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Environment

  • The sky is orange as a firefighter works to contain the wildfire with a hose

    A ‘catastrophic’ start to wildfire season in Oregon sparks alarm

    The state’s wildfires have already torched more than 1m acres. Experts say heat, dry conditions and lightning are to blame
  • People shop in a grocery store in Washington DC.

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

  • a red sign that says stop extreme heat danger in front of sand dunes

    Man gets third-degree burns from walking on sand dunes in Death Valley

  • An oil refinery spews pollution with the city of Houston, Texas, in the background.

    UN chief urges wealthy countries to beat fossil fuel ‘addiction’ amid expansions

  • People use umbrellas to block the sun while waiting to take a photo at the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign Monday, July 8, 2024, in Las Vegas.

    Life at 115F: a sweltering summer pushes Las Vegas to the brink

  • Mountain peak in grey clouds

    Yosemite hiker slips on cables in Half Dome and falls to death during storm

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  • Beautiful autumn colours over the rolling countryside of Dartmoor National Park

    Prince William could overturn king’s windfarm ban as he orders renewable energy review for estate

  • A tourist shades himself beneath an umbrella at San Nicolas viewpoint in front of La Alhambra

    Extreme heat poses ‘real risk’ to Spain’s mass tourism industry

    Public health adviser says higher temperatures caused by climate crisis pose danger for visitors not used to them
  • Ana Toni, Ed Miliband and Mukhtar Babayev speaking on a grand staircase against their national flags

    Ed Miliband says Labour will honour pledge of £11.6bn in overseas climate aid

    Energy secretary seeks to reestablish UK as a global leader on the climate crisis with meeting of Cop presidents
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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 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?

  • a person walks across a flooded street

    ‘It is devastating’: unprecedented floods in US strain small businesses

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Our unequal earth

  • 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
  • A man wearing a baseball cap stoops down and reaches into a plastic bag to collect cans and bottles.

    He ‘redeems’ the trash New Yorkers throw away, finding value – and opportunity – in waste

  • A large grassy field with three robotic weedkillers moving through openings

    Could robot weedkillers replace the need for pesticides?

  • Reem Assil with Arabic bread out of the oven

    For Palestinian restaurateurs in the US, it’s not just about the food: ‘We have to prove we’re human’

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The age of extinction

  • 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

  • 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
  • Two donkeys eating something from a pile of rubbish that includes plastic bottles and food wrappers

    Donkeys in Kenya are dying with stomachs full of plastic – and other animals are at risk

    With little grass for grazing on the island of Lamu, donkeys are rummaging through rubbish – and scientists now fear it is a global problem affecting many species
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Seascape

  • 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

    • An elderly man with white hair and a beard being led in handcuffs by an official

      Supporters of arrested Sea Shepherd founder say parallels with Julian Assange are ‘disturbing’

    • A woman in diving gear on the deck of a boat

      I’m obsessed with ocean sounds: ‘I can’t see but I can hear the whole reef, like an orchestra’

    • Two people stand before a long line of stranded whales on a deserted beach under a grey and cloudy sky

      How to solve a mass stranding: what caused 77 healthy whales to die on a Scottish beach?

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Opinion

  • 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
  • Adam Morton

    Climate protesters won’t be deterred by fines, jail or political mixed messages on the environment

    Adam Morton
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Multimedia

  • 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

  • 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

    In western Kenya, wild giraffes are being relocated to the Ruko Conservancy to maintain peace between the Pokot and Ilchamus communities
  • 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

  • California researchers set up webcam to collect data on rattlesnakes without disturbing them

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    Rattlesnake 'mega den' with as many as 2,000 snakes livestreaming from Colorado – video

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