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Environment

  • Fragmented illustration of a green melting glacier and yellow prison building

    In Alaska, advocates say reducing prison population is a key climate strategy

    Ageing correctional centers and the people within are threatened by floods, extreme heat, and building collapses due to snowfall and thawing permafrost
  • piles of ore on ground

    ‘Haul no!’: tribes protest uranium mine trucking ore through Navajo Nation

  • man wearing suit and tie stands behind microphone and podium

    Trump says he has ‘no choice’ but to back EVs after Musk endorsement

  • A woman wearing a dark purple blazer speaks at a podium with a blue background reading 'Vice President Kamala Harris.'

    Harris helped pass one of the strongest climate laws. Her policies don’t stop there

    Leah C Stokes
  • a side-by-side image of Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise

    Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress

  • A blonde woman wearing a black T-shirt and a gray and black hat lifts up the lid to a dumpster and peers in

    How dumpster diving went from taboo to trendy: ‘It’s a treasure hunt’

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Latest news

  • The vulnerable pig-nosed turtle.

    Pig-nosed turtle and Pugh’s frog among new species added to Australia’s endangered species list

  • Pollution and plant debris on the River Misbourne near the village of Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire

    Almost 500 chemicals found in England’s rivers and groundwater

    More than half classed as very toxic, toxic or harmful to aquatic life, with 20 categorised as ‘substances of very high concern’
  • Sewage floats on the River Thames in Datchet, Berkshire, in April

    UK rivers and beaches have been heaped with pollution for years – when will we talk about restoration?

    The penalties reflect the failings of the Environment Agency and Ofwat as much as the water companies
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Big oil uncovered

  • 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

  • A very thin woman raises a plastic bottle to her lips, in full sun with a blue tarp behind her.

    Lawyers could charge big oil with homicide after 2023 Arizona heatwave

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America's dirty divide

  • A man in an orange shirt takes off his construction helmet in order to splash water on his head in a public fountain

    ‘Your body is completely drained’: US workers toil in heatwaves with no protections

  • a woman sits on her front porch

    Era of rapidly intensifying hurricanes throws evacuation plans into disarray

  • Paramedics wheel a person on a stretcher from an ambulance into a hospital

    Asphalt burns, delirium, body bags: extreme heat overwhelms ERs across US

  • people hold green, black and yellow signs as person standing in front of podium speaks

    Car camping and fighting wildfires: what are the new US climate jobs?

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Our unequal earth

  • 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

  • a man in a suit and tie holds up a large block of cheese

    Orange, edible and in a block: a short history of US ‘guv’ment’ cheese

  • a woman holds a tote bag and a reusable water bottle

    Marketing a tote bag as reusable is silly. Let’s say no to more stuff

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The age of extinction

  • A badger in a cage being injected

    Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds

  • A guerrilla with a machine gun wearing a Farc-EP armband.

    Colombian guerrillas withdraw threat to disrupt UN biodiversity summit

    Central General Staff militant group previously said Cop16 event scheduled for October in Cali ‘would fail’
  • A young black woman with a pangolin sitting on her shoulder smiles at the camera

    ‘They are so handsome’: the unusual day in the life of a pangolin carer

    At a wildlife centre in Mozambique, trafficked animals are fed, nursed, taken for walks and eventually released back to the wild. Vet Mércia Ângela describes what it’s like to bond with these rare and charismatic mammals
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Seascape

  • Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, poses for a portrait at with The HIPPO project at Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation. Photo by Lauren DeCicca for The Guardian

    How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution

  • A woman and five girls in formal dress standing in a line waving

    Sea change: How the Herring Queen brought promise and joy to a small Scottish town

    • A long thin atoll around a lagoon

      Inside the battle for top job that will decide the future of deep-sea mining

    • A white plastic bag on a beach with the sea behind

      Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches down 80% since charge introduced

    • Close up of a saltwater crocodile's eye in the Mangroves

      Roots and refuge: the year’s best mangrove images – in pictures

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Opinion

  • 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
  • Helen Sullivan

    A naked mole rat: like termites, they have one almost endlessly pregnant queen

    Helen Sullivan
  • Graham Readfearn

    Dutton praises Canada to sell nuclear plan. But does Ontario really have cheaper power?

    Graham Readfearn
  • Helen Sullivan

    A hairy caterpillar: a ginger toupee, twitching cartoonishly

    Helen Sullivan
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Multimedia

  • A fox runs through flames

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a feisty sea lion, a retiring elephant and a fleeing fox

  • A pair of harvest mice greet each other on wheat stems in Dorset, UK

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: an escaped tortoise, friendly harvest mice and a giraffe on the move

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Storm unleashes torrential rain and strong winds that have claimed at least three lives and forced authorities to shut schools and offices

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    Typhoon Gaemi makes landfall in Taiwan and brings floods to Manila – video

    Storm unleashes torrential rain and strong winds that have claimed at least three lives and forced authorities to shut schools and offices
  • A boy touches a baby giraffe in western Kenya

    Giraffe relocation in Kenya – in pictures

  • A seagull

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: warthog drama, a fox at the museum and our rarest whale

  • Timber-framed homes nestling in the rugged countryside of the Isle of Harris, Scotland

    Eco homes near the sea for sale in Great Britain – in pictures

  • The Canadian rapper Drake shared footage of his home submerged in flood water after storms hit Toronto

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    Record rainfall hits parts of Toronto – video

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