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Environment

  • a side-by-side image of hazy skies along a cityscape and people running

    Running in America’s worst air: ‘Like binging on a carton of cigarettes’

    For a writer and runner in Denver, Colorado, the city’s severe air pollution creates a daily dilemma: do something you love, or risk your health?
  • Workers use heavy machinery to move trash and waste in Irvine, California, in June 2021.

    US landfills are major source of toxic PFAS pollution, study finds

  • man arrested by NYPD

    Cello-playing climate activist arrested at New York Citibank protest as crackdown escalates

  • 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

  • Woman shines flashlight for her dog on front porch of home that is surrounded by cluttered belongings

    Alaska capital takes stock after worst flooding yet caused by retreating glacier

  • Heavy Rains Cause Flash Flooding In Parts Of New York City<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 29: People stand around at the Church Avenue subway station as subway service is stopped amid heavy rain on September 29, 2023 in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn borough New York City. Flash flooding is expected in the counties of Nassau, Queens and Kings, which includes Brooklyn, according to the state’s National Weather Service office as remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia reaches the Northeast. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

    New York City subway riders are breathing in hazardous air, study finds

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Latest news

  • A gamekeeper, with a black dog, stands among heather in the background as two grouse fly across the landscape in front

    Call for tougher policing of Scottish grouse moors on eve of ‘Glorious Twelfth’

  • Greater glider on a branch

    It looks like a cross between a koala and a possum – and it’s in big trouble, Australian conservationists say

    Queensland Conservation Council is urging the state government to protect the endangered greater glider population as logging continues
  • Droplets fill the air as a dog shakes off water

    Are some of your household products killing insects and wildlife?

    Flea treatments for dogs, ant killer, washing-up liquid and herbicides may be partly to blame for decline in UK
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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

  • Prison fence with razor wire against a sunny sky

    ‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates

  • woman with short hair wearing white top and black skirt stands on neighborhood sidewalk

    For Maui wildfire survivors who moved to Las Vegas, another climate disaster awaits: extreme heat

  • Children play next to a fire hydrant

    How readers stay cool in a heatwave – when air conditioning isn’t enough

  • A man in an orange shirt takes off his construction helmet in order to splash water on his head in a public fountain

    ‘Your body is completely drained’: US workers toil in heatwaves with no protections

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Our unequal earth

  • illustration of a woman looking a table of desserts, a glucose monitor and pills

    Gimme some sugar: a diabetic on love, loss and longing for pound cake

  • A man wearing a hat, denim shirt, and gloves sits on a tractor on farmland

    US pays $2bn to Black and minority farmers after years of discrimination

  • a man in a suit and tie holds up a large block of cheese

    Orange, edible and in a block: a short history of US ‘guv’ment’ cheese

  • a woman holds a tote bag and a reusable water bottle

    Marketing a tote bag as reusable is silly. Let’s say no to more stuff

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The age of extinction

  • The white outline of a bird on glass

    Death toll for birds hitting buildings may be over 1 billion a year in US – report

  • A badger in a cage being injected

    Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds

    Percentage of badgers with bTB fell to zero in Cornish study, raising hopes of end to cull of 210,000 badgers since 2013
  • A guerrilla with a machine gun wearing a Farc-EP armband.

    Colombian guerrillas withdraw threat to disrupt UN biodiversity summit

    Central General Staff militant group previously said Cop16 event scheduled for October in Cali ‘would fail’
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Seascape

  • The global network of cables that powers the internet is under increasing threat

    What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet

  • Two newborn olive ridley sea turtles seen from above make their way across the sand towards the sea. Dehiwala beach, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

    ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians

    • Phalanxes of umbrellas on the beach at Gaeta, a small city on the border between Campania and Lazio regions, as seen from the air.

      Sea, sand and sky-high fees: Italians tussle over their right to lie on the beach

    • Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, poses for a portrait at with The HIPPO project at Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation. Photo by Lauren DeCicca for The Guardian

      How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution

    • A woman and five girls in formal dress standing in a line waving

      Sea change: How the Herring Queen brought promise and joy to a small Scottish town

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Opinion

  • George Monbiot

    For those with power and rich donors – the AC is always on, even if it’s melting outside

    George Monbiot
  • Adam Morton

    Western Australia’s EPA has made a big call on a major gas expansion. Will state and federal governments back it up?

    Adam Morton
  • Helen Sullivan

    A naked mole rat: like termites, they have one almost endlessly pregnant queen

    Helen Sullivan
  • Graham Readfearn

    Dutton praises Canada to sell nuclear plan. But does Ontario really have cheaper power?

    Graham Readfearn
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Multimedia

  • 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

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • A new study is mapping the secrets to the remarkably steady flight of kestrels and could inform future drone designs and help achieve steadier flight in fixed wing aircraft

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    How the stunning and steady flight of the kestrel is informing the future of drone design – video

    A new study is mapping the secrets to the remarkably steady flight of kestrels and could inform future drone designs and help achieve steadier flight in fixed wing aircraft
  • A man slides on flood water in a residential street

    Tropical Storm Debby deluges coastal US cities – in pictures

  • Almost 90 hours of footage and 500km later, conservationists hope to have much clearer ideas on how to protect the sea lions

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    Take a tour of the South Australian seabed on the back of a sea lion - video

  • A fox runs through flames

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a feisty sea lion, a retiring elephant and a fleeing fox

  • A pair of harvest mice greet each other on wheat stems in Dorset, UK

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: an escaped tortoise, friendly harvest mice and a giraffe on the move

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