to cull deer, says top ecologist (The Independent)

British couple breaks bird-watching record after selling homes to fund trip (The Telegraph)

Shooting ban on seals 'needed to stop population dropping at alarming rate' (The Telegraph)

Breeding programme boosts endangered crayfish species (The Guardian)

Escaped beaver eats through trees after breakout from Dartmoor sanctuary (The Guardian)

Oak tree deaths herald new pest threat to traditional plants, Kew curator warns (The Telegraph)