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Environment

  • a man walks in the crosswalk of a snowy street

    Polar vortex expected to bring snow, ice and brutal cold to most of US

    Millions from Kansas to Florida will be hit by wintry blast with potential for ‘disaster’ next week, meteorologists say
  • people with their arms around each other looking out

    California tribes celebrate historic dam removal: ‘More successful than we ever imagined’

  • A pile of pistachios in a hand

    Is pistachio the new pumpkin spice? Why production of the nut is booming in California

  • Whales in sea

    Grieving killer whale who carried calf’s body spotted again with dead baby

  • a manatee swims underwater

    Florida’s manatees are actually relative newcomers, historical research suggests

  • Trump, wearing a suit, speaks at a podium, an American flag behind him

    Republican-run states see opportunity to push extreme policies under Trump

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  • Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal.

    ‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows

  • The Mini Cooper Electric on the production line at the BMW Mini plant in Oxford.

    Record number of electric cars were sold in UK during 2024

    Environmental groups urge government to keep tougher green targets as industry argues they are unsustainable
  • A woman runs against the direction of a crowd of protesters who have their fists raised and are holding placards

    ‘A look into the future’: TV drama about Danish climate refugees divides opinion

    Families Like Ours has become national talking point but some scientists say events depicted could not happen
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  • A pool of oil surrounded by dry vegetation

    Oil and gas firms operating in Colorado falsified environmental impact reports

  • an industrial facility with trees and a body of water in the foreground

    ‘I have to live in a cocoon’: locals in Pennsylvania feel ‘sacrificed’ for Shell plastics plant

  • smoke coming out of a factory

    Big oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as early as 1950s, memos show

  • a student walks on a university campus

    University of Toronto’s environment school cuts financial ties to fossil fuels

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America's dirty divide

  • A before and after of what an amusement park would look like before and after flooding

    How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater

  • the outside of an apartment building

    Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it’s time to use them

  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/paraquat-parkinsons-disease-research-syngenta-weedkiller

    Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics

  • a brick building with a/c units on the outside

    93F and no electricity: why some US utilities can cut power despite heatwaves

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Our unequal earth

  • a cashier uses a register in a restaurant

    Vegan no more: a beloved Asheville plant-based cafe pivots to stay afloat post-hurricane

  • Color illustration of a plate with food on it labeled with prices.

    Can everyone eat for the planet? I shopped at Dollar Store for a week to find out

  • side by side images of a plate of food, two people and a shelf

    ‘The taste of our home’: inside an Afghan restaurant in Arizona run by former refugees

  • two white turkeys stand on a green lawn

    The short, painful life of your Thanksgiving turkey

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  • A picture of concentric circles of dead birds arranged according to size and colour, with the largest in the centre.

    Live ones go in paper bags, dead ones in the freezer: the volunteers saving birds that fly into windows

  • Aerial view of a container filled with illegally obtained wild bird eggs seized by Essex police, UK

    Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history

    Part of an international initiative to combat organised wildlife crime, similar seizures in Australia and Norway have recovered more than 50,000 eggs
  • Two shaggy musk oxen, with big curved horns, look at the camera from a ridge

    They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat?

    Rising temperatures are pushing these Arctic mammals ever farther into Greenland’s north. But eventually there will be nowhere left for them to go
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  • The mouth of a baleen whale emerging from the water, with barnacles visible on its nose

    ‘Extraordinary longevity’: great whales can live a lot longer than we thought – if we leave them alone

  • Nathalie Frost holds two broken shells up to inspect them on a beach

    I’m obsessed with broken shells: they are marked by life, like our skin

    • A grey lying on sand with her flipper resting on a pup with streaks of blood on its white fur

      ‘Britain’s wildlife safari’: baby boom in Norfolk as seal colonies flourish

    • Mahyuddin and Ema Listyana

      Indian Ocean tsunami: how survivors found love after Boxing Day disaster

    • Five people cluster around a large dolphin-like whale on a beach as breakers crash against the shore

      Dissecting the world’s rarest whale – in pictures

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Opinion

  • Lucy McCormick

    Lab-grown meat is the future for pet food – and that’s a huge opportunity for Britain

    Lucy McCormick
  • The Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot at night

    The Guardian view on a carbon-free economy: no just transition in sight – yet

  • Nils Pratley

    Early phase-out of full hybrid vehicles may be a political risk too far for UK ministers

    Nils Pratley
  • A young boy looking out to sea

    Each year I insist we visit the same beach. Repetition tricks the mind into thinking a thing will last for ever

    Jenny Sinclair
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Multimedia

  • A young chimpanzee eats on an island during an outing in the Douala-Edea Natural Park in Marienberg, Cameroon.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a rare warbler, a young chimp and sheltering joeys

  • Alan Jones walks past waiting media as he leaves a police station in Sydney on 18 November

    Australia’s best agency photography for 2024 – in pictures

    Protests, Taylor Swift and chubby penguins are all part of the best images from the wire agencies in 2024
  • A picture perfect robin framed in holly puts on a show for the Christmas season in Ipswich, UK

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a seasonal robin and newborn lion cubs in Bedfordshire

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Ailanthus Webworm, Atteva aurea . 2022

    On a wing and a prayer: the hidden beauty of insect’s flight – in pictures

  • Riley Swanson (left) and Chico Shaw watching the sunset over the Roma Southern Road in Queensland.

    Guardian Australia’s best photos of 2024 – in pictures

  • A marmoset dangles upside down by its hind legs, enjoying a banana at Forte Duque de Caxias in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Week in wildlife in pictures: a dangling marmoset, rare leopard babies and an eyelash snake

  • A modern home in Clapham, London built alongside traditional period townhouses.

    Homes for sale with an air source heat pump – in pictures

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