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  • People in green field rows with mountain in backgroudn.

    At least 19 people contract fungal infection after California music festival, officials say

    New research shows that cases of valley fever, which in rare cases can be fatal, have risen dramatically in recent years
  • a side-by-side image showing an oil refinery and a university building

    University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – report

  • A person wiping their face with a cloth

    ‘Dangerously hot’ weather roasts US west as brutal summer continues

  • a billboard shows the 106-degree temperature

    Phoenix, Arizona, hits its 100th consecutive day of 100F weather

  • a group of people hold signs that read 'keep Florida state parks wild' and 'save Honeymoon Island'

    Florida state parks whistleblower fired after exposing Ron DeSantis’s plans

  • construction cranes surround a liquid natural gas facility

    ‘I want out’: how a natural gas project along the Gulf coast is upending residents’ lives

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  • A colony of bats flying against a night sky

    Loss of bats to lethal fungus linked to 1,300 child deaths in US, study says

  • A gold-tinged beige moth

    Rare moth found in Norfolk village 50 years after becoming ‘extinct’ in Britain

    Enthusiasts discovered Norfolk snout, thought to have died out in the UK in 1971, in their garden
  • Wind turbines by a coastline in Australia

    Australia may delay release of 2035 climate target as world awaits outcome of US election

    Experts urge Australia not to delay target too long as report by Climate Change Authority identifies six barriers to net zero
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Big oil uncovered

  • workers in white hazmat suits and reflective vests clean up a beach

    Harris is ‘perfect person’ to prosecute big oil, climate advocates say

  • 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

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America's dirty divide

  • A pipe discharges water into the Haw River near Bynum, North Carolina.

    Scientists tied to chemical industry plan to derail PFAS rule on drinking water

  • Hand on pregnant belly

    Pregnant people and fetuses not being protected from wildfire risks – report

  • buildings and telephone poles below dark clouds

    Lead found in tap water of Los Angeles community after residents raised alarm for years

  • FILE PHOTO: Workers lift a solar panel onto a roof during a residential solar installation in Scripps Ranch, San Diego, California, U.S. October 14, 2016. Picture taken October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

    Tax credits in Biden’s landmark climate law disproportionately benefit well-off

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Our unequal earth

  • A Black couple wearing head wraps and purple t-shirts that say 'Afrodisiac' pose together in a restaurant that has a colorful wall mural featuring Black women and Jamaican Creole food ingredients

    New Orleans solar panel program turns eateries into hurricane shelters

  • a Black female farmer's hand checks growing flowers

    How many Black farmers are there in the US? Why we doubt the government stats

    Bryce Wilson Stucki and Nathan A Rosenberg
  • a customer shops in a grocery store

    ‘Don’t be scared of beans’: how readers are handling US grocery inflation

  • A person driving in a car holds a purple cup reading 'Sip, Return, Repeat' as they prepare to drop it into a receptacle reading 'Reusable cups only'

    ‘Sip, return, repeat’: US city tackles throwaway cup culture with first-of-its-kind system

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The age of extinction

  • Researchers investigate the spread of bird flu, on Beak Island in Antarctica, March 2, 2024 in this handout image. Ben Wallis/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

    Forgotten epidemic: with over 280 million birds dead how is the avian flu outbreak evolving?

  • Two men capture a pink dolphin in a net

    The race to find out what killed hundreds of pink dolphins in the Amazon – in pictures

    Scientists are trying to establish whether global heating caused the deaths of the rare river dolphins last year, before temperatures start to rise again
  • Two women collect samples from a shallow pool in a rocky landscape

    Who wins from nature’s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global ‘biopiracy’ battle

    As multinationals and researchers harvest rare organisms around the world, anger is rising in the global south over the unpaid use of lucrative genetic codes found on their land
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Seascape

  • A freediver ascends alongside a rope surrounded by six safety divers

    Saving lives on a single breath: how ‘safeties’ like me allow freedivers to take part in high-stakes competitions

  • Fresh mackerel for sale at a fish market.

    Labour needs to fix British fishing – will it stand by its principles now it is in power?

    Charles Clover
    • A salmon with yellow and orange markings swims towards the camera with its mouth open.

      ‘Like doomsday’: why have salmon deserted Norway’s rivers – and will they ever return?

    • In three, side by side photos - A house on stilts is seen surrounded by water. A man poses for a portrait on a white background. A bulldozer is seen pushing dirt on a levee.

      This man saved his town from deadly floodwaters. So why did the US government try to stop him?

    • A female tiger shark at the dive site Tiger Zoo, off the island of Fuvahmulah, Maldives.

      How solving the mystery of pregnant tiger sharks in the Maldives could help save the apex predator

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Opinion

  • The sector pathways review shows the shift from coal to renewables is already happening fast, driven by the exit of old coal plants and the low cost of solar and wind power

    Can Australia reach net zero by 2050? A new reports shows it must be ‘the new normal’

    Frank Jotzo for the Conversation
  • Adam Morton

    Let’s be honest: Australia’s claim to have cut climate pollution isn’t as good as it seems

    Adam Morton
  • Nils Pratley

    Nice auction, but Ed Miliband is still a long way from his 2030 targets for offshore wind

    Nils Pratley
  • 240903 Watchdog's Lament EPA thumbnail

    How powerful is Australia’s environmental watchdog?

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Multimedia

  • Two boys in swimming trunks stand by the river's edge

    River Story: the life and times of a river over a year – in pictures

  • A catch from a prawn trawler off the south-east Queensland coast.

    A day in the life of a Queensland prawn trawler – in pictures

    Photographer Paul Hilton shadowed Captain Robert Bergholz on his boat Restless to see how a local prawn trawler’s day unfolds
  • Hundreds of sea lions gather at San Carlos beach in Monterey, California, US.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a sea lion takeover, an unlucky caiman and a hungry gull

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Winner – threatened species: Teen Spirit – juvenile sea lions enjoy a stream at the head of Port Ross, Aotearoa New Zealand

    Australian Geographic nature photographer of the year 2024 – in pictures

  • Tonnes of dead fish have washed up in the port of Volos

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    Hundreds of thousands of dead fish blanket Greece tourist port after flooding – video

  • A jaguar delivers a fatal bite to a caiman

    Wildlife photographer of the year 2024 – preview

  • The cameras that made the Victorian capital's falcons a social media phenomenon are rolling again for a new breeding season, capturing a new female falcon incubating an egg

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    New peregrine falcon takes a meal and nurses egg atop Melbourne skyscraper – video

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