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  • a wild horse in an open field

    ‘Incredible’ news for bears and wild horses as US shifts preservation plans

    National Park Service will reintroduce bears to Washington’s North Cascades and won’t remove horses from South Dakota park
  • A satellite map from Google Earth of a Tyson processing plant in Dakota City, Nebraska

    Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes

  • a woman stands in a field

    Activist wins Goldman prize for effort to clean up California trucking and railway sectors

  • A commercial fisherman collects sockeye salmon

    Alaska has a plan to save its salmon but some Native leaders are wary

  • a flood sign during a storm

    Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear

  • smoke emerging from a plant at sunset

    New rule compels US coal-fired power plants to capture emissions – or shut down

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  • A prop depicting a water tap with cascading plastic bottles is situated outside a conference centre

    Developed countries accused of bowing to lobbyists at plastic pollution talks

  • Cambridge’s winning crews stand by dirty water at the finish of this year’s Boat Race on the Thames.

    UK water sports alliance calls on government to end ‘death-knell’ pollution

    British Rowing, British Triathlon and Swim England are among the sports demanding the government go ‘further and faster’ in tackling water pollution
  • Gouldian Finch eating gamba seed. Lee Point , Darwin. Australia

    Bulldozers in Darwin begin destroying habitat of hundreds of bird species as Lee Point/Binybara construction begins

    Crossbench MPs and conservationists say clearing exemplifies failed environmental reform as endangered species like Gouldian finch face habitat destruction
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  • people hold signs calling attention to climate change

    Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments

  • composite image of a university campus with a tower lined up next to an oil refinery spewing smoke

    Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price

  • An employee handles plastic bottles at a facility

    Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report

  • ‘Basically it’s a propaganda campaign.’

    How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics

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America's dirty divide

  • Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha

    Michigan doctor who revealed Flint water crisis now takes on child poverty

  • A street strewn with downed power lines after Hurricane Laura passed through the area on 27 August 2020 in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

    US seeing rise in climate-related power outages, report says

  • a hazy city skyline

    More than one-third of people in the US exposed to harmful air pollution – report

  • Men standing on a platform lowering a wall panel

    ‘A roof over our people’s heads’: the Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes

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Our unequal earth

  • A mountain of raw sugar is stored in a warehouse in Santa Rosa, Texas, in 2005.

    Megadrought forces end to sugarcane farming in parched Texas borderland

  • Guardian Eggs Title Illo

    Egg labels, egg-splained: from cage-free to free-range, how to eat ethically and economically

  • Dr. Noa Lincoln with native Hawaiian sugarcane on the campus of the University of Hawai'i at HIlo. Undergraduate student Quinn Leggett is studying tropical ag plant production and management.

    Hawaiian scientist quests to find and save the state’s distinctive sugarcanes

  • Two hands hold a ramekin and spoon with a creamy dessert inside.

    Can there be delish dessert with less sugar? Absolutely, say these chefs

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  • Tractors in the streets of Kraków, Poland, as part of a protest against the EU's nature restoration law.

    New EU nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warn

  • Tony Juniper

    Birdsong once signalled the onset of spring on my street – but not this year

    Tony Juniper
  • An elderly woman with her hands on an ancient tree killed by Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia.

    Plant apocalypse: how new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops

    From ancient olive groves to root vegetables, foreign pests introduced via the bloc’s open import system are causing damage worth billions – and outbreaks are on the rise
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  • 20240309-140 Plastic pollution and wildlife on Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, by Karen

    The stream of plastic pollution: could a global treaty help us turn off the tap? – podcast

  • An Atlantic salmon on a petri dish.

    From petri dish to plate: meet the company hoping to bring lab-grown fish to the table

    • The orphaned two-year-old female orca calf swims in a lagoon near Zeballos, British Columbia, on 11 April.

      Orca calf successfully returned to open water after bold rescue in Canada

    • A marine iguana swimming in the sea

      ‘Currents bring life – and plastics’: animals of Galápagos live amid mounds of waste

    • Steve Backshall, the naturalist, scuba dives on the reefs of the Maldives for the BBC’s Our Changing Planet.

      Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of global collapse

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Opinion

  • Adam Morton

    How do we define climate responsibility? Woodside has no answer

    Adam Morton
  • Graham Readfearn

    Dutton’s plan to save Australia with nuclear comes undone when you look between the brushstrokes

    Graham Readfearn
  • Adam Morton

    Albanese’s promised clean economy act has been a long time coming but it’s the right place to start

    Adam Morton
  • Adam Morton

    A big week for climate policy in Australia: what happened and what to make of it

    Adam Morton
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Multimedia

  • ‘The Greens are our enemy’: What is fuelling the far right in Germany?

  • Nuclear power may be a climate-friendly energy source compared with coal and gas, but as the Guardian's Matilda Boseley explains, going nuclear isn't practical for Australia

    Should Australia go nuclear? Why Peter Dutton's plan could be an atomic failure – video

    Nuclear power may be a climate-friendly energy source compared with coal and gas, but as the Guardian's Matilda Boseley explains, going nuclear isn't practical for Australia
  • A giraffe walks through a rainbow at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa.

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a lazy leopard, a moonwalking elephant and hitchhiking ducklings

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Whales have become stranded at Toby Inlet near Dunsborough, more than 250km south of Perth

    160 pilot whales stranded and 26 confirmed dead in Western Australia – video

  • Dead and dying shrubs and trees – some of which are found nowhere else on Earth – line more than 1,000km across the state’s south-west

    Drone video shows Western Australia’s forests dying in heat and drought – video

  • A jackal surrounded by doves leaps for a meal, South Africa

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a hungry jackal, a cat with webbed feet and a cheeky badger

  • Scientists have recorded widespread bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as global heating creates a fourth planet-wide bleaching event

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    Aerial video shows mass coral bleaching on Great Barrier Reef amid global heat stress event – video

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