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Environment

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

    Water pollution
    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

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

  • A badger in a cage being injected

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

  • Side by side comparison of Duncan and Helen Porter standing in front of the glacier in the two photos

    Climate crisis
    ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

  • Children clamber up logs on the Highfields Adventure Playground in Leicester

    Access to green space
    End of the adventure: council funding cuts imperil Leicester’s playgrounds

  • A few of the hundreds of pheasants Mark came across in Northumberland.

    Country diary
    If there’s such a thing as an unnatural bird, it’s this

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CO2 tracker

Spotlight

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

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

  • Juliane Diller in 1972, arriving at Frankfurt airport to live a more peaceful life in Germany

    A bolt of lightning struck my plane – and I plunged 3,000m into a rainforest

    • 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 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’

    • Beach parasols at Madonna del Ponte, near Fano

      ‘The Adriatic is becoming tropical’: Italian fishers struggle to adapt to warm sea

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documentaries
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The Winterkeeper

Steven Fuller has lived and worked at Yellowstone national park for the past 50 years, but now faces an uncertain future as the climate crisis intensifies

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Steven Fuller

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
  • 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
  • Tim Adams

    I swear by almighty river: an ancient practice is making a comeback in Britain’s courts

    Tim Adams
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The age of extinction

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

    Colombian guerrillas withdraw threat to disrupt UN biodiversity summit

  • 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
  • One of the largest elephant in in the world. Craig the super tusker just outside Amboseli national park in Kenya.

    Trophy hunting: can killing and conservation go hand in hand? - podcast

    A series of super tusker elephant killings has sparked a bitter international battle over trophy hunting and its controversial, often counterintuitive role in conservation. Biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston speaks to Amy Dickman, professor of wildlife conservation at the University of Oxford, about why this debate has become so divisive, and the complexities of allowing killing in conservation
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Seascape

  • 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

    • A Teahupo’o wave crashes down

      Point break? Why sharing its ‘secret’ wave with the Olympics could cost a tiny Tahitian village dear

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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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