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Environment

  • Bright orange and black photo, of a nighttime forested hillside ablaze, with three

    Heatwave scorching western US ups risk of hazardous fire conditions

    In Oregon and Washington, low humidity and powerful winds have put officials on alert for wildfire spread
  • a young girl holding a sign

    Democrats’ ‘climate hushing’ prompts activists to turn up the volume

  • a dam and reservoir

    Water cuts loom as US unveils long-awaited response to Colorado River crisis

  • Researcher Brett McBride leans from a boat to tag a large shark swimming alongside in blue water

    Huge great white spotted traveling off US and Canada as shark sightings surge

  • A shirtless teen boy with a shirtless man, arms across each other's shoulders, smiling on a beach.

    ‘I’m super proud of him’: father of teen lifeguard recounts dramatic ocean rescue

  • Protesters march down a city street carrying signs including one reading 'NOT WILLING TO TRADE CIVIL LIBERTY FOR FALSE SECURITY.'

    ‘It came out of real frustration’: the 90s activist network that set fires to save a burning planet

  • An industrial facility with metal stairs, pipes, and tanks behind a chain-link fence with a no trespassing sign

    US environmental groups urge EPA to reject new Pfas to cool datacenters

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Latest news

  • Lavender in a field in Worcestershire.

    Purple reign: how shade became British gardeners’ favourite

  • Carrot grower Rodger Hobson

    ‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops

  • A greater crested tern in flight

    First Australian mass mortality event suspected as deadly bird flu virus rapidly escalates among native birds

  • A wet Union Jack flag lies tangled in branches at the edge of murky green water

    Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM

America's dirty divide

  • Triptych photo composite of industrial equipment, a woman in glasses and cap and farmland.

    ‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

  • Sonora River polluted with sulfuric acid from copper mine leak in Mexico

    US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says

  • air pollution

    Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

  • A cityscape is seen in the foreground covered in smog with a large mountain seen in the background

    Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’

Our unequal earth

  • Split image shows a man in a suit on the left and red petri dishes with bacterial cultures on the right

    Trump’s deep public health cuts hinder response to record US cyclosporiasis outbreak

  • Composite image showing chicks on the left and a man holding a chicken on the right.

    ‘The silence was the worst part’: after culling his entire flock, US poultry farmer now fears bird flu

  • two women work in a garden

    Okra up north: how a forgotten heirloom travelled the African diaspora to Toronto

  • A student picks a milk carton for lunch to go with a sandwich, beans and fruit cup.

    Bananas could vanish from US school meals. Here’s why

The age of extinction

  • Cargo vessels and crude oil tankers anchored in the Gulf of Oman, awaiting the reopening of the strait of Hormuz.

    Ships stuck in strait of Hormuz pose ‘super-spreader’ biodiversity threat, scientists warn

  • A mahogany tree sapling in a nursery.

    Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America

  • An AI-generated image depicting a large black bird with bright orange beak sitting on an iceberg with the northern lights in the background. It is a fake image.

    AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk

  • Dino Martins holding a rainbow locust by the wings

    Sex-loving hookworms and other peculiar parasites: one man’s mission to champion nature’s villains

Seascape

  • A young man standing on a cliff holding a large piece of stone with four lines of fossilised bones that look like fingers as well as bigger bones further apart

    How one man’s near-death experience led to the discovery of the first Jurassic sea dragon in Wales

  • A boy and girl walk in the surf on a seafront promenade

    One year, 17 towns, dozens of voices: what we heard along the coast of England and Wales

  • Three sperm whales swimming just under the surface of the sea

    Sperm whales change ‘vowel’ sounds when boats are nearby, scientists discover

  • A naval officer holding a large military drone on the deck of a ship

    Robots, AI and drones: how the Dutch navy is using tech to transform its sea defences

Opinion

  • People stand at cardboard voting booths in a polling station, including an adult with a child

    The case for a blatantly discriminatory Australian voting system

    Bernard Keane
  • Alexander Hurst

    Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse

    Alexander Hurst
  • Bill McGuire

    Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder

    Bill McGuire
  • Cars travelling towards Manchester city centre

    The Guardian view on noise pollution: keep it down

Multimedia

  • A white-faced monkey with black fur holds a smaller monkey with similar features in a tree

    Week in wildlife: snub-nosed monkeys, amorous cobras and a milk-snatching fox

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