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Environment

  • Children play next to a fire hydrant

    Cold showers and ‘farmers’ hours’: how readers stay cool in a heatwave

    Air conditioning isn’t always enough to keep you safe – but people across the US have hacks to handle extreme heat
  • Sick sea lion on beach comforted by volunteer wearing blue gloves and black boots

    Sick sea lions stranded on California coast as experts fear algae poisoning

  • A bird's-eye view of a person standing beside a lake

    Utah’s Great Salt Lake rings climate alarm bells over release of 4.1m tons of carbon dioxide

  • workers in white hazmat suits and reflective vests clean up a beach

    Harris is ‘perfect person’ to prosecute big oil, climate advocates say

  • Trinidad, California, tree sitters, protest logging during time of coronavirus Covid 19 Los Angeles Times photographer Carolyn Cole<br>SCOTIA, CA - APRIL 16: In Scotia, California, the Humbolt Redwood Company sawmill is not operating due to the coronavirus, but logging is still happening and trees are piling up in Scotia. Scotia on Thursday, April 16, 2020 in Scotia, CA. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

    US Forest Service failing to protect old growth trees from logging, critics say

  • a fire rages in a forest

    Human remains found in burned house in Colorado as wildfires torch US west

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CO2 tracker

Latest news

  • A man with binoculars standing by a fenced-off field

    Ecologist taking on MoD to protect skylarks says he has faced threats and assault

  • A dolphin half out of the water in the River Thames with a few dinghies anchored nearby and a building and trees in the background

    Charity appeals for people to stay away from dolphin in Thames

    Rescue body says dolphin spotted on Thursday may be further disoriented by human interference
  • A danger warning sign at Montrose links

    ‘This is climate change’: Scottish beach eroding by 7 metres a year

    Centuries-old Montrose golf links falling into the sea and town at risk of flooding as coastal erosion accelerates
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Big oil uncovered

  • 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

  • A very thin woman raises a plastic bottle to her lips, in full sun with a blue tarp behind her.

    Lawyers could charge big oil with homicide after 2023 Arizona heatwave

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America's dirty divide

  • 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

  • a woman sits on her front porch

    Era of rapidly intensifying hurricanes throws evacuation plans into disarray

  • Paramedics wheel a person on a stretcher from an ambulance into a hospital

    Asphalt burns, delirium, body bags: extreme heat overwhelms ERs across US

  • people hold green, black and yellow signs as person standing in front of podium speaks

    Car camping and fighting wildfires: what are the new US climate jobs?

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Our unequal earth

  • 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

  • People shop in a grocery store in Washington DC.

    Your food is more expensive – are US corporate profits to blame?

  • A child points to a row of cartoon-emblazoned macaroni and cheese containers.

    Why is it so hard to get ultra-processed foods out of our diets? A lack of time

    Lindsey Smith Taillie
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The age of extinction

  • A guerrilla with a machine gun wearing a Farc-EP armband.

    Colombian guerrillas withdraw threat to disrupt UN biodiversity summit

  • A young black woman with a pangolin sitting on her shoulder smiles at the camera

    ‘They are so handsome’: the unusual day in the life of a pangolin carer

    At a wildlife centre in Mozambique, trafficked animals are fed, nursed, taken for walks and eventually released back to the wild. Vet Mércia Ângela describes what it’s like to bond with these rare and charismatic mammals
  • One of the largest elephant in in the world. Craig the super tusker just outside Amboseli national park in Kenya.

    Trophy hunting: can killing and conservation go hand in hand? - podcast

    A series of super tusker elephant killings has sparked a bitter international battle over trophy hunting and its controversial, often counterintuitive role in conservation. Biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston speaks to Amy Dickman, professor of wildlife conservation at the University of Oxford, about why this debate has become so divisive, and the complexities of allowing killing in conservation
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Seascape

  • 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

  • A long thin atoll around a lagoon

    Inside the battle for top job that will decide the future of deep-sea mining

    • A white plastic bag on a beach with the sea behind

      Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches down 80% since charge introduced

    • Close up of a saltwater crocodile's eye in the Mangroves

      Roots and refuge: the year’s best mangrove images – in pictures

    • A Teahupo’o wave crashes down

      Point break? Why sharing its ‘secret’ wave with the Olympics could cost a tiny Tahitian village dear

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Opinion

  • Graham Readfearn

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

    Graham Readfearn
  • Helen Sullivan

    A hairy caterpillar: a ginger toupee, twitching cartoonishly

    Helen Sullivan
  • Emma Beddington

    Raging, radical and ready for change: France’s angry green women are an inspiration to us all

    Emma Beddington
  • a home damaged from a hurricane

    ‘Antidotes to despair’: five things we’ve learned from the world’s best climate journalists

    Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
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Multimedia

  • 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

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Storm unleashes torrential rain and strong winds that have claimed at least three lives and forced authorities to shut schools and offices

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    Typhoon Gaemi makes landfall in Taiwan and brings floods to Manila – video

    Storm unleashes torrential rain and strong winds that have claimed at least three lives and forced authorities to shut schools and offices
  • A boy touches a baby giraffe in western Kenya

    Giraffe relocation in Kenya – in pictures

  • A seagull

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: warthog drama, a fox at the museum and our rarest whale

  • Timber-framed homes nestling in the rugged countryside of the Isle of Harris, Scotland

    Eco homes near the sea for sale in Great Britain – in pictures

  • The Canadian rapper Drake shared footage of his home submerged in flood water after storms hit Toronto

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    Record rainfall hits parts of Toronto – video

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