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Environment

  • decorated Christmas trees outside against a city backdrop

    Researchers race to climate-proof Christmas tree production: ‘We’re up to the task’

    Scientists search for a variety to withstand the climate crisis as high temperatures and drought can stress trees
  • A person wearing a yellow EPA vest stands in a river holding a shovel

    EPA to formally review risks of vinyl chloride and other toxic chemicals

  • Composite of three images: one of hands using a sewing machine, one of a woman standing outside, and one of persimmons in a cloth bag.

    My sewing group makes reusable produce bags - cutting back on plastic and textile waste

  • Aerial view of flat land with canals.

    ‘I didn’t realize the role rice played’: the ingenious crop cultivation of the Gullah Geechee people

  • A pool of oil surrounded by dry vegetation

    Oil and gas firms operating in Colorado falsified environmental impact reports

  • Illustration of factory and university building

    Revealed: how a US public university courted the gas industry despite climate impacts

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  • Looking across the Chiltern Hills towards a chalk lion carved in the hillside in Buckinghamshire, England.

    Campaigners call for right to roam on edges of private farmland in England and Wales

  • A doe and two fawns run across a soya bean field

    ‘The dead zone is real’: why US farmers are embracing wildflowers

    Strips of native plants on as little as 10% of farmland can reduce soil erosion by up to 95%
  • Policeman standing in front of police vehicle on road in dry and flat area

    Birdsville notches up another temperature record as Australia faces more heat before New Year’s Eve

    The town hit 47.2C by mid afternoon, but locals are already well-versed in the art of staying cool
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Big oil uncovered

  • an industrial facility with trees and a body of water in the foreground

    ‘I have to live in a cocoon’: locals in Pennsylvania feel ‘sacrificed’ for Shell plastics plant

  • smoke coming out of a factory

    Big oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as early as 1950s, memos show

  • a student walks on a university campus

    University of Toronto’s environment school cuts financial ties to fossil fuels

  • An aerial view of an oil refinery

    New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters

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America's dirty divide

  • 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

  • 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

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Our unequal earth

  • a cashier uses a register in a restaurant

    Vegan no more: a beloved Asheville plant-based cafe pivots to stay afloat post-hurricane

  • Color illustration of a plate with food on it labeled with prices.

    Can everyone eat for the planet? I shopped at Dollar Store for a week to find out

  • side by side images of a plate of food, two people and a shelf

    ‘The taste of our home’: inside an Afghan restaurant in Arizona run by former refugees

  • two white turkeys stand on a green lawn

    The short, painful life of your Thanksgiving turkey

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The age of extinction

  • Two shaggy musk oxen, with big curved horns, look at the camera from a ridge

    They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat?

  • Two male reindeer locking antlers in a forest clearing

    Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer

    For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forests
  • A grey fish on a rock

    Blob-headed fish and amphibious mouse among 27 new species found in ‘thrilling’ Peru expedition

    Scientists surprised to find so many animals unknown to science in Alto Mayo, a well-populated region
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Seascape

  • A grey lying on sand with her flipper resting on a pup with streaks of blood on its white fur

    ‘Britain’s wildlife safari’: baby boom in Norfolk as seal colonies flourish

  • Mahyuddin and Ema Listyana

    Indian Ocean tsunami: how survivors found love after Boxing Day disaster

    • Five people cluster around a large dolphin-like whale on a beach as breakers crash against the shore

      Dissecting the world’s rarest whale – in pictures

    • Abdul Rahem with his boat in the Aceh province, Indonesia

      ‘If we die, we die together’: 20 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, are we better prepared?

    • Restaurant, plate with mussels

      Time to be shellfish: why the UK should go back to feasting on oysters and mussels

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Opinion

  • Jeremy Corbyn

    The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them?

    Jeremy Corbyn
  • Adrian Chiles

    Dear Santa, please bring back the plastic lids on yoghurt pots

    Adrian Chiles
  • Helen Sullivan

    A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life

    Helen Sullivan
  • Gabrielle Chan

    Farming has always been gambling with dirt – but the odds are getting longer

    Gabrielle Chan
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Multimedia

  • Ailanthus Webworm, Atteva aurea . 2022

    On a wing and a prayer: the hidden beauty of insect’s flight – in pictures

  • Riley Swanson (left) and Chico Shaw watching the sunset over the Roma Southern Road in Queensland.

    Guardian Australia’s best photos of 2024 – in pictures

    From break dancing to nude bathers and the country’s best mullets, here’s a selection of our photographers’ finest work
  • A marmoset dangles upside down by its hind legs, enjoying a banana at Forte Duque de Caxias in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a dangling marmoset, rare leopard babies and an eyelash snake

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • A modern home in Clapham, London built alongside traditional period townhouses.

    Homes for sale with an air source heat pump – in pictures

  • The spectacular site is home to more than 1,000 species, including the endangered pygmy blue whale. But a Woodside gas project would put it all at risk, conservationists say 

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    Rare vision of WA’s Scott Reef shows dazzling ecosystem threatened by gas projects – video

  • A macaque sits in front of a temple

    Week in wildlife in pictures: cheeky macaques, busy bees and an unfazed egret

  • Water category and overall first prize winnerPot-bellied Seahorse Portrait'To capture the subtle movement of the sea tulips while keeping the seahorse in focus, I chose a slightly longer shutter speed. This allowed the gentle motion of the water to blur slightly, giving a sense of the underwater environment.’

    The 2024 Nature Conservancy Oceania photo contest winners – in pictures

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