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Environment

  • a fire burns in the grand canyon

    Two wildfires in US west spur ‘fire clouds’ with erratic weather systems

    Containment slips for megafire in Grand Canyon and large blaze in Utah as hot and dry weather fans flames
  • Search and rescue workers prepare a raft on a flooded river

    Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation

  • Monarch butterflies

    Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study

  • Memorial to flood victims

    Top Texas emergency official says he was sick and asleep as deadly floods hit

  • Exhaust pipes on truck

    Trump bids to scrap almost all pollution regulations – can anything stop this?

  • Chinook Salmon in a file shot

    After nearly 100 years, adult winter-run Chinook salmon seen in California river

  • a man pointing to another man

    Elon Musk is turning US liberals off not just Tesla but electric vehicles in general

CO2 tracker

Latest news

  • A thermometer displays a temperature of 31C in Rovaniemi, Finland

    Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave

  • A barrel jellyfish moving through water.

    Unusually high number of jellyfish arrive in UK seas

  • Barclays results<br>epa08215396 (FILE) - The headquarters of Barclays bank in Canary Wharf in London, Britain, 28 June 2012 (reissued 13 February 2020). Barclays on 13 February 2020 released their full year 2019 results, saying the Barclay Group's total 2019 income was 21,632 million pound, net operating income was 19,720 million pound and profit after tax stood at 3,354 million pound. EPA/TAL COHEN *** Local Caption *** 53595601

    Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance

  • Barnaby Joyce

    Joyce and Canavan call for new coal plants to replace renewable energy projects

America's dirty divide

  • wide shot of an industrial landscape in a city

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

  • Graphic

    Mysterious bags of ‘hazardous’ materials appeared in Mexico. Then we found more

  • 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

Our unequal earth

  • Picture of farm

    Self-imposed lockdowns, surveillance fears and forced separations: life for California’s undocumented farmworkers

  • people grocery shopping

    As food prices rise, Mamdani wants public grocery stores in New York. Can it work?

  • a man in a tractor

    ‘Disgraceful step backward’: USDA ends support for Black farmers, saying it ‘sufficiently’ handled discrimination

  • colorful illustration shows immigrant workers disappearing from their workplaces

    How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry – visualized

The age of extinction

  • A man sits on a rock that is covered with wild flowers. He is putting plant samples into a collection book

    ‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants

  • A family group of gorillas lounges amid greenery.

    Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids

  • Illustration of a butterfly, a worm and a fish overlaid with pink to connote a plastic thread moving through the ecosystems.

    The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals – and you

  • A young girl in a summer dress and hat crawls over an artificial snowcapped mountain.

    Polar bears in shopping malls, fibreglass mountains, indoor rainforests: how humans got addicted to faking the natural world

Seascape

  • People attempt to spray water on a stranded beaked whale

    Experts baffled as rarely seen beaked whales involved in series of strandings

  • A snorkeller in a wetsuit filming above brown seaweed

    I’m obsessed with snorkelling in Scotland: starfish below, sea eagles overhead – and it really isn’t that cold

  • Estepona Town Hall cleaning staff use a JCB to remove Rugulopteryx okamurae from a beach.

    Thousands of tons of invasive seaweed ‘overwhelming’ Spanish beaches

  • A waiter at Chart House restaurant in Boston during a ‘wicked’ high tide.

    How flood-ravaged Boston took on the climate deniers – and won

Opinion

  • A wind farm off the coast of Isle Of Man.

    The Guardian view on the green transition: renewables are the future – but countries’ actions must catch up with their promises

  • Simon Jenkins

    He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air

    Simon Jenkins
  • Jason White on water management – cartoon

    Jason White on water management – cartoon

  • The Mayfly riverside pub and River Test in Stockbridge, Hampshire

    The Guardian view on England’s riverbanks: landscapes that everyone should be able to enjoy

    Editorial

Multimedia

  1. A hamerkop bird hitches a ride on a hippo before being shaken off by the grumpy beast in Kenya’s Masai Mara.

    Week in wildlife: a hippo with a hitchhiker, a wallaby jailbreak and a fly on the wall

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  2. People wade in a flooded street in Miyun district, northern Beijing. Images)

    Deadly China floods leave trail of destruction – in pictures

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  3. Water, salt and silt create a never ending and always changing abstract artwork on the surface of Kati Thanda, Lake Eyre.

    Rare water world: Australia’s Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre from the air – in pictures

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