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Environment

  • a gas station

    Supreme court sides with oil and gas firms in Louisiana coastal damage fight

    8-0 ruling gives companies new day in federal court after firms including Chevron ordered to pay millions for cleanup
  • A man pulls a canoe over a rock from one lake to another.

    US Senate repeals Biden-era ban on mining near Minnesota wilderness area

  • A large building surrounded by forest.

    Puerto Rico’s rainforest center reborn: in pictures

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  • The back of a whale above the water, with the skyline of San Francisco in the background.

    Gray whales, once rare in San Francisco Bay, dying there at alarming rates

  • a man in a suit speaking

    NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis

  • Silhouettes of people

    Are we heading for ‘super El Niño’ – and what could we expect?

  • A collage that includes a stress ball, pamphlets, children’s books, and a bowl of mints

    Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’

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Latest news

  • Aerial view of Mose flood barrie site at Malamocco inlet, Venice lagoon

    ‘We can’t wait’: Venice already seeking floods plan B five years after barriers’ launch

  • An AI-generated Lego-style video posted on Iranian social media accounts, showing Donald Trump sweating in front of a figure holding a binder that reads ‘Epstein file’

    Six great reads: Iran’s social media memes, an abandoned department store and a 1,200-year-old record of cherry blossoms

  • BYD Dolphin Surf electric car

    Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles

  • Surveillance footage appears to show the young male wolf after escaping his enclosure at O-world zoo on 8 April

    South Koreans breathe sighs of relief as escaped wolf is returned to zoo safely

America's dirty divide

  • Sonora River polluted with sulfuric acid from copper mine leak in Mexico

    US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says

  • air pollution

    Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

  • A cityscape is seen in the foreground covered in smog with a large mountain seen in the background

    Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’

  • wide shot of an industrial landscape in a city

    Mexico factory that imports US toxic waste to relocate after Guardian report

Our unequal earth

  • A farm worker is seen through a window of a dairy barn at dusk.

    ‘I don’t go out’: Vermont’s undocumented dairy workers live in fear after immigration raids

  • A man in a striped shirt guides a cow through a barn

    ‘They want to keep denying us our rights’: workers in Vermont’s $5.4bn dairy industry fight for basic labor protections

  • two women kneeling

    Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging

  • A woman foraging for wild leeks, also called ramps, or wild onions.

    Is foraging really feasible to feed myself?

The age of extinction

  • Four gardeners work in a flowerbed in a park in London with the BT Tower visible in the background.

    A prickle of hedgehogs and an armada of newts: wildlife settles in at London’s new Queen Elizabeth garden

  • Biodiversity Workers by Christer Bjorkman - from top left : Åsa Kruys, Mats Thulin, Vivi Vajda; from bottom right: Mats Jonsell, Emma Kärrnäs and Torbjörn Tyler.

    In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures

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  • A white mushroom with a filigree-like cap sprouts from leaf mould. A fly sits on the top of it

    ‘Without them there is no life’: the race to understand the mysterious world of Africa’s fungi

  • A male chimpanzee showing its teeth in an attack on another chimpanzee with its back to the camera.

    Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

Seascape

  • Aerial view of a whale's tail in shallow water

    Stranded and dying, the German whale is a parable of our troubled relationship with these sea giants

  • Jake Snell, 20, sits near the giant ‘Gulliver’ wind turbine at Ness Point, Suffolk

    Surrounded by windfarms but out of work: the reality of the green jobs boom on England’s east coast

  • Two mounds of sand filled with grey sludge rise out of an otherwise green stretch of land in between a lagoon and a cluster of houses.

    ‘The water is no longer our friend’: how dredging is pushing Lagos Lagoon towards ecosystem collapse – photo essay

  • A man cycles along a seafront

    Not if, but when: how Spain’s coastal towns are preparing for tsunamis

Opinion

  • A young birdwatcher hiding in foliage looks through a pair of binoculars

    double quotation markI adored Pokémon as a child. Now I collect critters of a different kind in a hobby that brings me deep joy – birdwatching

    Jayce Carrano
  • George Monbiot

    double quotation markWho’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution?

    George Monbiot
  • Jason Momoa

    double quotation markCoral reefs are nearing extinction. 2026 must mark a turning point

    Jason Momoa
  • Adam Morton

    double quotation markPoliticians and media can’t imagine a fossil-fuel free world - and it’s holding Australians back from huge EV savings

    Adam Morton

Multimedia

  • A gosling walks along the bank of the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany

    Week in wildlife: a puffin bromance, blushing terrapins and goslings galore

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