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Environment

  • A drilling rig is silhouetted at sunset.

    Fracking explained: why the fossil fuel extraction process became a US election issue

    Harris reiterates she won’t ban fracking if elected as Trump runs ads stating the opposite in tight Pennsylvania race
  • A before and after of what an amusement park would look like before and after flooding

    How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater

  • An illustration showing people working at a warehouse directing a freight plane

    Smokey air, nonstop nosebleeds. Life as a warehouse worker in a heatwave: ‘Products matter more than people’

  • a sign reads 'extreme heat stay cool drink water'

    At least three California students taken to hospital for heat-related injuries

  • People carry bags of fresh water after filling up at a distribution site in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in Asheville, N.C. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

    Hurricane Helene leaves thousands without clean water in its wake

  • Young adults in summer wear and baseball caps walk in a group holding handmade signs above their heads.

    Trip on psychedelics, save the planet: the offbeat solution to the climate crisis

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    Gap in Albanese government’s new fuel efficiency rules means ‘biggest, dirtiest polluters’ exempt

  • They stand by the water wearing hi-viz jackets

    Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund carbon capture and storage projects

    Investment will fund two CCS clusters – but environmental campaigners have criticised plans
  • Oysters on seabed

    Europe’s exhausted oyster reefs ‘once covered area size of Northern Ireland’

    Study uncovers vivid and poignant accounts of reefs as high as houses off countries including UK, France and Ireland
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Big oil uncovered

  • Donald Trump in Valdosta, Georgia, on 30 September.

    Trump continues to deny climate crisis as he visits hurricane-ravaged Georgia

  • a man looks to the right next to a coal-fired power plant

    Leonard Leo-linked group attacking efforts to educate judges on climate

  • a man in a black shirt stares at camera

    ‘Pessimism is a luxury we can’t afford’: Kumi Naidoo on fighting fossil fuels with art and culture

  • A car drives past a refinery with the sign ExxonMobil

    California sues ExxonMobil over alleged role in plastic pollution crisis

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America's dirty divide

  • the outside of an apartment building

    Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it’s time to use them

  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/paraquat-parkinsons-disease-research-syngenta-weedkiller

    Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics

  • a brick building with a/c units on the outside

    93F and no electricity: why some US utilities can cut power despite heatwaves

  • A yellow and orange illustration of a person, wearing a tank top, pants and shoes, lying in a fetal position within a box.

    ‘Even the breeze was hot’: how incarcerated people survive extreme heat in prison

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Our unequal earth

  • a man standing in a field swinging a farm implement.

    ‘We need ’em worse than they need us’: how Haitian workers feed the US

  • A person standing by a cooler hands another person a styrofoam meal container and a bottle of water

    US farms are forcing workers to buy inedible, expensive meals: ‘It makes you feel enslaved’

  • side by side images of a woman in a patterned shirt and women operating a hose

    Something about the migrant labor camp spooked my mother. Then she learned its dark history

  • Students get lunch

    Why unpaid US school lunch debt can prompt a call to child welfare services

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The age of extinction

  • Susana Muhamad Rozo 001 in Bogota, Colombia, June 2022

    How the ‘Frida Kahlo of environmental geopolitics’ is lighting a fire under big oil

  • A spiky agave-type plant on a mountain-side of grass and rocks

    Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants

    Kew study reveals areas with at least 100,000 undiscovered plant species – most likely to be under threat of extinction
  • Alistair Boxall, professor in environmental science at the University of York, taking a water sample at Brook Head Beck

    ‘Rivers you think are pristine are not’: how drug pollution flooded the UK’s waterways – and put human health at risk

    High levels of antibiotics and other drugs have been found in water in the country’s most treasured and protected landscapes, raising concerns over antimicrobial resistance
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Seascape

  • Aerial of Clayoquot Sound reserve in British Columbia is home to the last 60 salmon farms

    ‘I won’t believe it until I see it happen’: Could a ban on sea farms save Canada’s salmon?

  • A cuttlefish amid weed-covered branches of a tree watched by a man in a wetsuit with goggles and snorkel

    ‘We look to the past to move forward’: the ancient method boosting cuttlefish numbers in the Mediterranean

    • 1st Prize Echoing Sigh-lence of Relief inside Cargo Hold by Muara Jawa.

      The Life at Sea 2024 photography awards: a rare glimpse into the highs and lows of seafaring

    • Corallian Energy Drill in Poole Bay To Explore Oil Reserves<br>POOLE, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: ENSCO-72 drilling rig working in Poole Bay for Corallian Energy on February 15, 2019 in Poole Bay, England. The scheme to drill more than 1,000 metres below the seabed to explore oil reserves in the Colter prospect has until February 28. Save Our Shores Bournemouth says the chemical permit issued by government regulator OPRED allows ‘up to 6753 tons of chemicals to be discharged, including eight tons of biocide’. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

      Oil pollution in UK waters far worse than reported, says conservation group

    • Two divers raise an anchor covered in rust and barnacles towards the surface

      ‘I had found gold before, but not like this’: four of the most splendid treasures salvaged from shipwrecks

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Opinion

  • Nadya Tolokonnikova

    Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him

    Nadya Tolokonnikova
  • Greg Jericho

    Plibersek’s coalmine decision is double trouble for climate and housing

    Greg Jericho
  • Gernot Wagner

    Floods are wreaking havoc around the world. Vienna might have found an answer

    Gernot Wagner
  • George Monbiot

    As the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice

    George Monbiot
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Multimedia

  • Collins Street falcons: two chicks have hatched on skyscraper and are taking meals – video

  • A Komodo dragon up close on Komodo Island, Indonesia

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a penguin ballerina, the spooky spookfish and a sociable octopus

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • The Speed Skater – Stellers Sea Eagle in the drifting sea ice off Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan

    Comedy wildlife photography awards 2024 – in pictures

    A light-hearted look at wildlife with a selection of finalists from the Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards. A winner will be announced on 10 December
  • Nine protesters jumped on top of a train on Wednesday morning headed to the Port of Newcastle, unfurled a banner and began shovelling coal off

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    Activists board coal train as Albanese government approves three coalmine expansions – video

  • A ring of hundreds of dead birds which flew into glass buildings

    Bird photographer of the year 2024 winners – in pictures

  • Opposition leader Peter Dutton detailed the Coalition’s nuclear power plan in a speech in Sydney, but did not announce its cost, saying it is coming 'in due course'

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    Dutton says Coalition will release nuclear power plan costings 'at a time of our choosing' – video

  • Supermoon rises over a canola field, shown black in the night sky

    Gold rush: harvest moon rises to meet canola season in Riverina – in pictures

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