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Environment

  • a woman sits under an umbrella on a bench

    Hot and alone: how US cities work to protect isolated people in heatwaves

    Data shows people living alone were more likely to die in recent periods of unusually intense heat around the world
  • a geyser erupting in a brown field with woods beyond

    US national park service to receive $100m in largest grant in its history

  • water samples in jars

    Plutonium levels near US atomic site in Los Alamos similar to Chornobyl, study finds

  • 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

  • semiconductor chips

    Industry acts to head off regulation on PFAS pollution from semiconductors

  • Pidgey, the purse pigeon, outside in NYC.

    Pigeon-fluencers help the much-hated bird make a surprising comeback

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  • Crocodiles on the banks of the East Alligator River in Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory

    Crocodile culling an ineffective and expensive way to reduce attacks, Northern Territory study finds

  • Aerial view of Vanuatu

    ‘A crisis entirely of humanity’s making’: UN chief issues climate SOS on trip to Pacific

    António Guterres calls for a ‘massive’ increase in finance and support for the countries most vulnerable to rising sea levels
  • Sudanese people cross a damaged road surrounded by mud and floodwater

    Flood surge in Sudan bursts dam, destroying villages and killing dozens

    One report says 150-200 people missing after heavy rain led to Arbaat dam giving way in area already hit by civil war
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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

  • 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

  • Outdoor image of white silos, one with a yellow-and-red Shell logo, beside flooded grass.

    Revealed: Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025

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Our unequal earth

  • Haytham Ibrahim, a co-founder of Sudanese Farming Group, in New Hope, Minnesota.

    Sudanese farm grows connection in Minnesota amid conflict at home

  • an aerial view of burned out buildings as the sun glows

    Arsenic and old sugarcane: cleaning up Hawaii in the fallout from wildfires

  • A gray-haired, balding man grins as children hug him.

    Free meals v hungry children: is this the school lunch election?

    Marcus Weaver-Hightower
  • A close-up of a woman washing a handful of cherries under the sink

    Peel those apples: washing produce doesn’t remove pesticides, study finds

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The age of extinction

  • A male bear weighing 124 kg was one of about 19 bears that were shot during the first day of the bear hunt in Ljusdal, Gavleborg County, Sweden on August 21, 2020.Photo: Adam Ihse / TT / Code: 9200<br>2XX8RAY A male bear weighing 124 kg was one of about 19 bears that were shot during the first day of the bear hunt in Ljusdal, Gavleborg County, Sweden on August 21, 2020.Photo: Adam Ihse / TT / Code: 9200

    Swedish hunters kill more than 150 brown bears in first days of annual cull

  • A woman speaks in front of an array of microphones, with a banner that has a multicoloured logo reading 'Cop16' behind her

    We must restore nature to avoid global catastrophe, warns biodiversity summit president

    Just cutting carbon emissions will not prevent climate breakdown, says Susana Muhamad before Cop16 in Colombia
  • A giraffe gallops against the skyline of Nairobi city in Kenya

    Humans to push further into wildlife habitats across more than 50% of land by 2070 – study

    Sharing increasingly crowded spaces could result in greater risk of pandemics, human and animal conflicts and loss of nature, say researchers
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Seascape

  • Humpback whale breaches, or propels itself out of the water, in front of cliffs of ice and snow at an icefjord in Greeland

    Whales are doing well so it’s time to scrap the body that once protected them, says former head

  • Aggregate of several jellyfish underwater below sea surface, mauve stinger Pelagia noctiluca, Mediterranean, Spain<br>T4GT3C Aggregate of several jellyfish underwater below sea surface, mauve stinger Pelagia noctiluca, Mediterranean, Spain

    Resorts on Spain’s Costa Brava struggle with invasion of jellyfish as seas warm

    • Dr Ceri Lewis, smiling in a bobble hat and standing in an estuary with mud on her gloves and smeared on her trousers and jacket.

      I’m obsessed with sea worms: ‘Thankfully, in 25 years of working with them, I’ve never been bitten’

    • Brianna Randall at the helm of the Sail Like A Mother team sailing boat on the 2024 Race to Alaska (R2AK).

      Three women in a boat: how girl (and pedal) power helped us finish a 750-mile race to Alaska

    • Jervis Bay in Australia.

      Tuesday briefing: Why the oceans are on the frontline of the climate crisis

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Opinion

  • Tim Blackburn

    Forget the moths that eat your clothes. Most are beautiful and deserve to be loved

    Tim Blackburn
  • In the Marshall Islands, rising sea levels threaten to engulf entire communities, writes Tim Flannery

    Pacific nations aren’t asking for favours. They just want Australia to meet the moment on climate justice

    Tim Flannery
  • Gordon Brown

    It’s August 2024 – and our world is at a turning point. Here’s what we should do now

    Gordon Brown
  • John Quiggin

    Gina Rinehart’s latest grab-bag of opinions is more proof billionaires are no smarter than the rest of us

    John Quiggin
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Multimedia

  • Aerial shots show lava and smoke erupting from volcano in Iceland – video

  • A pair of bonnet macaques check themselves out in the side mirror of a motor-scooter in Chandigarh, India

    Week in wildlife in pictures: ‘vain’ monkeys, a puffling fling and Jane Goodall with an owl

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • The oarfish, resembling a serpent, was found floating dead on the ocean surface off the San Diego coast before it was brought ashore for study

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    Rarely seen deep-sea fish washes up in California – video

    The oarfish, resembling a serpent, was found floating dead on the ocean surface off the San Diego coast before it was brought ashore for study
  • A Rutland osprey swooping down to grab a fish

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a hunting osprey, a golf-loving snake and a hedgehog in a war zone

  • Indian woman in a yellow sari picks fruit from a tree with few leaves in an arid landscape.

    Pushing the boundaries: Indian women in a man’s world – in pictures

  • The group says the logging in a state-owned forest in Queensland is taking place less than 3km from a high-density population group of endangered greater gliders

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    Conservation group releases video showing logging near endangered greater gliders – video

  • Juvenile Coyote in Oregon, Elkton, USA - 31 Jul 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14614187d) A juvenile coyote hunts as dusk falls on a grassy hillside on a farm near Elkton in southwestern Oregon. Their primary diet is made up of small rodents, but coyotes are opportunistic and will consume a vast array of foods including birds and insects, fruit and vegetables, human garbage and compost, outdoor pet food and small free-roaming pets. Juvenile Coyote in Oregon, Elkton, USA - 31 Jul 2024

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a soggy robin, a breaching whale and a coyote on the hunt

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