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Environment

  • a hiker in red using cables to climb up a steep mountain

    The number of hikers visiting US national parks is increasing. So is the challenge of keeping them safe

    The death of a young woman falling from the famous – and ever more popular – Half Dome in Yosemite ignites debate
  • an aerial view of burned out buildings as the sun glows

    Arsenic and old sugarcane: cleaning up Hawaii in the fallout from wildfires

  • a group of people recover a long dead fish, some swimming and one on a kayak

    ‘Strange and mysterious’: rarely seen, 12ft-long oarfish found in waters off San Diego

  • a large yellow construction vehicle lowers a scooper into the sand on a beach

    Beach battle in Malibu as billionaire accused of stealing sand for $30m home

  • Vials containing PFAS samples sit in a tray, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati. The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced its first-ever limits for several common types of PFAS, the so-called "forever chemicals," in drinking water. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

    Air and rain samples in Detroit show high levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’

  • silhouettes of people cooling off in a fountain outside

    Last month marked the world’s hottest July on record, US scientists say

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CO2 tracker

Latest news

  • The trial at Kerwee Feedlot involved feeding a commercial Asparagopsis supplement in the form of an infused canola oil over 200 days

    Feeding seaweed supplement to cattle halved methane emissions in Australian feedlot, study finds

  • The Milky Way over Skelton tower on the North York Moors.

    Out with beach days, in with star-gazing: how holidays turned nocturnal

    Travel companies are reporting a surge of interest in people wanting to get away from light pollution and into nature
  • Dr Diana Warner, with short hair and in a dress with an art deco pattern, stands in the grass next to a bench, looking left

    ‘It’s sometimes right to disobey laws’: Doctor suspended for Insulate Britain protests speaks out

    Convicted of non-violent offences in Insulate Britain action, Dr Diana Warner is second GP to have licence suspended, which a medical tribunal ruled could damage patient trust
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Big oil uncovered

  • workers in white hazmat suits and reflective vests clean up a beach

    Harris is ‘perfect person’ to prosecute big oil, climate advocates say

  • A Guardian collage of images from industry 1970s industry periodical Marathon World published by a corporate predecessor of Marathon Petroleum

    US oil company ran 1977 article predicting climate crisis could cause starvation

  • Two men in hard hats, jumpsuits and heavy boots work on dark purple painted pipes above, with pink floppy tubes and hard blue tubes.

    Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill

  • An underwater view of a lot of plastic garbage, including a plastic bag, a plastic bottle and small bits of plastic.

    Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws – study

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America's dirty divide

  • FILE PHOTO: Workers lift a solar panel onto a roof during a residential solar installation in Scripps Ranch, San Diego, California, U.S. October 14, 2016. Picture taken October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

    Tax credits in Biden’s landmark climate law disproportionately benefit well-off

  • A sprawling gas plant sits on the water

    Liquefied natural gas pollution linked to 60 premature US deaths a year – report

  • close-up of person wearing orange hat drinking blue liquid from plastic bottle

    US workers launch Heat Week to fight for ‘the right to water, shade and rest’

  • A child climbs on a play ladder

    Cosy, quiet and efficient: how New York is pioneering eco-friendly apartments

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Our unequal earth

  • A gray-haired, balding man grins as children hug him.

    Free meals v hungry children: is this the school lunch election?

    Marcus Weaver-Hightower
  • A close-up of a woman washing a handful of cherries under the sink

    Peel those apples: washing produce doesn’t remove pesticides, study finds

  • illustration of a woman looking a table of desserts, a glucose monitor and pills

    Gimme some sugar: a diabetic on love, loss and longing for pound cake

  • A man wearing a hat, denim shirt, and gloves sits on a tractor on farmland

    US pays $2bn to Black and minority farmers after years of discrimination

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The age of extinction

  • A peacock butterfly

    What’s happened to all the butterflies? – podcast

  • A small tortoiseshell butterfly on lavender

    ‘This year has been dead’: where have Britain’s insects gone?

    Surveys suggest that wet weather and habitat deterioration are among the causes of devastating population declines, but there are ways to help
  • A stealthy jaguar seems to crouch behind a flower on the bank of a waterway.

    ‘Losing Noah’s Ark’: Brazil’s plan to turn the Pantanal into waterway threatens world’s biggest wetland

    Hidrovia project to dredge Paraguay River and build ports may destroy vast biodiversity and refuge of jaguars, giant otters and armadillos – and an age-old riverine way of life
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Seascape

  • A woman in snorkelling gear swimming above clam shells on the sea floor

    ‘I am so happy to see them!’: fan mussels are back in Europe’s waters – but can scientists keep them alive?

  • Boys, one pushing a wheelbarrow, carry big plastic containers to collect water, Vanuatu.

    ‘The wells are salty’: how the invading ocean is contaminating Vanuatu’s water

    • The global network of cables that powers the internet is under increasing threat

      What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet

    • Two newborn olive ridley sea turtles seen from above make their way across the sand towards the sea. Dehiwala beach, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

      ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians

    • Phalanxes of umbrellas on the beach at Gaeta, a small city on the border between Campania and Lazio regions, as seen from the air.

      Sea, sand and sky-high fees: Italians tussle over their right to lie on the beach

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Opinion

  • Graham Readfearn

    Fallout from Woodside’s birthday bash shows Australia is far from united in climate fight

    Graham Readfearn
  • A flare burns natural gas at an oil well

    Trump would pull out of Paris climate treaty again – and Harris faces tough choices

    Barry Eichengreen
  • George Monbiot

    For those with power and rich donors – the AC is always on, even if it’s melting outside

    George Monbiot
  • Adam Morton

    Western Australia’s EPA has made a big call on a major gas expansion. Will state and federal governments back it up?

    Adam Morton
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Multimedia

  • Rarely seen deep-sea fish washes up in California – video

  • A Rutland osprey swooping down to grab a fish

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a hunting osprey, a golf-loving snake and a hedgehog in a war zone

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Indian woman in a yellow sari picks fruit from a tree with few leaves in an arid landscape.

    Pushing the boundaries: Indian women in a man’s world – in pictures

    A Thousand Thorns is a project by photographer Deepti Asthana documenting women’s changing aspirations in rural India through the story of two young female forest guards in Rajasthan’s Thar desert. Theirs is a scenario playing out in millions of homes – of the fight for equality and independence in a deeply patriarchal society
  • The group says the logging in a state-owned forest in Queensland is taking place less than 3km from a high-density population group of endangered greater gliders

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    Conservation group releases video showing logging near endangered greater gliders – video

  • Juvenile Coyote in Oregon, Elkton, USA - 31 Jul 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14614187d) A juvenile coyote hunts as dusk falls on a grassy hillside on a farm near Elkton in southwestern Oregon. Their primary diet is made up of small rodents, but coyotes are opportunistic and will consume a vast array of foods including birds and insects, fruit and vegetables, human garbage and compost, outdoor pet food and small free-roaming pets. Juvenile Coyote in Oregon, Elkton, USA - 31 Jul 2024

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a soggy robin, a breaching whale and a coyote on the hunt

  • A new study is mapping the secrets to the remarkably steady flight of kestrels and could inform future drone designs and help achieve steadier flight in fixed wing aircraft

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    How the stunning and steady flight of the kestrel is informing the future of drone design – video

  • A man slides on flood water in a residential street

    Tropical Storm Debby deluges coastal US cities – in pictures

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