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Environment

  • A GoPro camera under water

    Underwater ‘doorbell’ helps scientists catch coral-eating fish in Florida

    Researchers use innovative cameras to identify fish species hindering coral reef restoration
  • a car drives by an oil refinery

    Line 5, a Trump donor, is profiting off a pipeline deal threatening pollution

  • people walking

    Big oil gathers in Texas – but beneath the bravado, Trump-induced anxiety

  • Coal Power Plant in West Virigina<br>epa11954643 A view of the Harrison Power Station, a coal-fired power plant owned by FirstEnergy that was built in the early 1970s and uses approximately 5 million tons of coal annually, in Haywood, West Virginia, USA, 10 March 2025. President Donald Trump has moved to substantially change the Untied States’ energy policy since taking office in January, including rescinding industry regulations aimed at reducing pollution and promoting coal as potential solution to large energy demands of the Artificial Intelligence computing. EPA/JUSTIN LANE

    Trump’s environmental rule-shredding will put lives at risk, ex-EPA heads say

  • a woman with brown overalls holds a pumpkin as pigs stand by her outside

    Why I quit my homestead dream just as farmer tradwives became mainstream

  • an oil refinery outside at sunset

    Environmental groups sound new alarm as fossil fuel lobby pushes for immunity

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Latest news

  • Dead fish on river bank

    Thousands of fish die in cyclone-hit northern rivers amid reports of eels and crabs fleeing ‘blackwater’

  • Herring gull with worm-like fish in beak

    From profiteroles to moles: project uncovers gulls’ surprising diet

    Salford University findings show gulls are predators – not just opportunists snatching people’s snacks
  • ADRIAN RAMSAY giving a speech outside the Royal Courts of Justice

    Green leader Adrian Ramsay: Labour’s ‘growth v nature’ framing is an outrage

    Co-leader says deprioritisation of net zero is ‘extremely dangerous’ as he rejects ‘nimby-in-chief’ characterisation
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America's dirty divide

  • overhead view of cityscape beside icy river

    Canadians protest imports of US toxic waste amid Trump tariff war

  • Smoke from burning rubber lingers in the air at the Portland International Raceway during a drag racing event in 2023.

    Lawmaker seeks ban of toxic fuel at Portland racetrack after Guardian story

  • tractor sprays substance on field of green produce

    US-funded ‘social network’ attacking pesticide critics shuts down after Guardian investigation

  • A composite of researchers collecting dust samples from a window sill, the Zinc Nacional plant and a woman looking at a chest X-ray.

    Mexico authorities order factory cleanup after Guardian toxic waste investigation

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Our unequal earth

  • A bearded man pours drinks behind a bar

    Covid-19 took their restaurant jobs. They switched careers: ‘I’m making twice as much money now’

  • a handful of round, rainbow-colored candies

    At least a dozen US states rush to ban common food dyes, citing health risks

  • people sitting at a table

    USDA cuts more than $1bn in local food purchases for schools, food banks

  • Cartoon-like illustration of a meat and potato dish.

    This food researcher is on a mission to make fake meat taste better. Will she succeed?

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The age of extinction

  • A ringed peregrine falcon perched on a wooden gatepost

    Decades after peregrines came back from the brink, a new threat emerges

  • Flesh footed Shearwater chick resting on the beach at Lord Howe Island

    Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows

    Blood tests on migratory chicks fed plastics by their parents show neurodegeneration, as well as cell rupture and stomach lining decay
  • Large cacti in the Atacama desert

    A cacti-smuggling case with a prickly end: the novel way courts are making poachers pay

    Two Italian cacti smugglers have been fined for illegally trading plants from Chile – and for the cost of restoring the environment. Conservationists hope more cases will follow
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Seascape

  • A man stands in the street in front of a house

    Exploited, recognised as a slavery victim, now facing deportation: one seafarer’s UK ordeal

  • Evan Ifekoya, Contoured Thoughts, 2019. A man immersed up to his neck in a rock pool by a fjord with flowers around him

    Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas

    • An older woman on a beach holds a wooden sign with a mangrove plant and the words 'Guardianas vigilando' painted on it

      The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business

    • Two men on a fishing boat

      ‘Slavish’ catch limits ignored scientific advice, say conservationists in case against Defra

    • A young woman in a colourful top sits on a large rock by a beach

      ‘The entire coastline will be cemented over’: the tiny Italian town set to become a dock for giant cruise ships

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Opinion

  • Ed Miliband

    The global battle against the climate crisis needs China. I’m visiting Beijing, and that’s what I’ll tell them

    Ed Miliband
  • woman with wombat

    Attacking a young tourist over her treatment of a wombat is hypocritical – and misses the point

    Georgie Purcell
  • Isabel Losada

    Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead

    Isabel Losada
  • partial solar eclipse with birds

    The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer

    Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann
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Multimedia

  • Gull eats starfish

    Octopus? Ice cream? Is there anything gulls don’t eat? – in pictures

  • A Sumatran tiger, Indonesia.

    Week in wildlife: leapfrogging monkeys, a strolling tortoise and Lincolnshire seals

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • The Lewis Glacier in Mount Kenya national park.

    An elephant buffet, a Lowry and Kenya’s melting glacier: photos of the day – Thursday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • 'The immediate threat to the community has been reduced,' premier says – but SES warns residents to remain vigilant
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    ‘Good news’ as NSW northern rivers flood waters recede, Chris Minns says – video

  • NSW premier Chris Minns stresses that evacuation centres set up for former Tropical Cyclone Alfred will be closed once the storm threat is over
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    Cyclone Alfred evacuation centres 'not a solution for homelessness', NSW premier says – video

  • A woman calls her dog beside flood water

    Water, water everywhere: the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Alfred – in pictures

  • Yinna Higuera Traces series.

    This land is your land: leaf portraits of Ecuador’s female farmers – in pictures

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