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Environment

  • Mud and debris from powerful storm

    Atmospheric river to wallop California as study finds storms getting worse

    Authorities are preparing for flooding and debris flows after recent wildfires have stripped vegetation from hillsides
  • smoke in air

    Trump officials to reconsider whether greenhouse gases cause harm amid climate rollbacks

  • people protest oil executives

    US energy industry’s climate retreat is putting profits over people, advocates say

  • a composite image showing a man in a suit and emissions rising from a smokestack at an oil refinery

    Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda could keep the world hooked on oil and gas

  • A bald eagle sits in a tree

    Trump orders likely to drive species’ extinction, wildlife advocates warn

  • A worker sprinkles fertilizer around young grapefruit trees in the Indian River Citrus District on Florida's east coast.

    Controlled-release fertilizers can spread microplastics on US cropland – study

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Latest news

  • Rainbow lorikeets gathering on a fence post

    Dead and dying Port Pirie birds and bats exposed to lead at 3,000 times acceptable levels

  • Flesh footed Shearwater chick resting on the beach at Lord Howe Island

    Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows

    Blood tests on migratory chicks fed plastics by their parents show neurodegeneration, as well as cell rupture and stomach lining decay
  • Brian Shaw on the shore with loch behind him

    Balance of power: Loch Ness hydro storage schemes fuel local anxiety

    As energy firms race to meet challenges of storing power, critics worry about fluctuations in the depth of the loch
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America's dirty divide

  • 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

  • tractor sprays substance on field of green produce

    US-funded ‘social network’ attacking pesticide critics shuts down after Guardian investigation

  • A composite of researchers collecting dust samples from a window sill, the Zinc Nacional plant and a woman looking at a chest X-ray.

    Mexico authorities order factory cleanup after Guardian toxic waste investigation

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Our unequal earth

  • a handful of round, rainbow-colored candies

    At least a dozen US states rush to ban common food dyes, citing health risks

  • people sitting at a table

    USDA cuts more than $1bn in local food purchases for schools, food banks

  • Cartoon-like illustration of a meat and potato dish.

    This food researcher is on a mission to make fake meat taste better. Will she succeed?

  • ‘Corporate consolidation is a key culprit behind egg price spikes.’

    $5 a dozen: major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike US prices, new report finds

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The age of extinction

  • Large cacti in the Atacama desert

    A cacti-smuggling case with a prickly end: the novel way courts are making poachers pay

  • A small elephant walking behind an older one photographed at night

    The secret life of the Congo rainforest – in pictures

    Using high-definition camera traps on trails in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki national park, Will Burrard-Lucas, a photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, has captured Africa’s most elusive and rarely seen animals
  • Joseph Stiglitz

    Allowing foreign firms to sue governments for lost profits is legal terrorism – it must end

    Joseph Stiglitz
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Seascape

  • An older woman on a beach holds a wooden sign with a mangrove plant and the words 'Guardianas vigilando' painted on it

    The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business

  • Two men on a fishing boat

    ‘Slavish’ catch limits ignored scientific advice, say conservationists in case against Defra

    • A young woman in a colourful top sits on a large rock by a beach

      ‘The entire coastline will be cemented over’: the tiny Italian town set to become a dock for giant cruise ships

    • Orange and spotty slug

      A gorgeous flash of colour in a murky loch: how nudibranchs won my heart

    • Aerial picture shows villagers looking at a dead sperm whale in shallow water.

      Surge in marine heatwaves costs lives and billions in storm damage – study

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Opinion

  • partial solar eclipse with birds

    The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer

    Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann
  • Control The Cyclones cartoon pixie

    A bloke at the dog park said the government was controlling the cyclones. He is accidentally sort of correct

  • Flooding at Cabarita Beach, northern New South Wales

    In the middle of cyclone preparation I found a baby bird – one tiny, wild life amid the wind and rain

    Jessie Cole
  • Adam Morton

    As Trump attacks US science agencies, ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred ushers in a fresh wave of climate denial in Australia

    Adam Morton
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Multimedia

  • ‘Good news’ as NSW northern rivers flood waters recede, Chris Minns says – video

  • NSW premier Chris Minns stresses that evacuation centres set up for former Tropical Cyclone Alfred will be closed once the storm threat is over
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    Cyclone Alfred evacuation centres 'not a solution for homelessness', NSW premier says – video

    NSW premier Chris Minns stresses that evacuation centres set up for former Tropical Cyclone Alfred will be closed once the storm threat is over
  • A woman calls her dog beside flood water

    Water, water everywhere: the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Alfred – in pictures

    Millions of people in northern NSW and south-east Queensland are bunkering down for dangerous conditions
  • Yinna Higuera Traces series.

    This land is your land: leaf portraits of Ecuador’s female farmers – in pictures

  • A red colobus monkey in the Gambia.

    Week in wildlife: a curious monkey, a Dorset beaver and a football rat

  • The centre of Tropical Cyclone Alfred was expected to cross over the Moreton Bay Islands on Saturday morning before crossing the mainland coast, most likely between Noosa and Beenleigh, later on Saturday
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    Before and after: the beaches in the path of Tropical Cyclone Alfred – video

  • Sea foam generated by rough seas ahead of cyclone Alfred at Boulders Beach near Lennox Head

    Tropical Cyclone Alfred approaches the Queensland coast – in pictures

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