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Environment

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    Cut back your roses? Berkeley sets new rules for its most wildfire-prone areas

    Residents of California city’s high-risk areas will be required to remove plants within 5ft of homes under fire safety rules
  • a river bend with barges floating on the waterway.

    The great Mississippi tops list of most endangered rivers amid fears over Trump rollbacks

  • people hold a sign that reads 'a healthy home world is job #1 nothing works without it there is no planet b'

    Green groups sue Trump administration over climate webpage removals

  • silhouette of person walking outside

    ‘Shock to the system’: farmers hit by Trump’s tariffs and cuts say they need another bailout

  • an air conditioner unit in a wall

    RFK Jr urged to release nearly $400m allocated to help families combat heat

  • A businessman's fist striking the Earth like a meteor, scattering debris.

    The rise of end times fascism

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CO2 tracker

Latest news

  • BP’s chair, Helge Lund, speaks during an interview in London, wearing a dark navy blue suit and matching tie

    BP braces for investor rebellion at first AGM since climate strategy U-turn

  • The leader of the opposition, Peter Dutton

    Peter Dutton insists he ‘believes in climate change’ after refusing to say if impacts of global heating worsening

    Climate scientists, environmentalists, Labor and Greens condemn opposition leader for comments at Wednesday election debate
  • The felled oak tree in Whitewebbs Park

    Council plans legal action over ancient London oak felled by Toby Carvery

    Enfield council disputes restaurant chain’s claim 500-year-old tree in Whitewebbs Park was ‘mostly dead’
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America's dirty divide

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    Mysterious bags of ‘hazardous’ materials appeared in Mexico. Then we found more

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    Canadians protest imports of US toxic waste amid Trump tariff war

  • Smoke from burning rubber lingers in the air at the Portland International Raceway during a drag racing event in 2023.

    Lawmaker seeks ban of toxic fuel at Portland racetrack after Guardian story

  • tractor sprays substance on field of green produce

    US-funded ‘social network’ attacking pesticide critics shuts down after Guardian investigation

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Our unequal earth

  • people walking out of a building displaying a Syngenta sign

    Weedkiller maker moves to settle suit over Parkinson’s disease claims

  • people working on a farm

    California’s $59bn agriculture industry reels under Trump’s wavering tariffs

  • Kaila Anderson, creator of LandLogic, on her parents’ farm near Sabetha, Kansas. She has fond memories of her childhood adventures while growing up on a working farm.

    Farmers face one of the highest rates of suicide. This social worker believes the solution is buried in their land

  • A worker trim fat from sections of pork

    ‘They’re killing you’: US poultry workers fear faster lines will lead to more injury

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The age of extinction

  • A man stands in front of an old wall with plants growing from it

    Like the Ritz for wildlife: the joy of recreating England’s ancient hedges

  • A rhino walks down a road with houses on either side

    Sauntering on streets and grazing on lawns: what happens when rhinos move into town?

    In one Nepali village, the resident rhinos are a conservation success story and attract thousands of visitors, but attacks on humans are on the rise
  • Becca Usher sits at a table on which is spread a range of medical equipment including inhalers, breathing equipment and pills.

    ‘It looks like I’ve gone 10 rounds with a boxer’: when hay fever becomes debilitating – and potentially deadly

    Often dismissed as summertime sniffles, the condition that affects a quarter of UK adults can lead to serious and debilitating health problems
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Seascape

  • Author and naturalist Andrew Cleave sat on a group of rocks at Portland Bill, Dorset, UK on a blue-sky day.

    I’m obsessed with coastal wildflowers: they look so delicate but thrive in tough conditions

  • Squid captured on film in the south Atlantic Ocean is a baby, at just 11.8in (30cm) in length
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    Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever – video

    • A translucent creature with red eyes and red tentacles.

      Live colossal squid captured on video in wild for first time ever

    • A smiling man stands at a table with a chopping board covered in ingredients, with a harbour behind him

      The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

    • A man in a cap and sunglasses stands on a beach

      ‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future

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Opinion

  • Amanda Meade

    Nothing to see here, Press Council says after News Corp tabloids’ front-page undisclosed advertorial gassing up fossil fuel

    Amanda Meade
  • Martha Gill

    Why resurrect the dire wolf when existing animals are facing extinction?

    Martha Gill
  • Turbo Chook 25pixie

    Turbo chooks moved into our garden and had babies without telling us! What a dilemma

  • Alexander Hurst

    The big lesson for Europe? Trump backed down under pressure

    Alexander Hurst
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Multimedia

  • 'I'm not a scientist': Dutton responds to climate change question in ABC leaders' debate – video

  • Prepare to dive … research engineer Aurore Molé in a survival suit.

    Underwater Argonauts! The deep-sea scientists logging Med pollution – in pictures

    Juliette Pavy’s photographs of eco expeditions bring an element of lyrical storytelling to the global impact of invisible pollutants, from the Mediterranean to the Arctic
  • Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - formerly the Soviet Union's primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the surrounding community is only beginning to comprehend radiation's lasting deadly effects. Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine and the long shadow of a nuclear conflict across the region, Dmitry debates Kazakhstan's nuclear future with its next generation
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    Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

    Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - formerly the Soviet Union's primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the surrounding community is only beginning to comprehend radiation's lasting deadly effects. Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine and the long shadow of a nuclear conflict across the region, Dmitry debates Kazakhstan's nuclear future with its next generation
  • At Amarah’s Al-Sadr hospital, medical staff, patients and their families struggle as busy wards overheat and tempers fray.

    Faintings, blackouts and violence: Iraq’s scorching emergency – in pictures

  • Maria Matthes, a lifelong conservationist, says loss of habitat and climate change are threatening koalas in eastern New South Wales
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    Endangered koalas and the ecologist documenting their extinction – video

  • Sri Lankan leopard in the bush

    Week in wildlife: ospreys reunited, a monkey thief and a London fox cub

  • The race to save Mary river turtle nests from rising flood waters in rural Queensland
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    Endangered bum-breathing turtles and the town working to save them – video

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