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Environment

  • Photo of building

    Elon Musk’s xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer

    Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents receive anonymous leaflets that downplay pollution dangers
  • homes damaged

    Trump denies aid for Arkansas after storms that killed more than 40 people

  • A JBS facility in Tucuma, Para state, Brazil pictured in 2021.

    Green groups decry plan to list world’s biggest meatpacking company on NYSE

  • An oil refinery

    US interior agency to fast track fossil fuel and mining permits over ‘fake emergency’

  • a Black man looks at a PVC pipe on the ground in a back yard

    Trump administration kills landmark pollution settlement in majority-Black county

  • Man sits on chair in classroom

    Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety

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CO2 tracker

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  • A puppeteer with a lifesize gazelle puppet in front of a crowd of spectators

    Lifesize herd of puppet animals begins climate action journey from Africa to Arctic Circle

  • The Drax power station near Selby, North Yorkshire.

    MPs question value of billions in subsidies granted to Drax power plant

    Spending watchdog warns £6.5bn in funding may not offer value for public money amid sustainability concerns
  • An aerial picture taken with a drone shows the Thames Water Mogden sewage treatment works in Isleworth, London last year

    UK spending watchdog censures water firms and regulators over sewage failings

    NAO finds regulatory gaps have enabled overspending on infrastructure building while not improving sewage works
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America's dirty divide

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

  • overhead view of cityscape beside icy river

    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

  • a woman in outdoor work clothes and a wide-brimmed hat examines something as she kneels in a field covered in wildflowers

    Meet the seed collector restoring California’s landscapes - one tiny plant at a time

  • people walking out of a building displaying a Syngenta sign

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

  • silhouette of person walking outside

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

  • people working on a farm

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

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The age of extinction

  • An extreme closeup photograph of a black ant

    Two teens and 5,000 ants: how a smuggling bust shed new light on a booming trade

  • Aerial view of tree trunks being loaded on to a barge

    Sanctioned Russian and Belarusian wood smuggled into UK, study suggests

    ‘Chemical fingerprint’ shows 46% of wood samples certified as sustainable did not come from labelled country of origin
  • A man stands in front of an old wall with plants growing from it

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

    Up and down the country, volunteers are coming together to plant more of these nature-rich reserves
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Seascape

  • An image of the grooves created using 3D seismic reflection data

    Giant icebergs once drifted off the coast of Britain, scientists find

  • A woman's hands hold a paintbrush and a pot of ink over a half-finished painting of an octopusCaragh is creating an original artwork for AFYO. "Art For Your Oceans" (AFYO), a collaborative project between WWF and Artwise, aims to raise funds and awareness for ocean conservation through a selling exhibition of specially commissioned artworks, featuring 16 international artists, and utilizing OCEAN INK, a sustainable ink made from seaweed.

    ‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge

    • Two men in white snowsuits and gloves stand near a large drone

      On thin ice: the brutal cold of Canada’s Arctic was once a defence, but a warming climate has changed that

    • Two polar bears on an ice floe

      Melting glaciers will harm us all. Yet still we watch, unmoved

    • 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

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Opinion

  • Nils Pratley

    Drax needs a better policeman

    Nils Pratley
  • George Monbiot

    Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime

    George Monbiot
  • Adrian Chiles

    I loathe pigeons. You wouldn’t believe what they do to my downpipe

    Adrian Chiles
  • AlboWinsIt2025pixkie

    Election 2025: will the Albo party win it? The polls are never wrong!

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Multimedia

  • Two bear cubs who were rescued in Bursa, Turkey.

    Week in wildlife: wild ponies, a playful jaguar and penguin chicks taking their first swim

  • Two years into the worst coral bleaching event on record, more than 80% of the planet's reefs have been affected
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    Tracing the worst coral bleaching event in recorded history – video

    Two years into the worst coral bleaching event on record, more than 80% of the planet's reefs have been affected
  • A runner runs with a black pony in a forest

    Miniature horses race in New Zealand’s big wilderness – in pictures

    In the Great Northern Gallop, participants run 100km alongside miniature horses through rugged beaches and dense forests
  • Two wild elephants entering the gates of an army base in India

    Week in wildlife: elephants on parade, a rescued serval and wandering bears

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out why it is important for consumers to know where their salmon comes from, and examines the gap between the marketing of farmed salmon and the reality for our health, the environmental and animal welfare
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    How the truth about supermarket salmon is being hidden – video

  • The opposition leader demurred on whether climate change was exacerbating weather events
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    '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

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